WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chief executives from corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Deloitte LLP met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday and offered support for resolving U.S. fiscal problems with an approach that included higher tax rates for wealthy Americans.

End-of-year expiration would hurt homeowners, economy.

Of the many Dec. 31 deadlines facing Washington, at least one is getting pushed out, according to regulatory officials: The final draft of the Volcker Rule.

November 28, 2012: Remarks of Edward J. DeMarco, Acting Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Before The Exchequer Club, Washington, D.C., "Recent Accomplishments and a Look Ahead at the Future of Housing Finance"

Geithner Meets With Congress Leaders Tomorrow, Treasury Says Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner will meet with leaders in Congress tomorrow "to continue discussing the actions we need to take to keep our economy growing and find a balanced approach to reduce our deficit," the Department said in a ...

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Speech at the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum, New Haven, Connecticut

Republican House Speaker John Boehner expressed optimism Wednesday that a deal with President Barack Obama could be reached to avert a plunge down the "fiscal cliff." He said he's willing to put revenues on the table if they are accompanied by spending cuts.

The Beige Book, normally not a source of suspenseful reading, is out today. But there are real splits emerging over quantitative easing that might make it worthwhile to read the reports carefully.

The war against people who work for a living in this country continues with the "Grand Bargain" that will slash social spending by trillions on programs that benefit the most vulnerable among us and also "reform" Social Security and Medicare. We at Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? see the cruel irony in this brazen attempt to further erode living standards for the 98 percent. Today, some 70 percent of Americans pay more in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes! Social Security and Medicare are not "entitlement" programs. Hard-working Americans along with their employers pay into this system their entire working lives. But rather than tax corporations and the super rich by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire, apparently President Obama, Congress and the corporate-financial class on Wall Street would prefer instead to "balance" the budget on the backs of working Americans. Sen. Bernie Sanders points out in HEIST the callous indifference inherent in Washington's march toward austerity: "Let's go after little kids, let's go after the elderly, let's go after the sick, let's go after the most vulnerable, but apparently in the Senate we can't ask Chevron to pay taxes." How much more can working people give up before they rise up? The tally so far? Across the board, wages have stagnated since the mid-'70s, more than 40 million good-paying jobs with benefits have been shipped overseas, trade agreements that benefit the corporate and shareholder classes prevail, employers are asking workers to pay more for health care, risky 401(k)s have replaced guaranteed defined benefit pensions, and now the 1 percent is going after the one element of FDR's New Deal that remains -- Social Security! Austerity as described by Webster: difficult economic conditions created by government measures to reduce a budget deficit, especially by reducing public expenditures. So what is in effect here is the Golden...

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wednesday, tracking losses in Europe as investors grew concerned once again over the "fiscal cliff."

Deutsche Bank Sued Over Home Mortgage-Backed Securities Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's largest lender, was sued by a trustee claiming that some securities sold by a unit of the bank were backed by home-mortgage loans taken out by fraudulent borrowers. DB Structured Products Inc.'s pool of more than 1,500 ...

TORONTO/BERLIN (Reuters) - Deep divisions at the Federal Reserve were on display on Tuesday, just two weeks before the U.S. central bank's next policy-setting meeting, with one top Fed official pushing for more easing, and another advocating limits.