Fiscal cliff

A deliberately fear-inducing financial-crisis term, describing the moment in the US when the Bush tax cuts would expire and spending would be reduced. In the event, the ship of state sailed serenely into the fiscal cliff without being smashed to smithereens.

One Democrat says his party erred in ‘not going over the fiscal cliff’

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