Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.

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By law, the dollar amounts for a variety of tax provisions, affecting virtually every taxpayer, must be revised each year to keep pace with inflation. New dollar amounts affecting 2012 returns, filed by most taxpayers in early 2013, include the following…

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“They China have made possible systematic stealing of intellectual property of American companies and have not been very aggressive to put in place the basic protections for property rights that every serious economy needs over time,” Geithner told a forum in Washington.

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I’m up to my eyeballs everyday in the latest financial and economic news because it’s my job. That said, I wasn’t surprised at all when I read (and I have read it many times before) that many economists feel that the economy would be better off if policy makers stepped aside and let the natural [...]

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The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to confirm Gen. David Petraeus as the new commander of forces in Afghanistan. His nomination by President Obama to fill the role left vacant by the unceremonious exit of Gen. Stanley McChrystal was never in doubt …

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A new Marist poll finds 57% of voters believe President Obama’s handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is either the same or worse than George W. Bush’s handling of Katrina. This includes a third of Democrats, 63% of independents and, not surprisingl…

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For now it’s a web video. But come October, something like this will likely be on TV. The Democratic National Committee offers a preview of the fall campaign, in which the party will highlight Republican opposition to reform the Wall Street practices t…

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On Politics Nation, Kyle Trygstad reports on the Democrats’ scramble for votes for Wall Street reform legislation. On RCM, Steven Malanga writes that even though banks have tightened underwriting standards and regulators are supposed to be getting toug…

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