It’s the end of 2012, and the US political system is tied in knots over next year’s “fiscal cliff” — a budget impasse that can only be solved with bipartisan agreement. (And the world is watching.) Adam Davidson, cohost of “Planet Money,” shares surprising data that shows how it might just be solved.
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