Fiscal cliff is hardly the end of the world
Photo credit: Getty Images | Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke at a news conference in Washington (Sept. 13, 2012)
Maybe it's a funny coincidence, but threats of budgetary apocalypse in the nation's capital seem to keep cropping up in sync with unearthly end-of-the-world scenarios.
Remember May 21, 2011, the day radio Bible interpreter Harold Camping predicted for the Rapture? The day passed, and life went on. By summer, fiscal Armageddon loomed -- in the form of a partisan standoff over the nation's debt...
