This story about 55 tax breaks about to expire starts in an unlikely place: Barn 63 at the Belmont Race Track in Belmont, N.Y., at the stall of a pretty brown horse with a white star on her forehead.

Recommendations from senators to the Finance Committee as to which tax breaks they favor and which they oppose will be kept secret.

Los Angeles is one of many cities to offer tax breaks and financial incentives to attract new businesses.

Republican governors and giant e-commerce retailer Amazon now back Congressional legislation to tax online transactions.

Gallup data shows the employment picture is improving slightly, and that many Americans support President Obama's plan to create tax breaks that bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

This final note today. Politics and the economy once again. Forget all that talk you've been hearing about nothing passing Congress 'til after the…