In a discussion of the debt limit, the Speaker – who has warned that the growing debt is hurting U.S. job creation – asked the President if he is proposing that Congress pass an increase that does not include any spending cuts to help reduce the deficit. The President said, “yes.” The Speaker told the President, “as long as I’m around here, I’m not going to allow a debt ceiling increase without doing something serious about the debt.”

Catch Kevin Wu’s latest comedy program on YouTube, and you might think he’s nothing more than a young Asian American talking to a camera in his bedroom. But almost each of his shows command at least 2 million views — rivaling the nightly TV audiences of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

The announcement was met with a flurry of responses on social media, including hundreds of photos on Instagram and tens of thousands of shares and likes of the original post by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Staff writer Peter Whoriskey wrote Thursday about how more older Americans are employed than ever before.

Are you retired or approaching retirement? Do you want to reenter the workforce? Or are you delaying retirement for financial reasons?

As recently as October 2011, the unemployment rate for college graduates ages 16-24 (there are 16-year-olds with college degrees?) was 8.1 percent — just 0.5 percent lower than the general jobless rate of 8.6 percent.

The dip in stock price comes as the bank faces customer gripes about the its decision to begin charging a $5 monthly fee for debit card transactions. The fees will begin next year and will apply only to debit card purchases, not to ATM withdrawals, online bill pay or mobile phone transfers, The Post’s Ylan Mui reported Thursday.

Earlier this year, T-Mobile announced that it would be consolidating some of its call centers as part of a larger restructuring effort. The company did not specify how the company would be reorganized.

A majority of the newly elected, all-Republican board has threatened to derail the extension of Metrorail out to Dulles Airport and beyond because of a requirement that the general contractor for the project negotiate a “project labor agreement” with local construction unions.

From site to site and topic to topic, comments are consistently a black eye. Despite years of attempts to massage, curate, coax and moderate, the unbridled “discussion,” the Internet still seems mired in the kind of discourse best reserved for a bar brawl. Or that bar’s bathroom wall.

Forget that I never scored an internship or even made time for on-campus job interviews or recruiters. Let’s be honest, I didn’t even try. I didn’t know that I had to.

By the time I graduated, I had in place some pretty good money habits thanks to my grandmother Big Mama. Because of her, I’ve made it my mission to pass on the financial wisdom she taught me.

Since the bureau’s inception, it’s been asking consumers for feedback on issues such as student loans, credit cards and how you’re affected by mandatory arbitration clauses.

My grand­-mother, who was determined to raise me to be a good money manager, didn’t want to hear about the fire I was sent to cover — not yet anyway. Instead, she cut me off, asking if I had gone to the benefits office to arrange for some of my pay to be automatically sent to a savings account, preferably to a credit union. I hadn’t.

Ross left a wonderful personal legacy. He was a good father, friend and coach. He was a dedicated educator who devoted his career to working with children with emotional, developmental and physical disabilities.

For many people, that’s a loaded question. U.S. markets are up more than 100 percent from their 2009 lows, yet many investors are not thrilled by their returns. That’s quite telling and suggests that someone is doing something wrong.

Am I skeptic? But of course. To understand why, let’s consider a few questions: