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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
With the economy in crisis, President-elect Barack Obama urged the new Congress to pass a quick economic stimulus bill, pledged help for the troubled auto industry and blessed the Bush administration's bailout of the financial industry. At a news...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
President-elect Barack Obama Monday unveiled his economic team pick to shore up financial markets and tackle the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression in 1930s...President-elect Barack Obama on Monday put University of California...
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News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
With U.S. stock markets at five year lows, U.S. automakers on the verge of collapse and millions of Americans affected by job cuts and home foreclosures, President-elect Barack Obama named his economic team on Monday. He announced that New York...
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News Source: Belleville News Democract
| about 1 year ago
President-elect Barack Obama named Peter Orszag as his budget director on Tuesday and said his job will be to conduct a thorough review of federal spending programs, "eliminating those programs we don't need and insisting that those we do need...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
At a news conference Tuesday, Obama also is expected to announce that he has selected Peter Orszag as his nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to two sources close to Obama's transition operation. Orszag, the head of...
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News Source: The Courier-Journal
| about 1 year ago
Citing an "economic crisis of historic proportions," President-elect Barack Obama urged Congress to pass a costly stimulus bill as quickly as possible. The rare pre-inaugural call to action was delivered as the Bush administration approved fresh...
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News Source: National Public Radio
| about 1 year ago
Morning Edition , November 25, 2008 · For the second time in as many days, President-elect Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with reporters to discuss the sagging economy. On Monday, he sketched out plans for a massive government spending effort...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 year ago
President-elect Barack Obama promised on Monday to jolt the faltering U.S. economy with a costly stimulus package next year and introduced the team that will help him navigate the global financial crisis. Obama, who warned again that the economy...
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News Source: Money Morning
| about 1 year ago
Paulson Jr. was leaked over the weekend, and was reported by Money Morning yesterday. Master of Arts degree in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1985. He also...
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News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 year ago
President-elect Barack Obama promised on Monday to jolt the faltering US economy with a costly stimulus package next year and introduced the team that will help him navigate the global financial crisis. Obama, who warned again that the economy would...