CHICAGO – With the economy in crisis, President-elect Barack ObamaBarack Obama urged the new Congress to pass a quick economic stimulus bill, pledged help for the troubled...
Axelrod said the president-elect's transition team was gratified by the stock market's positive reaction to Obama's choice of Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary. The market soared almost 500 points on Friday with word Obama had ...
"I don't know what the number is going to be, but it's going to be a big number," Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee said. "It has to be. The point is to, kind of, get people back on track and startle the thing into submission." ...
As a candidate, Obama also said he wanted to eliminate Bush-era tax cuts on the wealthy. Many economists caution that raising taxes can make a recession worse, and the president-elect said he would await a recommendation from his ...
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As expected, Obama confirmed the appointments of Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers as the Director of our National Economic Council, Christina Romer as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors; and Melody Barnes ...
I voted for Obama knowing that his tax plan would significantly raise my taxes. I did so, because (a) there were other important issues and (b) I fully expected that tax legislation that was to be enacted (if any) would be far different ...
The money that Obama is taking from these folks could be used to buy a second home, an investment property, a building, a business, a mutual fund, a stock, or even just simply be deposited into their bank. We no longer live in a world ...
Obama Likely To Retain Tax Cut For The Wealthy. I wonder if all those who slammed Obama for wanting to "raise taxes" will applaud him if he delays his promise to rescind the Bush tax cuts on upper income Americans. John | Power Line ...
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