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News Source: Arizona Daily star
| about 1 year ago
In the old days — from the Venetian Republic to, oh, the Bear Stearns rescue — if you wanted to get rich, you did it the Warren Buffett way: You learned to read balance sheets...You don't anticipate Intel's third-quarter earnings; instead, you...
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News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| about 1 year ago
The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression" seems to have become a standard phrase in press accounts of the economy today. Most economists agree that the United States has fallen into a severe recession...The scale and severity of the...
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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: The Daily Telegraph
| about 1 year ago
His political hero, president Abraham Lincoln, established the holiday "in one of the darkest years of our nation's history", 1863, during the US Civil War, Mr Obama said. "This Thanksgiving also takes place at a time of great trial for our people,"...
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News Source: Weekly Arham
| about 1 year ago
We all know it is the establishment that comes first in United States politics. Obama's presidency could easily be sabotaged by the powers that put him there...He would never have made it past the first, obscure primary without his army of selfless,...
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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke— And Democracy resumed her reign (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne). Some of Barack Obama’s more idealistic supporters might...
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News Source: Star Tribune
| about 1 year ago
President-elect Barack Obama sought to reassure the nation and nervous holiday shoppers about the ailing economy Wednesday as beleaguered stores braced for their most important month of the year. "Help is on the way," he proclaimed at his third news...
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News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 year ago
Volcker, as chairman of Obama 's new Economic Recovery Advisory Board, will join New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy F. Geithner , who will lead the Treasury Department , and former Treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers , who will run...
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News Source: Miami Herald
| about 1 year ago
President-elect Barack Obama essentially said Wednesday that he is the change, striving to assure Americans that he'll shake up Washington despite filling his administration with old hands from the Clinton administration and the capital's corridors...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
Few prominent economists will say it, but to me it looks and feels like we are in another Great Depression or a reasonable facsimile. The current meltdown is dubbed a financial crisis. But a rose by any other name would still inflict the same...