At long last, a team. And it's formidable. With Tim Geithner eyed for the head of the Treasury Department, President-elect Barack ObamaBarack Obama has chosen a fellow already knee-deep...
President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name more appointees to his economic team Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal newspaper reports that Mr. Obama will name former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to head a new economic advisory panel.
Naomi Klein , Investigative journalist and author of “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Robert Kuttner , Veteran economic journalist and the cofounder and coeditor of The American Prospect magazine. His latest book is called ...
President-elect Barack Obama will press his aggressive plans to deal with his nation's woes Wednesday when he holds his third press conference in as many days focused on the stricken US economy. Obama is also expected to round out his economic...
America has never seen anything quite like this: the president and president-elect acting like co-presidents, consulting and cooperating on the day's biggest crises. At the center of it all has been the flailing economy, and both the outgoing Bush...
The sentiment might have been a little more convincing, though, if Obama hadn't made that remark at his second news conference of the week; a third is scheduled for Wednesday, and at this rate, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if he popped up on TV...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
In a notable shift, congressional leaders and officials of the incoming Obama administration are actively trying to retire that term and use the more marketable "economic recovery program" as the descriptor for the multibillion-dollar economic...
News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
We are not going back to business as usual when it comes to our budget," Obama said in naming Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, as his White House budget chief. "Budget reform is not an option...As bailouts and nasty economic...
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...
Obama's choice of a team of rivals says much about the president he will be Tough, unsentimental, no naive liberal: the next leader has picked people to carry out his vision. But will Hillary play ball? Barack Obama has already broken one promise.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. (Photo: Reuters) Some are born radical...That is the way with Ben Bernanke, as he struggles to rescue the American financial system from collapse. Early every morning, weekends included, Bernanke...
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