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Obama's job creation speech at Brookings Institution (full transcript)
Burlington :: VT :: USA | about 22 hours ago
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President Barack Obama proposed on Tuesday small business tax cuts, fresh infrastructure spending and energy efficiency rebates to boost jobs, but there were few details on the scale or cost of the measures. Below is the full transcript of his remarks...
Tags: Burlington, Financial crises, Great Depression, Political positions of Barack Obama, Subprime mortgage crisis solutions debate, Barack Obama, Business Finance, Subprime mortgage crisis, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Guest commentary | Small businesses are key to the economic recovery
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Believe it. The small-business economy will pull our country “up by our bootstraps” from the depths of the worst economic environment since the Great Depression. The spirit of American entrepreneurialism, after all, is deeply rooted in our societal identity.
Tags: small businesses, American, stimulus funding, economic recovery, early childhood, construction playthings, Kansas City, Small Business Administration, Financial crises, Great Depression, Business Finance, Corporation, Small business, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Vail Valley Voices: Tough holiday agenda
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility Afghanistan, Obama is going to send more troops (about 35,000, bringing the total in Afghanistan to 100,000) to fight an unwinnable war in a country that has no chance to become a sustainable democracy. Many great warriors and nations have tried to conquer...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul, Business cycle, Macroeconomics, Recessions, Health economics, Great Depression, Economic disasters, Unemployment, Barack Obama, Healthcare reform, Social Issues, Late-2000s recession, Presidency of Barack Obama, National Bureau of Economic Research, Labor, War Conflict, Health Medical Pharma, Health care, Healthcare reform in the United States, Economist, Health promotion, Late 2000s recession in Europe
Senate panel sets December 17 vote on Bernanke
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Senate Banking Committee said on Tuesday said it will vote December 17 on the confirmation of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for a second four-year term at the helm of the U.S. central bank. The committee said in a statement it would announce...
Tags: Ben Bernanke, Senate Banking Committee, Bernanke Fed, Federal Reserve, reserve chairman, senate panel, New York City, Business Finance, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Politics, Federal Reserve System, Great Depression, Barack Obama, Late-2000s recession, Reuters, Bernanke Doctrine, Alan Greenspan, Robert Gibbs, Jim Bunning, Christopher Dodd, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
German industrial orders fall
Frankfurt :: Germany | 2 days ago
Credibility Orders fell 2.1 per cent compared with September’s level, according to the Berlin economics ministry, more than reversing an upwards-revised 1.3 per cent increase in the previous month. With industrial orders data regarded as an important gauge of Germany’s...
Tags: cent compared, Germany, Frankfurt, Business Finance, Great Depression, Frankfurt am Main, Economist, Cent, Euro
U.S. Stocks Fall; Economic Worries Weigh
New York :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility U.S. stocks erased gains Monday afternoon, with financials fronting the slide, as investors worried about the economic recovery after comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Up about 50 points earlier on, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined...
Tags: Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, reserve chairman, chairman ben, Ben S. Bernanke, Mr. Bernanke, economic recovery, Economic Club of Washington, U.S, NZPA, New York, Business Finance, Monetary policy, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Federal Reserve System, Dow Jones & Company, United States dollar, Late-2000s recession, Macroeconomics, Inflation, Bond market, Great Depression, Bonds, Vodafone, Economic disasters, KOSPI, Southwest Airlines, OPEC, Japanese yen, Korea Exchange, Benchmark
Few signposts mark road to recovery
Dubuque :: IA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Danny Johnston Job seekers line up at a Little Rock, Ark., job fair recently. The road from recession to recovery is rarely smooth, straight or short...While each American recession is different, most major ones end with pessimism heavy in the air.
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S, Dubuque, Timothy Geithner, Business cycle, Recessions, Great Depression, Business Finance, Macroeconomics, Recession, Ben Bernanke
UN expert forecasts tough time for global economic recovery in 2010
Desa :: Romania | 5 days ago
Credibility Xinhua on Tuesday that "the world economy is climbing out of the financial crisis step by step...The global stocks markets have been bouncing back since March 2009, all kinds of risk indicators on the credit market have been down back to or close to the...
Tags: financial crisis, Hong Pingfan, economic recovery, Xinhua, global imbalances, world economies, economic rebound, international trade, global economic, unemployment rate, Romania, Desa, Business cycle, Financial crises, Recessions, Great Depression, Financial crisis of 2007￢ﾀﾓ2009, Stock market crashes, World economy, Business Finance, Market trends
Is the jobs summit just a photo op?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility President Obama is right to bring together some of the nation’s top business, labor and community leaders to figure out how to bring jobs into the recovery...We must create a new financial structure -- an inclusive, expansive economy that harnesses the...
Tags: job summit, American, San Francisco, Celtic Tiger, Great Depression, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Business Finance, Late-2000s recession, Labor economics, Labor
Time to get tough on China
Tōkyō :: Japan | 6 days ago
Credibility It's time to start getting tough on Beijing. No, this is not a rant about China's alleged lack of human rights. When China has something as evil as Abu Ghraib and Bagram we might have a right to complain. Nor am I complaining about China's lack of something...
Tags: China, exchange rate, Japan Language, rate protectionism, U.S, cheap manufacturers, industries base, Western, tariffs protectionism, Beijing, Japan, Tōkyō, International trade, Great Depression, Free trade, Economy of the People's Republic of China, Protectionism, Tariff, Subsidy, Export
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