Presidential Election 2008
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Obama and Clinton: Answering the Whys - The FixChris Cillizza is the author of The Fix, a blog on national politics. Cillizza provides daily posts on a range of political topics, from the race for control of Congress to scrutinizing the 2008 presidential contenders.
S. Charles Balazs
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Obama likely to name Hillary Clinton to Cabinet. But wait! <em>Can</em> he? | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles TimesThe president-elect, no-drama Barack Obama, is expected to name his new secretary of State, all-drama Hillary Clinton, as early as tomorrow as part of the week's rollout for his national security team. But can he? As pointed out by a number of bloggers in recent hours, including our eloquent ...
Lesley Rockafellow Webster
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Broken banks put state back in the driving seat - FTIt seems only yesterday that the onward march of the Anglo-American model of liberal capitalism – small government, fiscal prudence, deregulation, flexible and open markets – set the shape and tempo of the global economy. Some European governments fought a long rearguard action against what one ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Reestructurar las Hipotecas en EE.UU. Es la Solución de Fondo - Estrategia On-LineEl asesor de inversiones en Nueva York plantea que es la única opción para comenzar a resolver la crisis. Eso implica que la administración Obama se debe enfocar en el aspecto de solvencia o estructural de la crisis; y no continuar metiéndole liquidez a cuanto problema hay, que es el error más ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Obama's Honeymoon Will Be ShortMadelein Albright says there are very hard times ahead for President-elect Obama.And though she has been critical on the Bush administration, Albright voices her pride to be an American in the wake of recent events.
Giorgio Bertini
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A Bailout Steeped in Irony - Steven Pearlstein - WPOf all the rescues mounted by the government this year, none carries with it more symbolism, or more irony, than that of Citigroup. Until recently, Citi was not only the largest U.S. financial institution, but the very embodiment of the new financial order. Under the relentless empire-building ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Paul Krugman - Depression Economics Returns - NYTimesThe economic news, in case you haven’t noticed, keeps getting worse. Bad as it is, however, I don’t expect another Great Depression. In fact, we probably won’t see the unemployment rate match its post-Depression peak of 10.7 percent, reached in 1982 (although I wish I was sure about that).
Giorgio Bertini
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China - Would a trade war help solve the problem of excess capacity? - Asia EconoMonitorBad enough as news on the external front is for China – a country with excess savings is not going to welcome a significant rise in US household savings – news on the domestic front isn’t any better. The decline in US consumption was supposed to be mitigated by a fiscally-derived boost in ...
Giorgio Bertini
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China - Rising unemployment increases the pressure for misguided trade policies - Asia EconoMonitorIf unemployment is rising, however, it does mean that there will be serious pressure to do whatever it takes to support employment growth. One thing that I am worried about (and this was the subject of the “longish writing commitment” I mentioned above) is that it puts pressure on the government ...
Giorgio Bertini
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