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- Obama Defends Spending
- President Barack Obama said the spending in his economic stimulus package plan is necessary to turn the economy around and is not wasteful. Chip Reid reports.
- Videos 2009-04-15
- Obama's Warm Welcome?
- With Pres. Obama preparing for his 1st official overseas trip to attend the G-20 summit, will the current global economic crisis mean the end of the lovefest? Sheila MacVicar reports.
- Videos 2009-03-29
- Obama Plans 600,000 New Jobs
- The president says the stimulus will create four times as many jobs in the next 100 days as in his first 100. See where the gains are expected.
- Videos 2009-06-08
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- DTN News: Obama And The U.S. Strategy Of Buying Time
- DTN News: Obama And The U.S. Strategy Of Buying Time *Source: By George Friedman STRATFOR NSI News Source Info KOTTAKKAL, Kerala, India - November 3, 2009: Making sense of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy at this moment is difficult. Not only is it a work in...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Obama and Business: A Few More Responses From Professor Frank
- Last week, I shared Cornell professor Robert Frank's responses to reader comments regarding his views on President Obama's relationship with business. Here are a few more excerpts from our conversation. BNET: Some readers brought up bank and car company bailouts and criticized the Obama administration for thinking...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Stuck Between Gold's Rise and Market's Decline
- Calafia Beach Pundit submits: Gold is approaching $1000/oz. as I write this, and equity markets are declining. The Dow has fallen below its November low, but the S&P 500 SPY still has a few points left before it, too, hits a new low. The mood is obviously grim. It's...
- External links 2009-02-23
- Obama and Higher Fuel Efficiency Standards
- Diane Lim Rogers submits: It’s a good thing for our nation’s economy…. Not as good as a carbon tax, because the CAFE standards use coersion rather than incentives and don’t raise badly-needed revenue, but it’s still a good thing–and even for the auto industry itself. The story: NEW...
- External links 2009-01-26
- More on Obama and Business: Follow-up Interview With Robert Frank
- While many of my Tuesday interview posts have drawn varied reactions from you, the readers, none has caused quite as much uproar as the interview I ran a month and a half ago with Dr. Robert Frank, professor of management and economics at Cornell's Johnson School of Management and author...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Obama weighs options as deficit is forecast at $1.2 trillion
- Changes in Social Security and Medicare will be central to efforts to bring U.S. government spending in line, President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday, as the Congressional Budget Office projected a $1.2 trillion budget deficit for the fiscal year. "We expect that discussion around entitlements will be a part, a central part"...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Obama Seeks Rebalancing, Asia Warns of Protectionism
- By Bill TarrantSINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama called on Saturday for a new strategy to rebalance global growth, but leaders around the Pacific rim, gathering for a weekend summit, took aim at signs of U.S. trade protectionism.Obama, who arrived in Singapore late on Saturday for the Asia Pacific...
- News items 2009-11-14
- Obama Seeks Rebalancing, Asia Warns of Protectionism
- By Bill TarrantSINGAPORE (Reuters UK) - U.S. President Barack Obama called on Saturday for a new strategy to rebalance global growth, but leaders around the Pacific rim, gathering for a weekend summit, took aim at signs of U.S. trade protectionism.Obama, who arrived in Singapore late on Saturday for the Asia...
- News items 2009-11-14
- Obama Seeks Rebalancing, Asia Warns of Protectionism
- By Bill TarrantSINGAPORE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Saturday for a new strategy to rebalance global growth, but leaders around the Pacific rim, gathering for a weekend summit, took aim at signs of U.S. trade protectionism.Obama, who arrived in Singapore late on Saturday for the Asia Pacific Economic...
- News items 2009-11-14
- Obama: Too Much Debt Could Fuel Double-dip Recession
- By Caren BohanBEIJING (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.With the U.S. unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, Obama told...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Obama Says New Data Shows U.S. Economy Recovering
- By Ross ColvinWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday this week's positive job and economic growth figures proved that his big spending efforts to stimulate the economy were working.But he cautioned in his weekly radio address to Americans that "we have a long way to go before we...
- News items 2009-10-31
- Obama Says New Data Shows Economy Recovering
- By Ross ColvinWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday this week's positive job and economic growth figures proved that his big spending efforts to stimulate the economy were working.But he cautioned in his weekly radio address to Americans that "we have a long way to go before we...
- News items 2009-10-31
- Will Obama Succeed in Maintaining His Approval Rating?
- Andy Abraham submits: Do you remember the statement "It is the economy, Stupid…"? Maybe the same words are affecting President Obama’s approval ratings. They are slipping as Americans are worried about the economy. Obama’s approval rating slipped to 59 percent from 64 percent last month. All in all Americans still...
- External links 2009-03-17
- Bernanke and Obama Start to Relax, so It’s Time to Get Nervous
- One of the best contrarian plays is to buy stocks when the economy is recognized by the Establishment to be in a recession. By the time that the government and media acknowledge the dire truth, investors are well aware of it and have gotten their selling out of the way....
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Obama Plays China Card, But Who Holds the Ace?
- By Caren Bohan, Paul Eckert and Simon RabinovitchWASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters UK) - Although U.S. President Barack Obama has never set foot there, China cast a long shadow in the Pacific region where he grew up.Obama, who will visit Shanghai and Beijing for the first time on November 15-18, spent much of...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Hat Tip: Communicate Like Obama
- Natural and accessible, Barack Obama's communication style is considered "exemplary". Leadership consultant John Baldoni offers the following advice on how to mimic the new president's main tactics to develop your own statesmanlike style: Challenge Obama did it with his "Yes We Can" slogan and campaign, a call...
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Obama Speaks on the Economy
- FinancialSpiltMilk submits: I am watching Obama's press conference and typing this as he speaks. Here is my take:ObamaHe definitely gets that our economy sucks wind and we are in dire straights.The fact that he is focusing spending on alternative energy, health care, infrastructure, education and similar spending that creates...
- External links 2009-02-10
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