Obama Economic Policy

Obama Escalates Campaign With Midwest Swing

AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 04.18.2012

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ELYRIA, Ohio — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his Republican rivals are sincere, patriotic and absolutely wrong about how to reinvig...

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Economists: Obama's Economic Policies Are 'Fair' Or 'Poor'

AP | By PAUL WISEMAN and DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 12.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama gets mediocre marks for his handling of the economy and Mitt Romney easily outpolls his Republican rivals in an A...

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Bernanke Pushes Past Dissent, Continues To Make Bold Moves

AP | By PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 11.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- For someone known as a consensus builder, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sure generates – and shrugs off – a lot of d...

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Looking For Jobs In All The Wrong Places

Dan Rather | Posted 08.17.2011

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In Washington, business leaders and lawmakers have been pushing to ease visa rules and caps. And across the country, high-tech workers -- both foreign and domestic -- are seeing the notion of job security give way to a brutal contest of survival.

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Obama, the Marxist?

Alex Castellanos | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since he debuted on the political stage with the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention, Republicans have suspected that Barack Obama was a Marxist. It turns out they were right: He's Groucho.

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Global Crises Overshadow Obama's Economic Message

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Foreign policy challenges are intruding on President Barack Obama's promise to focus on the economy after the Democrats' election d...

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Obama's Bogus Explanation For Troubles: Too Much Regulation

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two years after inheriting the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression, President Barack Obama has settled on an unhelpful new explanation ...

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Paul Volcker: Unemployment Has No Short-Term Solution

Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJNG (AP) -- A top economic adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday he sees no short-term way to reduce high U.S. unemployment and expects sl...

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Paul Krugman: Obama's Economic Policy Failed To Deliver

nytimes.com | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Democrats do as badly as expected in next week's elections, pundits will rush to interpret the results as a referendum on ideology. President Obama...

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Summers, Unapologetic To The Bitter End

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his final public remarks as head of President Obama's National Economic Council on Monday morning, Larry Summers, to no one's surprise, had nothin...

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Top Obama Administration Economic Jobs Remain Vacant

New York Times | SEWELL CHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama signaled on Friday that he was close to choosing a director for a new consumer bureau, but an array of top jobs that wil...

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White House Plans Job Training Partnership

New York Times | CATHERINE RAMPELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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As part of efforts to address record-high levels of long-term unemployment, President Obama plans to announce a new national public-private partnershi...

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Tone Deaf White House Needs Top Economic Honcho to Counter Criticism That It's Anti-Middle Class

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

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The administration seems intent on shooting itself and Democrats in the foot by appointing a conservative pro-business executive rather than a proven fighter for the economic interests of the middle class.

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Two Contrasting Sets of Economic Values at Stake in Mid-Terms

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are those who believe that there's not a dime's worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans: that it really doesn't matter who is elected. Those people are wrong.

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Obama Economic Team Considering New Stimulus Heavy On Tax Breaks For Business

Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the recovery faltering less than two months before the November congressional elections, President Obama's economic team is considering another b...

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Obama Economic Team Weighing New Wave Of Tax Cuts, Infrastructure Spending: WSJ

Wall Street Journal | DEBORAH SOLOMON and JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration is considering a range of new measures to boost economic growth, including tax cuts and a new nationwide infrastructure progr...

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Obama Approval Rating Hits New Low For Handling Economy (POLL)

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also f...

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Toward an Economic Message for Democrats

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ask a Republican to name a single economic program they support that was not part of George W. Bush's economic plan just before the economy collapsed, and wait for the answer. You will hear crickets chirping.

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CFPA: Yet Another Administration Idea Whose Time Will Not Come

Marty Robins | Posted 05.25.2011

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For an Administration which claims to be committed to economic recovery through free markets, the Obama Administration does a good job of confusing the issue.

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Stop Blaming Business For the Recession and Harness the Power of Individual Savings to Spark a Genuine Recovery

Eugene M. Grant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now into year two of the Obama Administration's economic recovery plan, it is clear to the unemployed and underemployed that President Obama doesn't have the firepower to get the job done.

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The New DOJ: Lessons Learned From the Ticketmaster Live Nation Decision

Alan Meese | Posted 05.25.2011

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While the Obama Administration might engage in antitrust saber rattling, its approval of Live Nation-Ticketmaster shows the triumph of economic reasoning that is often counterintuitive to policy advocates.

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Job Creation Will Be Administration's Main Focus In The Coming Months

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — One year in, President Barack Obama faces a perilous economic choice. He can't pull back the stimulus too quickly, despite the publ...

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The Case For More Stimulus: NYT

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The consensus among economists is that the recession is over, and, technically, the herd is probably right. Corporate profitability has been boosted b...

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Paul Volcker: Regulatory Reform 'In The Spirit of Glass-Steagall' Needed To Fix 'Broken' System

BusinessWeek | Charlie Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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ROSE: So does this mean we should restore Glass-Steagall? VOLCKER: No. That's a false statement people make about my position. Glass-Steagall basical...

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Krugman: Obama Intimidated By Wall Street Scare Stories

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.25.2011

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A funny thing happened on the way to a new New Deal. A year ago, the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; today, the reigning doctrine in Washin...

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