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Paul Volcker: How Obama Is Tuning Out The Former Fed Chairman

nytimes.com | LOUIS UCHITELLE | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Tim Geithner, Financial Reform, Federal Reserve, Banks, Obama Administration, Ben Bernanke, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Business News

Listen to a top economist in the Obama administration describe Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who endorsed Mr. Obama early in hi...

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Commercial Real Estate: 90% Financing at Low Rates Is Possible

Jerry Chautin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Commercial Real Estate, Business Condo, Financing, Loan Fees, 7(A), President Barack Obama, Working Capital, Office Building, Cdc, Conventional Loans, Obama Administration, Obama Stimulus, Franchise, Cash Flow, Skating Rink, Certified Development Companies, 80%, Small Business Owners, Warehouse and Retail Store, Credit, Restaurant, 7a, Values, Borrowing Money, Loans, Vacancies, 90%, Business News, Operating Costs, Job Creation, Sba, Bowling Alley, 504, Small Business, Business News
Jerry Chautin

The lesser-known 504 program from the U.S. Small Business Administration can be ideal for small-business owners to buy, build or rehabilitate commercial buildings.

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Secret Service Spread Thin By Increase In Threats Against U.S. Leaders

Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Financial Investigations, Death Threats, Threats, Secret Service, Terrorist Threat, Congressional Research Service, Obama Administration, Southern Poverty Law Center, Department of Homeland Security, Special Agent Edwin Donovan, Domestic Threat, Racist Hate Groups, Protection Mission, Antigovernment, Politics News

An internal Congressional Research Service report says that the Secret Service does not that have the resources to deal with the unprecedented number ...

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Women Have The Most To Lose if Health Reform Fails

Julie Menin | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Women, Women's Health, Health Care, Politics News
Julie Menin

Women are a majority of the country's population. And yet, the messaging from the Obama administration on what women stand to gain and lose in the health care debate has been terrible.

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Afghanistan -- Winning Lessons from Vietnam

John Graham | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Vietnam, Kabul, Viet Cong, Opium Money, CORDS Nation-Building, Tet Massacre, Nguyen Van Thieu, Karzai, Thieu Government, CORDS, Obama Administration, Robert Gates, South Vietnamese, Saigon, World News
John Graham

The collapse of US efforts in Vietnam was made inevitable by the pervasive corruption and incompetence of a succession of governments in South Vietnam -- and here lies the lesson for Afghanistan.

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Obama Aides Stand Up To Big Banks On Sunday Morning Talk Shows

nytimes.com | GINGER THOMPSON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Meet the Press, Valerie Jarrett, Economic Stimulus Package, TARP Money, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Economy, This Week, Financial Crisis, Obama Administration, Chris Dodd, State of the Union, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Striking a populist tone, several of President Obama's leading advisers on Sunday issued stern warnings to Wall Street. They said big ba...

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Axelrod Refuses To Say If Obama Will End Antitrust Exemption For Insurance Companies (VIDEO)

Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Companies, Video, David Axelrod, George Stephanopoulos, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Politics News

During an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week, senior Obama adviser David Axelrod refused to say directly whether or not President...

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World's Biggest Economies Hold Talks To Reach Climate Deal

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Meeting in London, British Environment Minister Ed Miliband, Polluting Economies, Sweden Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren, Industrial Countries, Gas Emissions, Climate Change, Obama Administration, Climate Bills, Obama, Biggest Economies, Major Economies Forum, Global Warming, Green News

LONDON — Representatives of the world's 17 biggest and most polluting nations were holding talks Sunday to search for a breakthrough on financin...

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Axelrod, Emanuel Criticize Fox News: "It's Not Really News" (VIDEO)

Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Obama Fox News, Rahm Emanuel, Rach Emanuel Cnn Interview, Obama Administration, Fox News, David Axelrod This Week Interview, Media News

White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel continued the Obama administration's criticism of Fox News during their inter...

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Exceptions To Derivatives Trading Rule Dilute Regulation

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: The Federal Reserve, Larry Summers, Clinton, Lehman Brothers, Derivatives Regulation, Aig, Obama Administration, Regulation, Obama, Legislation, House, Senate, White House, Economic Policy, Fed, Financial Services Committee, Treasury, Banks, Derivatives, Gary Gensler, Wall Street, Timothy Gueithner, Bill, Business News

Derivatives regulation has been on the nation's financial reform agenda for months. Undoing the Clinton-era law that exempted swaps from oversight is ...

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Obama Administration To Unveil New Sudan Policy

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Sudan, Hillary Clinton, Khartoum, Darfur, State Department, World News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to roll out a new policy toward Sudan with an eye toward engaging the government in Khartoum but als...

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Summers: Banks Must Agree To New Regulation

AP | TALI ARBEL | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Bailout, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Obama Administration, Regulation, Larry Summers, Financial Regulation, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

NEW YORK — A top White House official called on financial institutions to accept new rules in order to help the economic system avoid future "de...

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Obama Judicial Appointments Barely Moving Because Of GOP Blocks

Washington Post | Michael A. Fletcher | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop Holds, Gop Obstruction, Obama Judge Appointments, Obama Appointments, Obama Court Appointments, President Obama, Obama Administration, Republicans Obstruction, Obama Appeals Judges, Obama Federal Judges, GOP Filibuster, Politics News

President Obama has not made significant progress in his plan to infuse federal courts with a new cadre of judges, and liberal activists are beginning...

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NY Times On McChrystal's Long War

New York Times | Dexter Filkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Warwire, Afghan War, Afghanistan War, Stanley McChrystal, Obama Administration, Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley Mcchrystal, World News

Success takes time, but how much time does Stanley McChrystal have? The war in Afghanistan is now in its ninth year. The Taliban, measured by the numb...

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In Defense of Rachel Corrie

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Administration, Palestine, Israel, Rachel Corrie, Gaza, World News
Robert Naiman

Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old student and volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by a bulldozer operated by the Israeli army while attempting to prevent it from demolishing the home of a Palestinian.

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Is Defeating Taliban Key to Stopping Al Qaeda?

Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Taliban, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, World News
Nathan Gardels

Some senior advisers fully aware of the risk of quagmire have concluded that to allow a Taliban victory in Afghanistan will amount to a "second Iranian revolution," but a Sunni one.

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Pentagon Fights To Protect Secret Propaganda Budget

POLITICO | David Rogers | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Pentagon Secrecy, Obama Propaganda Budget, Pentagon Information Operations, Secret Propaganda Budget, President Obama, Pentagon Secrets, Obama Propaganda, Obama Administration, Pentagon Propaganda, Pentagon Io Budget, Pentagon Io Pograms, Pentagon Propaganda Budget, Politics News

Growing by leaps and bounds, the Pentagon's secretive Information Operations budget keeps tripping over some basic information -- like how much it cos...

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Medicare Premiums To Rise 25% Next Year

wsj.com | Jane Zhang | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Medicare Advantage, Humana Inc., WellCare Health Plans Inc., Health Care Reform, Premiums, Obama, Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health Care, Seniors, Obama Administration, Business News

Premiums that seniors pay for Medicare Advantage plans will increase an average of 25% next year, largely because insurers, in response to new federal...

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HRC's Solmonese: Dinner Attendees "More Politically Aware," Have "Better Sense of What's at Stake"

Pam Spaulding | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Rights, Obama Administration, Human Rights Campaign, Hrc, Politics News
Pam Spaulding

It's rare to see the whole diversity/class/power dynamic that vexes the LGBT movement opened up since it's a third rail topic that tends to give some with privilege a case of defensive agita.

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Green News Report -- October 13, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Glaciers, Copenhagen 2009, Nuclear Power, Obama Administration, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Lindsey Graham, Green News Report, Kerry-Boxer, Barbara Boxer, PG&E Corp, John Kerry, Philippines Typhoon, Green News, Climate Change, Chamber of Commerce, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Rising waters, shrinking glaciers; Slouching to Copenhagen; A Republican breaks ranks? ... PLUS: Even energy companies are...

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Pay Czar: AIG Asked To Withold Some Bonuses

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Obama Administration, Kenneth Feinberg, Treasury, Business News

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's pay czar has asked American International Group to withhold some of the millions in bonuses promised to its em...

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JPMorgan Interest-Only Loan Periods: Bank Works With Administration On Breaks For Borrowers

bloomberg.com | Jody Shenn and Dawn Kopecki | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Treasury Department, Making Home Affordable, Home Mortgages, Loans, Obama Administration, Business News

Banks will push the Obama administration to expand its mortgage-modification program to allow interest-only periods on reworked loans, seeking to brin...

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Glenn Beck Compares Fox News To Jews During Holocaust (AUDIO)

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, News Networks, Brutal Dictator, The Glenn Beck Show, Holocaust, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Obama, The White House, Republican Party, Obama Administration, Politics News

Leave it to Glenn Beck to take things too far. On his radio show Tuesday Beck drew a rather over-the-top analogy between, of all things, Fox News and ...

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McChrystal's 40,000 Troop Hoax

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Andrew Bacevich, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Obama Administration, Times of London, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, Afghan Taliban, World News
Robert Naiman

Even if Obama were to approve General McChrystal's request, the 40,000 troops wouldn't arrive in time to significantly affect the 12-month window McChrystal says will be decisive.

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How Deep Is D.C. Corruption? So Deep That When Obama Tries to Clean It Up, Lobbyists Publicly Spaz

David Sirota | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ron Kirk, Lobbyists, Obama Administration, Washington DC, K Street, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Sirota

Some might say that hey, it's not a big deal for lobbyists to serve on advisory panels, because those panels are only "advisory." But that label is deliberately deceptive.

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