Did Team Obama Get It Wrong On The Stimulus?
Should the federal government be doing more to help the economy regain its footing? That's the question du jour following a dismal June employment rep...
Should the federal government be doing more to help the economy regain its footing? That's the question du jour following a dismal June employment rep...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's economic adviser on Friday defended the administration's efforts to rescue banks, insurance companies and ...
New York Times | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON President Obama was getting his daily economic briefing one recent morning when a fly distracted him. The president swatted and missed, ju...
Huff TV | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
Arianna appeared on Larry King Live Monday night to discuss whether or not Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner should be fired. Watch below: Embedded ...
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama decried as "inexcusable and irresponsible" the delay of his economic recovery legislation in Congress with a...
Yahoo! News | 25 Mins Ago | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
The new US administration will send only one of President Barack Obama's close aides to the World Economic Forum's meeting in Davos next week instead ...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business
Reuters is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama will promote Georgetown professor Dan Tarullo from being one of his economic advisors to fill a...
Bernard Rowan | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics
It's time to bring in a new generation of leaders to the White House, not just a new version of the same.
Reuters | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker will chair a new economic advisory panel created by President-elect Barack Obama and designed to stabiliz...
AP | SARA KUGLER and STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama sought to reassure the nation and nervous holiday shoppers about the ailing economy Wednesday as beleague...
Robert Scheer | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics
Maybe Ralph Nader was right: the same Wall Street hustlers will have a lock on our government no matter which major party wins the election. How else is one to respond to Obama's economic picks?
Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
Obama gave another press conference today about the economy. While apologizing to a reporter about putting him in the wrong section at his press confe...
New York Times | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
In various high-level government positions, Timothy Geithner, Mr. Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, and Lawrence Summers, his choice for director...
Rob Kall | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business
Romer wrote, if not the book, at least the chapter for Encyclopedia Britannica on the Great Depression.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
LIMA, Peru — President George W. Bush got a second bloc of world leaders to endorse comprehensive action to remedy the global financial crisis. ...
Mark Cuban | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business
Obama's economic advisory team looks more like a semester's worth of guest speakers for an MBA class than a team that can truly help him. Entrepreneurs will lead us out of this mess. Talk to them.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER and TERENCE HUNT | Posted 12.08.2008 | Business
CHICAGO — Inheriting an economy in peril, President-elect Obama warned on Friday that the nation faces the challenge of a lifetime and pledged h...
The New York Times | LOUIS UCHITELLE | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business
Acting quickly after securing his party's presidential nomination, Barack Obama picked a well-known representative of Bill Clinton's economic policies...
McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall and David Lightman | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics