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Obama Makes Key Nominations

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 02.26.2012

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HONOLULU — A vacationing President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated a Harvard University professor and a former Treasury official under Preside...

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Obama Sidesteps Question About Whether The Fed Is Intentionally Devaluing The Dollar

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW DELHI — President Barack Obama has sidestepped a question of whether the Federal Reserve may have weakened the value of the dollar by purchasing...

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Webb, Sanders Pressure Obama On Fed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two senators on opposite ends of the Democratic caucus spectrum are circulating a letter pressuring President Obama to appoint governors to the Federa...

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Listening to Paul Volcker

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Kuttner

You know how far politics has swung to the right when the most left wing guy in the room is the former chairman of the Federal Reserve. But that's what financial reform has come to.

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Sanders Rips Bernanke Nomination: "He Was Asleep At The Wheel"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The decision by President Barack Obama to nominate Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve has been greeted with a type of h...

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