The nation's mayors felt left out in the weeks after President Obama's election. He had met with the governors, but not them. Then, to their surprise,...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business
Yesterday, I wrote about the aura of contrition surrounding the financial types here, wafting off them like cheap cologne on a disco Lothario. Today, at a gathering of international editors and reporters, the contrition had spread to financial journalists. There was the sense that many had missed the boat, failing to ask the tough questions. The widespread contrition is matched by an unnerving feeling of paralysis. The people here -- and we are talking about some of the most influential people on the planet -- seem at a loss about how to attack the financial crisis. It's as if we are watching things unravel -- but are powerless to stop the unraveling. If bankers and politicians were stocks, Davos attendees would be shorting them.
Chicago Tribune | Laurie Cohen and Ray Gibson | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago
Valerie Jarrett--pal of a U.S. president-elect, confidant of the country's most powerful mayor and veteran of corporate boardrooms--has perfected the...
Los Angeles Times | Peter Nicholas | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago
At a tense point in Barack Obama's campaign, his closest friends got together and decided that, whatever it took, they would make him laugh. It was e...
ReedBiz | Bob Reed | Posted 09.11.2008 | Chicago
Valerie B.Jarrett, a trusted adviser to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, may also be a candidate to succeed him in the U.S. Senate if he ...
Marc Ambinder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
When I interviewed her in June, Valerie Jarrett, who will join Barack Obama's campaign as an part-time senior adviser, told me that, by the late fall,...
Washington Post | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics