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• Managing Economic Team Will Be a Challenge for Obama

  Barack Obama's appointment yesterday of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker to the growing team advising him on the nation's deepening financial crisis only heightens a central leadership challenge the president-elect will face: how to manage a stable packed with big brains and bigger... Posted Nov 26 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, Ben Bernanke, Henry M. Paulson, A, for, The White House, Dick Cheney, Will, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Be, Iraq, Barack Obama, Obama, John F. Kennedy, Team, Ronald Reagan, Robert Rubin, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, George Mason University, Jason Furman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Economic, Condoleezza Rice, Timothy Geithner, Columbia Business School, Austan Goolsbee, Lawrence Summers, University of California-Berkeley, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Challenge, Colin Powell, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Qorvis Communications LLC, Jimmy Carter, Peter Wallison, National Economic Council, Bill Clinton's Treasury, Peter Orszag, Andrew Card, Robert Kuttner, Managing, R. Glenn Hubbard, Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Stan Collender, The American Prospect Magazine, James P. Pfiffner, Christina Romer

• Obama Promotes an Array of Financial Proposals

  In his second news conference in as many days, President-elect Barack Obama continued his assertive approach to the nation's financial woes, naming two more top economic officials and promoting a broad array of recovery plans he intends to push upon entering the White House in January. Posted Nov 25 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, Financial, The White House, George W. Bush, of, Tony Fratto, Herbert Hoover, George H.W. Bush, John McCain, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Obama, Chicago, Bill Clinton, an, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Detroit, Paul C. Light, New York University, Kentucky, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert Gates, Kari Lydersen, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Proposals, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Somalia, Peter R. Orszag, Robert Dallek, Promotes, Rob Nabors, James L. Jones, Array

• Media Notes: An Interview With Outgoing White House Press Secretary Dana Perino

  The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays. Posted Nov 23 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Howard Kurtz (washingtonpost.com) Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, United States, The White House, George W. Bush, Scott McClellan, The Washington Post Company, With, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, John McCain, Iraq, CBS Corporation, Howard Kurtz, Cable News Network LP LLLP, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, The New York Times Company, Afghanistan, NBC Universal Inc., Press, Michelle Obama, The Associated Press, Media, ABC Inc., Colombia, an, Africa, Secretary, Rahm Emanuel, House, White, International Olympic Committee, Dana Perino, Robert Gibbs, Tony Snow, Ari Fleischer, Hurricane Katrina, Agence France-Presse, Interview, Outgoing, Dana, Mark Knoller, Perino, The West Wing (TV Show), Rick Sanchez, Notes:, John Yang

• Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion

  Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years. Posted Nov 23 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, The White House, George W. Bush, Medicare, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Citigroup Inc., Charles Schumer, John McCain, Iraq, CBS Corporation, Cable News Network LP LLLP, Barack Obama, Chicago, Harvard University, David Axelrod, ABC Inc., Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Nancy Pelosi, May, Jon Corzine, Plan, Billion, Robert Reich, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Boehner, Austan Goolsbee, Lawrence Summers, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Stimulus, Martin Feldstein, National Bureau of Economic Research, Reach, Democrats', $700

• Obama Courted Federal Employees With Letters Before Election

  In wooing federal employee votes on the eve of the election, Barack Obama wrote a series of letters to workers that offer detailed descriptions of how he intends to add muscle to specific government programs, give new power to bureaucrats and roll back some Bush administration policies. Posted Nov 16 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: With, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Iraq, Barack Obama, Illinois, Obama, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal, Social Security Administration, Julie Tate, U.S. Department of Defense, Transportation Security Administration, American Federation of Government Employees, NASA, National Taxpayers Union, Election, Before, Employees, John Gage, National Park Service, Stephanie Cutter, Jeff Ruch, Courted, Letters

• Experts Warn of Security Risks in Financial Downturn

  Intelligence officials are warning that the deepening global financial crisis could weaken fragile governments in the world's most dangerous areas and undermine the ability of the United States and its allies to respond to a new wave of security threats. Posted Nov 14 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, Financial, In, United Kingdom, Europe, Georgetown University, Al Qaeda, The Pentagon, of, U.S. Department of the Treasury, The World Bank Group, Iraq, Afghanistan, World Trade Center, China, Asia, Beijing, Julie Tate, The Heritage Foundation, Marriott International Inc., Yemen, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Mike McConnell, Warn, Downturn, Central Intelligence Agency, Security, The Taliban, Osama bin Laden, Middle East, East Asia, Pakistan, Islamabad, Risks, Fran Townsend, U.S Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Nashville, Experts, Michael Hayden, Adam Segal, James R. Clapper, Charles Allen, Albert Keidel, Bruce Hoffman, Derek Scissors

• Officials Guiding the Process Are Named

  The Obama transition team yesterday rolled out a new list of officials who will help guide the process, singling out the Treasury, Defense and State departments as its first three areas of focus. Posted Nov 12 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, The, Yahoo! Inc., The Pentagon, Thomas E. Perez, U.S. Department of the Treasury, John McCain, Iraq, Barack Obama, Edward M. Kennedy, Al Gore, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, North Korea, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Are, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Colorado, Center for American Progress, Officials, Named, Middle East, Process, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, National Defense University, Executive Office of the President, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Core Capital Partners, Reed Hundt, Joseph Biden, Level 3 Communications Inc., Madeleine Albright, University of Michigan Law School, Raymond Odierno, Melody Barnes, Sarah Sewall, Ann Scott Tyson, Labor Alexis M. Herman, Seth Harris, David J. Hayes, Janet Reno, The Albright Group LLC, New York Law School, Jon Wilkins, Albright Capital Management LLC, Center for a New American Security, Josh Gotbaum, Wendy R. Sherman, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John P. White, Thomas E. Donilon, Warren Christopher, Louisa Terrell, Ray Rivera, Flournoy, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, Guiding, Michele A. Flournoy, Resources Department, Lisa Brown, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, Tom Wheeler, Michael Warren, Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, Stonebridge International LLC

• A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks

  The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration's request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry. In the midst of this late-September drama, the Treasury Department issued a five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention. Posted Nov 09 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Henry M. Paulson, U.S., A, for, Wells Fargo & Company, Citigroup Inc., U.S. Department of the Treasury, Charles Schumer, George H.W. Bush, Iraq, Internal Revenue Service, Wachovia Corporation, Capitol Hill, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Max Baucus, Chuck Grassley, Robert Carroll, U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation, Quiet, U.S. House of Representatives, Banks, New York City, Kevin A. Hassett, National City, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Jones Day, Windfall, Santander, Sovereign Bancorp Inc., Andrew C. DeSouza, Banco Santander SA, Scott E. Talbott, Carol Guthrie, Robert L. Willens, Eric Solomon, Lee A. Sheppard, George K. Yin, Candace A. Ridgway, Kenneth W. Gideon

• Sometimes Continuity Trumps Change

  As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to fill top positions for his incoming government, he faces a stubborn reality: Some of the key individuals he will rely upon to tackle the country's most serious challenges are holdovers from the current administration -- a trio of Bush appointees who will... Posted Nov 09 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, Ben Bernanke, Princeton, The White House, San Francisco, George W. Bush, The Pentagon, Change, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Carrie Johnson, U.S. Department of Justice, George H.W. Bush, Neil Irwin, Iraq, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Cuba, Illinois, Bill Clinton, U.S. Democratic Party, Ronald Reagan, World Trade Center, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Microsoft PowerPoint, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, The Brookings Institution, Robert Gates, Timothy Geithner, David Petraeus, Duke University, Robert Mueller, Guantanamo Bay, Baghdad, Lawrence Summers, Artur Davis, Jim Moran, U.S. Central Command, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Sometimes, Joseph Biden, William A. Galston, Luis Gutierrez, Eric Holder, Trumps, Thomas Donnelly, J. Edgar Hoover, Continuity, John Kirby, Michael G. Mullen, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Peter D. Feaver

• Emanuel to Be Chief of Staff

  President-elect Barack Obama made the first appointment of his new administration yesterday, choosing Rep. Rahm Emanuel to serve as White House chief of staff when he takes office in January. Posted Nov 06 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, to, Google Inc., The White House, George W. Bush, of, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Connecticut, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Be, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Illinois, Michigan, Chicago, Chief, John Kerry, Caroline Kennedy, David Axelrod, Iran, Christopher Dodd, Natural Resources Defense Council, Mike McConnell, Robert Gates, Staff, Central Intelligence Agency, John Boehner, Rahm Emanuel, Pakistan, Eric Schmidt, U.S. Department of Energy, Sierra Club, Juliet Eilperin, Robert Gibbs, William Donaldson, Joseph Biden, Michael A. Fletcher, Richard Danzig, Xerox Corporation, Luis Gutierrez, California Air Resources Board, Michael Morell, White Plains, Sam Nunn, Emanuel, Pace Law School, Anne M. Mulcahy, Kathleen McGinty, Lisa Renstrom, Mary D. Nichols, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert Wexler, Waterkeeper Alliance, David Bonior, Ian Bowles

• For Obama, White House Keys Could Come With License to Spend

  When President-elect Barack Obama moves into the White House in January, he will inherit a stratospheric budget deficit, a collapsing financial system and the gloomiest economic outlook since the Great Depression. The silver lining? For a few months, at least, he may have a license to spend money. Posted Nov 05 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, to, for, The White House, Medicaid, U.S. Department of the Treasury, With, Steny Hoyer, John McCain, Arizona, Iraq, U.S. Republican Party, Barack Obama, Obama,, Colombia, Nancy Pelosi, Could, The Brookings Institution, Tax Policy Center, House, White, Chris Van Hollen, Concord Coalition, Robert Bixby, Paul Kane, Come, License, Spend, Institute for America's Future, Mike Ross, Keys, Robert Borosage

• Right Turn in July Put McCain on Unfamiliar Path

  John McCain's campaign was meandering through the summer, one day focusing on the Everglades, the next on Iraq and hardly ever on Barack Obama, when a small group of top advisers took the candidate aside and told him to make a choice. Posted Nov 05 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, In, on, The White House, California, Massachusetts, JetBlue Airways Corporation, Republican National Committee, John McCain, Iraq, Barack Obama, Michigan, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, McCain, John Weaver, Mitt Romney, Georgia,