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Obama Sets Expansive Goal for Jobs

President-elect Barack Obama is developing a plan to create or preserve 2.5 million jobs over the next two years by spending billions of dollars to rebuild roads and bridges, modernize public schools, and construct wind farms and other alternative sources of energy.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-22-2008
For Treasury Post, Geithner Is Leader Schooled in Crisis

On the evening of Friday, Sept. 12, Timothy F. Geithner gathered 20 Wall Street executives in a conference room at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-21-2008
Bill Clinton's Global Reach Would Have Pluses and Minuses for a Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

If Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is named the next secretary of state, she and her husband could be positioned to lead a public-private partnership on the global stage unlike any before it, one that experts say would bring with it a host of potential benefits and pitfalls for the new president.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-16-2008
Detroit Has Plans for Loans to Retool. First It Must Survive.

DETROIT -- In Washington, President Bush and others see the $25 billion in loans Congress has already approved to retool the ailing automobile industry as a convenient pot of money to help automakers survive the economic tumult.

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High Hopes for a New Friend in the White House

Federal employee unions worked hard for Barack Obama during his winning presidential campaign.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
France's 'Omni-President' Wins Praise for Take-Charge Approach

PARIS, Oct. 17 -- The satirical French newspaper Canard Enchaine has baptized President Nicolas Sarkozy the "omni-president," mocking him as a political whirling dervish who tries to take charge wherever he goes. As Sarkozy prepares to meet President Bush on Saturday evening at Camp David to...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-17-2008
Sarkozy Calls for Revamping of Capitalist System

BRUSSELS, Oct. 16 -- European leaders on Thursday urged that a pending international summit carry out an urgent overhaul of the world's financial architecture and impose new controls on freewheeling bankers and traders. U.S. officials pledged that all good ideas would get an airing but hinted of...

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Krugman Wins Nobel for Economics

Paul Krugman occupies two spheres in the American intelligentsia. In one, he is a New York Times op-ed columnist known for his barbed opinions about President Bush's policies. In the other, he is a Princeton University economist famous for his research on international trade and finance.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-13-2008
Incumbents Are Attacked for Rescue Plan

On the evening of Sept. 30, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) helped unveil a bipartisan deal that would open the door to massive government intervention in the financial markets, calling it "one of the finer moments in the Senate."

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-11-2008
Support Rallied as House Readies for Its Second Bailout Vote

A tide of lobbyists representing corporate executives, small-business owners, farmers and retirees swamped Capitol Hill yesterday in hopes of pushing an emergency economic rescue plan through Congress, but the fate of the measure remained uncertain as the House prepared for a climactic vote at...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-02-2008

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