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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 to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-26-2008
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 to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-09-2008
Safety in Numbers? Poll-Driven Press Goes Out on a Limb

The network maps are bathed in blue, the pundits contemplating a landslide, the conservative columnists preparing for the indignities of an Obama administration.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-19-2008
A Rising Political Star Adopts a Low-Key Strategy

Early in 2005, Barack Obama met with half a dozen advisers in Washington to plot strategy. Some of those who participated remember that the group focused less on the details of Obama's new job as the junior senator from Illinois than on managing his overall political image. He wanted to run for....

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-16-2008
A Hard-Hitting Final Round

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Oct. 15 -- Seeking to recapture the momentum in the presidential race, John McCain aggressively criticized Barack Obama's past relationships and challenged his character Wednesday night while Obama sought to link McCain to President Bush and direct the conversation to "solving...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-15-2008
Signaling a Shift to Europe's Path

In announcing plans to partly nationalize nine major banks yesterday, President Bush found himself in the unusual position of having to reassure Americans that he was not, in fact, opposed to capitalism.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-14-2008
McCain Ready for A Change Of Subject

In the two weeks that the Wall Street financial crisis has dominated the political debate, the presidential race has shifted from what had been essentially a dead heat to one in which Sen. Barack Obama has opened up a narrow but perceptible advantage nationally, as well as in a number of...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-27-2008
How McCain Stirred a Simmering Pot

When Sen. John McCain made his way to the Capitol office of House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) just past noon on Thursday, he intended to "just touch gloves" with House Republican leaders, according to one congressional aide, and get ready for the afternoon bailout summit at the...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-26-2008
Gibson Trod A Fine Line In Interviews

For a precious few moments, the presidential campaign wasn't about Sarah Palin's hairstyle or her Naughty Monkey red shoes or her daughter's pregnancy.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-14-2008
A Blogger, a Baby, a Cry of Concern

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 -- When Markos Moulitsas saw that one of the contributors to his liberal blog was accusing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of lying about her 4-month-old baby, he was a bit skeptical.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-01-2008

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