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As Iraq's Oil Flows Freely, Profits Are Stuck in Bureaucracy

BAGHDAD -- Qassim Frez, a senior Iraqi civil servant, has a problem officials in Washington might envy. Iraq has piled up tens of billions of dollars from oil sales, and its bureaucrats are struggling to spend the windfall.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-16-2008
Obama Up by 10 Points as McCain Favorability Ratings Fall

With just over three weeks until Election Day, the two presidential nominees appear to be on opposite trajectories, with Sen. Barack Obama gaining momentum and Sen. John McCain stalled or losing ground on a range of issues and personal traits, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-12-2008
In Ordeal as Captive, Character Was Shaped

HANOI The lake into which John McCain parachuted after his Navy plane was shot down is now surrounded by chic restaurants, cellphone stores and motorcycle dealerships. The prison camp where he confessed to being a "black criminal" has been turned into a multiplex cinema showing garish American...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-04-2008
Bush's Warnings of Danger Are No Longer as Powerful

For the ninth day in a row, President Bush outlined a frightening scenario yesterday that could occur if Congress does not enact his financial rescue package: More banks will fail, home values will plummet further, and a stock market collapse will wipe out the retirement and savings accounts of...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-30-2008
Bailout Is As Big as Budget for Pentagon

The $500 billion that the U.S. government estimates that it will cost to buy the risky investments of financial institutions in coming months approaches what it costs to run the Pentagon for a year.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-19-2008
Economy May Not Influence Election As It Has in Past

Home prices are plummeting, food and energy costs are sky high and, for many families, disposable income is stagnant or falling. Economic forecasters say conditions are the worst they've seen in a presidential election year in nearly three decades.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 08-30-2008
As Good as His Words

From the moment he took the White House podium, Tony Snow was a pugilist and performance artist, relishing the daily combat with White House correspondents.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 07-13-2008
As Obama Aide, Reporter Dons Flack Jacket

ST. LOUIS -- As Barack Obama started fielding questions at a hospital here last week, Linda Douglass stood off to the left, scribbling in a reporter's notebook, as she has in every presidential campaign since 1980.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 06-15-2008
As Candidates Focus on Economy, Clinton Defends Gas Tax Plan

INDIANAPOLIS, May 1 -- With polls showing signs of erosion in his candidacy, Sen. Barack Obama sought Thursday to shift the focus of the Democratic campaign away from the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and back to the economy and his dispute with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton over her proposal to suspend...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 05-01-2008
White House Defends NAFTA as Bush Meets With Heads of Mexico, Canada

NEW ORLEANS, April 21 -- With the North American Free Trade Agreement taking a pounding on the campaign trail, President Bush gathered here Monday with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to defend the pact and to seek new ways to cooperate on border, economic and regulatory issues.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 04-21-2008

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