Topic: Bill Clinton

AP Interview: Bill Clinton says give the Democrats more time to dig US out of the holeBill Clinton asked the American people Wednesday to give the Democrats two more years to dig the country out of the economic hole he blamed on ...

Factbox: Potential candidates to replace Summers

WASHINGTON Sept 21 (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Larry Summers is stepping down from his job at the end of the year to return to his position as a professor at Harvard University, the administration said on Tuesday.Following are economists that ...
Bill Clinton stumps in Pa. for Senate candidate Sestak, says Dems deserve more time on economyFormer President Bill Clinton told Democratic supporters Monday that their party leaders deserve more time to turn the nation's economy around because the Republican leadership before them ...
Political triangulation allowed Clinton to capitalize on his folksy charm and high approval ratings, while also capturing the general public desire for many mainstream Republican ideas and a kneejerk shying away from traditional Democratic ideas.The most striking example of Clinton’s use of ...
Former President Clinton campaigns for New York Democrat, chides GOP for economic "mess"Former President Bill Clinton slammed Republicans Friday for their stewardship of the economy during their years in power in Washington, and said the party's campaign message heading into the 2010 ...
Under Carter In March 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act (DIDMCA), raising deposit insurance limit from $40,000 to $100,000, and phasing out ceilings on the interest rates that banks could offer their depositors. Under Clinton In ...

White House insists stimulus plan a job engine

The White House said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's stimulus law had raised employment by up to 3.6 million jobs, as it battled to trump public skepticism over the mammoth plan.But fears deepened that the recovery may be slowing, as it emerged ...

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" Senior campaign adviser Joe Trippi stresses that the campaign is lean enough that it can continue through the convention, picking up delegates along the way, but the endgame for that strategy is unclear. Ultimately, though, the Edwards campaign has been both ...
Over time few things affect economic activity more than absolute and relative tax rates. This time around, not only is the Fed holding the federal funds rate near zero, but income tax hikes scheduled for 2011 are less severe than those of ...

Clinton as cheerleader for Reid

Leave it to Bill Clinton to capture the political zeitgeist in an old Cajun joke. There he was, the former president and one-time Arkansas governor, doing his best Southern revival act in a high school gymnasium in West Las Vegas last week, ...