Sun can also rise after tax hikes

2011-05-13T02:30:09Z

CARSON CITY - Let's play "Who said it?"

"I believe that that will in fact kill the current recovery and put us back in a recession. It might take one and half or two years, but it will happen."

That's Gov. Brian Sandoval, attacking the Democratic tax plan unveiled last week, right?

Sandoval did attack the Democrats and ...

Obama seeks inspiration from Clinton boom

2011-01-07T16:30:12Z

US President Barack Obama Friday sought to channel the economic alchemy of the Clinton boom years, as he named policy veteran Gene Sperling to a top White House job.

Obama also argued that current economic trends were heading in a favorable direction, after high unemployment -- the legacy of the worst economi...

Obama names Sperling to top economic job

2011-01-07T09:30:22Z

US President Barack Obama will on Friday tap expertise polished in the fondly remembered Clinton-era economic boom years with the choice of policy veteran Gene Sperling for a top White House job.

The move will be the latest step in a staff shuffle that has seen Obama refresh his economic and political teams t...

Analysis: Obama tax deal with GOP marks fast turn

2010-12-10T11:30:25Z

Analysis: Obama swivels from talking spending cuts to proposing $900 billion deal with GOP

So much for slashing those soaring budget deficits.

Less than a week after his bipartisan deficit commission offered a package of tough tax hikes and spending cuts to stem the flood of government red ink, President Barack Obama cut a deal with Republicans that would add a whopping $900 billion to the ...

Factbox: Potential candidates to replace Summers

2010-09-21T20:45:11Z

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

Bill Clinton stumps for Democrats in Pennsylvania

2010-09-13T13:00:13Z

Bill Clinton stumps in Pa. for Senate candidate Sestak, says Dems deserve more time on economy

Former 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 left such a huge hole.

Clinton acknowledged the economic struggles of millions of Americans as he spoke at a campaign even...

In Politics, What is Triangulation?

2010-11-05T11:22:55Z

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Former President Clinton campaigns for NY Democrat

2010-09-03T14:31:04Z

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 midterm elections is: "Put us in becaus...

Deregulation of the Banking Industry

2010-11-02T14:29:11Z

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White House insists stimulus plan a job engine

2010-07-14T16:04:39Z

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 that the Federal Reserve was forecasting w...

OOPS

2010-11-02T15:14:27Z

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Tax Hikes Won't Kill The Economy

2010-10-27T09:01:35Z

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Clinton as cheerleader for Reid

2010-06-15T02:15:28Z

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, rallying a restive Democratic base for the embattled Harry Reid. Clinton recalled an ol...

Disagreeing With Laffer

2010-10-27T09:01:32Z

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Tax Cuts And 'Starving The Beast'

2010-10-27T06:45:13Z

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Geithner confident on financial overhaul

2010-06-26T03:35:16Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Sunday expressed confidence that lawmakers will bridge partisan differences on the overhaul of financial regulations and pass a bill that protects taxpayers from financing future bailouts.

"I am very confident that we're going to have the votes for a strong package of financial reforms that wi...

Clinton's Courage

2010-10-25T11:26:11Z

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Even Reagan Raised Taxes

2010-10-24T15:16:24Z

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Grading Obama's Economic Policy Thus Far

2010-10-22T13:11:46Z

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Matt Taibbi: Obama's Big Sellout

2010-10-22T13:00:52Z

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October 2009 Market Review

2010-10-22T12:51:41Z

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Obama, Clinton eat Italian after Obama's NY speech

2010-06-12T08:34:01Z

President Obama, former President Clinton have lunch together after Obama's speech on Wall St.

President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton met privately for about 90 minutes on Monday, discussing the global economy over a meal in Manhattan...

We Need A Party Of Fiscal Responsibility

2010-10-22T07:45:24Z

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Obama administration's task force

2010-10-22T10:45:54Z

Task force appointed by President Obama to oversee restructuring of auto companies

President Barack Obama's auto task force was appointed three months ago to coordinate the government's restructuring efforts of General Motors and Chrysler LLC. That included lengthy negoti...

What to tax to pay for health care?

2010-06-25T22:20:18Z

Taxes on sodas, alcohol and insurance among the options to pay for health care

A federal soda pop tax. Higher levies on beer, wine and hard liquor. Taxing some health insurance benefits. Those are among the options the Senate is considering to pay for revamping health care.

How to pay for expanding coverage to nearly 50 million uninsured people is the toughest question in the health care debate. Cutting costs is a popular idea, but few experts think enough s...

In Pictures: Obama's New Taxes

2010-10-21T09:58:18Z

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Economic Crisis Tests Welfare Reform

2010-10-21T09:57:30Z

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All the President's men ... and women

2010-10-21T10:35:46Z

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Obama names new deputy treasury secretary

2010-06-12T11:22:27Z

President Barack Obama has offered under-staffed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner some relief, nominating Clinton-era veterans as his deputy and top advisor for global finance policy.

Obama named Neal Wolin as Deputy Treasury Secretary and Lael Brainard as...

Obama names deputy treasury secretary

2010-06-12T11:21:45Z

President Barack Obama on Monday offered under-staffed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner some relief, nominating Clinton-era veterans as his deputy and top advisor for global finance policy.

Obama named Neal Wolin as Deputy Treasury Secretary and Lael Brainard

Analysis: Obama address renews audacity to hope

2010-04-16T17:04:50Z

Analysis: Obama pivots from dour rhetoric, giving American audacity to hope again

President Barack Obama gave America the audacity to hope again.

After describing the U.S. economy in nearly apocalyptic terms for weeks, pushing his $787 billion stimulus plan through Congress, the president used his address to Congress on Tuesday night to tap the deep well of American optimism — the never-say-die spirit t...

Analysis: Obama plans eclipsing New Deal spending

2010-04-16T14:13:15Z

Analysis: Obama's recovery deal pricier than FDR's, but he's yet to close deal with public

In sheer size, the economic measures announced by President Barack Obama to address "a crisis unlike we've ever known" are remarkable, rivaling and in many cases dwarfing the New Deal programs that Bill Clinton predicts economy will rebound in 12 to 15 months, supports Obama's stimulus plan

Former President Bill Clinton told legislators in his home state of Arkansas on Wednesday that he'd be shocked if it took more than two years for the nation's economy to rebound, and said he supports President Barack O...

Former President Clinton: Obama off to good start

2010-04-16T17:10:15Z

Former President Clinton gives President Barack Obama high marks on handling economic problems

Former President Bill Clinton said Monday he thinks the country will surmount the current economic crisis, but sees the threat of terrorism and global instability as a longer-term problem.

Clinton also gave President Barack Obama high marks for the $787 b...

The Upside-Down Stimulus Skeptics

2010-04-16T17:16:59Z

Ignorance and mythology are out-shouting facts and wisdom in public discussion of President Barack Obama’s plan to stimulate the depressed economy. Excessive airtime is devoted to the prejudices of cable hosts and radio personalities who regurgitate ideas they barely understand and who haven’t entertained an original thought since the Reagan era. Urgent action that could prevent enormous suffering and damage is delayed by all the sa...

Stop the Presses: Republican Lawmakers Oppose Democratic President

2010-04-16T15:08:18Z

With apologies to all of the important and influential news outlets that are playing it up, there is absolutely nothing newsworthy about John Boehner's apparent declaration of war on Barack Obama's $825 billion economic stimulus package.

You didn't actually think the top Republican in the CENTER OF THE DEBATE OVER BUSINESS TAXES

THE INSIDE PLAYERS

Taxes may be one of the few certainties in life, but here's another: Washington will spend much of President Barack Obama's first term in a fight over whose taxes to cut, whose to raise, and whose to leave alone. Alr...

Obama Will Spend Less--Way Less!--Than Bush

2010-10-21T09:49:14Z

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Outlook for 2009: How Will Obama Perform?

2010-10-21T09:17:17Z

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Analysis: GOP urging restraint in stimulus debate

2010-06-26T01:16:43Z

Analysis: Pressing for role in stimulus debate, Republicans dust off calls for restraint

Out of power, Republicans appear to be retreating to familiar old ground. They're becoming deficit hawks again.

GOP lawmakers didn't seem to mind enjoying the fruits of government largesse for the past eight years while one of their own was in the White House. Now they're struggling to regain footing at a time...

Analysis: Deficit spending is tough medicine

2010-06-12T09:02:48Z

Analysis: Big stimulus package may help revive sick ecnomy, but with unpleasant side effects

WASHINGTON — It's a painful dilemma. The expected growth of the federal government budget deficit to $1.2 trillion this year could swamp future generations with a tidal wave of debt. But failure to spend huge piles of money on stimuli could capsize an already foundering economy.

The deficit projected by the nonpartisan Barack Obama’s Sunday appearance on “Meet the Press” was the president-elect’s declaration that “the economy is going to get worse before it gets better.”

Obviously, no one would argue with that, and it’s certainly smart politics for Obama to talk in such terms, as a way of tempering the public’s outsized expectations for his presidency. But, ...

Obama to name Geithner, Summers to economic posts

2010-06-26T00:03:15Z

Obama to announce Geithner at treasury, Summers to lead National Economic Council

President-elect Barack Obama will announce the leaders of his economic team Monday, naming Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary and Obama's Cabinet slots filling in quickly; Geithner seems in line for treasury secretary

President-elect Barack Obama has moved with unusual speed to select officials for his administration, and senior Democratic officials say he intends to name Timothy Geithner as his treasury secretary as soon as Monday.

Also, Obama is virtually certain to...

Officials: Obama plans to tap Geithner at Treasury

2010-06-26T00:04:53Z

Officials: Obama plans to name Fed official Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary

President-elect Barack Obama intends to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as his treasury secretary to confront the nation's intense econ...

HOW OBAMA WILL STOKE THE ECONOMY

2010-04-16T14:16:41Z

HOW OBAMA WILL STOKE THE ECONOMY

Christmas in January?

It increasingly looks that way. For all the talk in recent weeks that Congress, the White House, and the incoming Administration might agree by late November on another extensive stimulus package, prospects are fading for any but the most minimal aid being passed by Thanksgiving. The real action will happen--and the real money will flow--come Januar...

Obama's economic circle has a Clinton presence

2010-06-26T00:25:56Z

Obama draws on Clinton veterans for advice; also taps younger, older voices

As he confronts the nation's worst financial crisis since the Depression, President-elect Obama has assembled a broad based team of economic advisers though those who stand closest to him tend to be non-ideological pragmatists.

They are drawn them from academia and from past administrations, with an emphasis on Clinton-era veter...

Financial crisis complicates Obama transition

2010-06-26T00:27:54Z

Financial crisis poses transition risks for Obama; need to act quickly and smoothly is high

As president-elect, Barack Obama faces a tricky task as he begins dealing ever more directly with the economic meltdown, grappling with the worst financial crisis in seven decades but not yet wielding the power to do much about it.

He won't be a participant at Meltdown 101: Can a president overpower the peaks and valleys of the business cycle?

How much can the president — one man — shape the U.S. economy, a $14.4 trillion tangle?

Some economists say President-elect Barack Obama can have an outsized influence on the economy. They argue that a well-timed stimulus package could lead to a swifter recovery....

Capital Briefs

2010-10-13T14:59:04Z

* PALIN DISSENTS: One Republican who clearly disagreed with the McCain campaign's stunning decision to abandon Michigan last week was its vice presidential candidate. The morning after the announcement of the Michigan exit and the day after her own televised debate with Joe Biden, Sarah Palin told John McCain brought back memories of George H.W. Bush over the weekend, when in an unusual bit of pre-debate bluster he pledged to “whip” Barack Obama’s “you-know-what” when they face off on Wednesday. That called to mind Bush’s unhelpful boast to a group of Bush administration weighs plan for government to take temporary ownership stakes in banks

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders on Sunday that isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreading financial crisis. With a new trading week dawning, U.S. lawmakers urged quick action by the Bush administration on measures to make direct purchases of bank stock to help unlock...

Bank stock purchase pushed; `no' to protectionism

2010-09-22T13:55:14Z

Push for US to purchase bank stock; treasury secretary says `no' to protectionist policies

BILL CLINTON ON THE BANKING CRISIS, McCAIN AND HILLARY

2010-10-13T15:00:17Z

BILL CLINTON ON THE BANKING CRISIS, McCAIN AND HILLARY

There is no shortage of blame for the financial debacle rocking America and scaring the world. And among the names popping up in the pathology of this vicious malaise are former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, former

Washington Promises Bailout, Paterson May Lease State Assets

2010-04-16T13:08:32Z

George W. Bush promised everyone that there will be a bailout bill, at some point. [The Hill]

Congressional leaders in both parties pledged the same. [Times]

David Paterson is creating a panel to study whether state assets should be leased to private contractors as a way of trimming the budget. [Post]

US financial system proposed by government of President George W. Bush needs further details and safeguards, former president Bill Clinton said Wednesday.

Clinton, interviewed on CNN, said t...

Three Things Candidates Won't Tell You

2010-10-21T09:39:35Z

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Dueling Visions

2010-10-26T10:09:41Z

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Comparing Clinton and Bush on Income Taxes

2010-10-19T11:19:27Z

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Comparing Income Taxes: Clinton vs. Bush

2010-10-19T10:19:57Z

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Citigroup To Led By Ex-Treasury Chief

2010-10-16T07:59:12Z

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Giuliani criticizes GOP on spending

2010-09-10T02:06:54Z

Rudy Giuliani Blames GOP Spending for Congressional Losses in 2006 Election

Republican presidential contenders on Friday scolded Congress for extravagant spending of tax dollars, and Rudy Giuliani blamed the issue for GOP losses in last year's elections.

"We lost control of Congress because we were just like the Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a call for universal health care on Monday, plunging back into a political battle she memorably waged and lost as first lady more than a decade ago.

"This is not government-run," Clinton said of her plan to extend coverage to an estimated 47 million Americans who now go without.

She called for a requirement for businesses to obtain insurance for employ...

APTOPIX Obama Clinton

2010-12-11T08:05:03Z

President Barack Obama, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton, speaks briefly in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, before giving the microphone to Clinton, where he talked about Obama's urging of the Congress to move...

Obama Clinton

2010-12-10T18:30:42Z

Switzerland Soccer WCup 2022 Announcement

2010-12-03T10:31:38Z

Former US President Bill Clinton, left, and Sunil Gulati, Chairman USA bid committee, right, look on after it was announced that Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA Soccer World Cup, in

Switzerland US Soccer WCup Bids

2010-12-01T11:02:13Z

Former US President Bill Clinton and the US delegation arrive at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, to present their bid to host the soccer World Cup...

US Presidents Behind Closed Doors

2010-11-30T06:32:12Z

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 1996, file photo Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Ga., left, with Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kan., center, and House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas arrive at the

News on Bill Clinton

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Tax the rich gets backing from some industry chiefs

Sun can also rise after tax hikes

Obama seeks inspiration from Clinton boom

Obama names Sperling to top economic job

In his element, Bill Clinton returns to White House

At Obama's side, Clinton backs tax deal

Analysis: Obama tax deal with GOP marks fast turn

Campaign Promises And The Economy

Fiscal Sanity

AP Interview: Clinton says give Dems more time

Factbox: Potential candidates to replace Summers

Bill Clinton stumps for Democrats in Pennsylvania

In Politics, What is Triangulation?

Former President Clinton campaigns for NY Democrat

Deregulation of the Banking Industry

White House insists stimulus plan a job engine

OOPS

Tax Hikes Won't Kill The Economy

Clinton as cheerleader for Reid

Disagreeing With Laffer

Tax Cuts And 'Starving The Beast'

Geithner confident on financial overhaul

Clinton's Courage

Even Reagan Raised Taxes

Grading Obama's Economic Policy Thus Far

Matt Taibbi: Obama's Big Sellout

October 2009 Market Review

Obama, Clinton eat Italian after Obama's NY speech

We Need A Party Of Fiscal Responsibility

Obama administration's task force

What to tax to pay for health care?

In Pictures: Obama's New Taxes

Economic Crisis Tests Welfare Reform

All the President's men ... and women

Obama names new deputy treasury secretary

Obama names deputy treasury secretary

Analysis: Obama address renews audacity to hope

Analysis: Obama plans eclipsing New Deal spending

Former President Clinton: Obama off to good start

The Upside-Down Stimulus Skeptics

Stop the Presses: Republican Lawmakers Oppose Democratic President

Obama Will Spend Less--Way Less!--Than Bush

Outlook for 2009: How Will Obama Perform?

Analysis: GOP urging restraint in stimulus debate

Analysis: Deficit spending is tough medicine

Obama to name Geithner, Summers to economic posts

Officials: Obama plans to tap Geithner at Treasury

HOW OBAMA WILL STOKE THE ECONOMY

HOW OBAMA WILL STOKE THE ECONOMY

Obama's economic circle has a Clinton presence

Financial crisis complicates Obama transition

Capital Briefs

Bank stock purchase pushed; `no' to protectionism

BILL CLINTON ON THE BANKING CRISIS, McCAIN AND HILLARY

BILL CLINTON ON THE BANKING CRISIS, McCAIN AND HILLARY

Washington Promises Bailout, Paterson May Lease State Assets

Three Things Candidates Won't Tell You

Dueling Visions

Comparing Clinton and Bush on Income Taxes

Comparing Income Taxes: Clinton vs. Bush

Citigroup To Led By Ex-Treasury Chief

Giuliani criticizes GOP on spending

APTOPIX Obama Clinton

Obama Clinton

Switzerland Soccer WCup 2022 Announcement

Switzerland US Soccer WCup Bids

US Presidents Behind Closed Doors