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Roy Blunt usually is not the kind of politician who trades in populist outrage. But there he was last week, issuing a statement from his U.S. House office that said, “While many Missourians are still at risk, Wall Street…
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Back in January, we suggested that President Barack Obama should call for a “New Normal” in America, one in which shared civic responsibility comes ahead of personal aggrandizement. Lately, we’ve found our phrase has been kidnapped.
An old baseball cliché says that “speed don’t slump.” In Washington, it’s lobbying that don’t slump.
President Barack Obama’s policy proposals may not have created many jobs so far in most sectors of the economy, but the lobbying industry is going gangbusters.…
If Ronald Reagan was the “Great Communicator,” Barack Obama is the “Great Conciliator.” It may always have been thus.
“Obama is always disappointing people who feel that he gives too much respect or yields too much ground to the other side,…
Late this afternoon, the Treasury Department is scheduled to announce the results of so-called “stress tests” applied to America’s 20 largest banks. The idea is to determine how well they are prepared to handle further downturns in the economy.
The topic…
Sen. Dick Durbin’s much-discussed (and much-cussed) mortgage “cram down” legislation may come to a vote in the U.S. Senate this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. It deserves to pass. Thanks to the stranglehold that the banking industry has on Republican…
Tim Geithner: Is second time the charm? (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty)
The American public rightly is skeptical about the way the first $350 billion in Troubled Assets Relief Program funds were spent. Now comes the Obama administration with a new name for the…
