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As he often does, the comedian Andy Borowitz nailed it Monday on his online satire site, BorowitzReport.com:
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American intelligence experts…
It may be, with the gloomy headlines from Washington, Wall Street, Detroit and elsewhere, that more Americans than usual are restive this Thanksgiving.
Unemployment and uncertainty are up. Confidence is down. Retailers are looking at a bleak holiday season. The president-elect,…
President-elect Obama and Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner (AP Photo by Charles Dharapak)
In a bizarre demonstration of how important confidence is to the health of the American economy, President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama held back-to-back photo ops Monday, 90…
Seldom, if ever, has the American economy gone through a week like the one just passed.
It began with a $1.2 trillion loss on Wall Street as stocks dropped 8 percent in a single day. It ended with Congress passing and President…
It would have been a shame if the first presidential debate had been postponed. The televised meeting between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama restored a sense of gravitas to the 2008 presidential campaign after a week in which it turned…
Let’s grant that the precarious condition of the country’s financial system requires government intervention on a massive scale. The hands-off-business Bush administration has confessed as much, and no responsible observer claims otherwise - although there is considerable disagreement about the right…
The Ides of September 2008 someday may be recalled as the time when the American economy faced its greatest challenge since the stock market crash of 1929 ushered in the Great Depression.
The nation’s response will test us in ways that 9/11…
No, but you . . . you . . . you’re thinking of this place all wrong — as if I had the money back in a safe. The money’s not here. Your money’s in Joe’s house, right next to…
