The Dallas Morning News reports that another Obama cabinet appointee has been negligent in paying all of his taxes.
Ron Kirk, the former Dallas mayor who was nominated to be the U.S. trade representative in the Obama administration, failed to pay taxes…
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…
Hey, what’s with all these bonuses
They’re givin’ to the rich?
They’re fillin’ up their pockets,
Walk away without a hitch.
Gotta get myself some TARP
Because I hear it’s going fast. . . .
Things were hunky-dory last September between CEOs John Thain of Merrill…
Barack Obama and Joe Biden
Update: Caroline Kennedy, we hardly knew you. New York Times reports that she is withdrawing from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Senate to fill the seat vacated by new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President-elect Barack Obama insists he will protect Main Street, not just Wall Street, when fashioning a federal response to the credit crisis.
Perhaps so. Perhaps his “one president at a time” rule is causing…
Now comes the hard part. President-elect Barack Obama, having won a historic mandate for change, must make it happen.
He faces monumental problems: “Two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century,” as he put it in…
