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Obama: Executive excess 'bad strategy'
The Swampby Jim Puzzanghera and Christi Parsons President Barack Obama this morning unveiled new restrictions on pay for executives at financial institutions receiving federal bailout money, slamming corporate leaders for "narrow self interest" in enriching...Tags: Government, CEO Pay, White House, Citigroup Incorporated, Politics
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Obama: Cheney's terrorism stance 'great ad for anti-American sentiment'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama has an answer for former Vice President Dick Cheney's contention that the new president has put the nation at greater risk with his plans to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and prohibit......Tags: Government, Heads of State, White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism
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Obama would rein in masters of universe
The Swampby Frank James The Obama Administration wants to give Wall Street's masters of the universe a new master, the federal government. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will propose greater regulation of the financial markets when he testifies before the House...Tags: Financial Services, Business Institutions, Freddie Mac, Barack Obama, Services and Shopping
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Obama's news conference: Going 'at it'
The SwampBy Mark Silva President Barack Obama, ready "to go at it'' with a news conference timed for prime-time television tonight, will make an appeal for bold federal spending and action in the face of a persistent economic crisis. The presidential......Tags: CBS Corp., U.S. Department of the Treasury, National Government, Barack Obama, Government
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Obama: 'I like to know what I'm talking about...'
Spin CycleA certain moment in President Barack Obama's second White House news conference last night spawned one of those political inkblot tests that seemed destined to produce differing takes on whether he might have been taking a shot at someone.......Tags: New York, Government, White House, CNN (tv network), American International Group
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Another Nobel winner pans Geithner plan
The Swampby Frank James There may be Nobel laureate economists somewhere who like Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's bank rescue plan that would have a public-private partnership rid banks of the toxic assets on their balance sheets by purchasing them. But they.......Tags: Big 3 Auto Bailout (2008), Company Privatization
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In NY race, a test for Obama?
The Swampby James Oliphant LAKE PLACID, NY-- On a rain-spitting Sunday in Lake Placid, the faux-Alpine ski town famous for the United States' victory in hockey over the Soviet Union during the 1980 Winter Olympics, Jim Tedisco was fanning the......Tags: Polls, Restaurant and Catering Industry, U.S. Presidential Election (2008), Parliament, United States
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Geithner: 'Look at what (we've) done'
The Swampby Mark Silva Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has gone to London for the G-20 summit, and so has ABC News' Charlie Gibson -- which tends to mean that an interview cannot be far behind. "The president said today, 'Let's not......Tags: Economy, Moving, Money and Monetary Policy, United States, Business
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So what do Obama's aides drive?
The Swampby Frank James Politico used President Barack Obama's crackdown on GM and Chrysler to take a look at the kind of cars senior members of the administration drive. They found a lot of "foreign" cars. An excerpt: A survey of......Tags: Honda, Dodge, Ford, Saab, United States
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Geithner: 'It's going to take us a while'
The Swampby Mark Silva Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, warning that it will ""take us a while'' to get out of the economic "mess'' the nation faces, also says banks will need some more federal help. 'it's very important for people to......Tags: United States, Brad Sherman, Energy, Economic Policy, Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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Sebelius: Back taxes paid, senators know
The Swampby Mark Silva In a coda to the collection of back-taxes from Cabinet nominees, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, said today that she has paid more than $7,000 in back taxes owed.......Tags: Charity, Kansas, Parliament, Values, Ethics
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Obama's Euro-test: Power of popularity
The Swampby Christi Parsons At the heart of President Obama's approach to foreign policy has been a promise to end the "unilateral" strategies of his predecessor and heal bruised relations with America's allies. But as Obama makes his presidential debut on......Tags: Treaties, Dmitry Medvedev, Hu Jintao, Business Institutions, George W. Bush
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