News stories continue to suggest that Greece once again appears on the verge of reaching a deal with its private sector creditors on how much of a loss they would be willing to accept on their bond holdings. The latest numbers suggest a 70% write-down.
The Obama administration is preparing to begin talks with Iraq on defining a long-term defense relationship that may include expanded U.S. training help, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s chief policy aide. The U.S.
My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. This morning, we look at the newly impaneled Office of Mortgage Origination and Securitization Abuses.Print version had the headline A Chance for a modern Pecora Commission to right Wall Street wrongs.
“The 62 bundlers who work in that [investment] industry have raised at least $9.4 million for Obama and the DNC.
Well now. Apple should be ashamed of themselves....instead....it's all about the profits. Nice they outsourced all these jobs to China instead of building them here. Oh that's right. Tax breaks! This is what the President was talking about.
Fact or Fiction Number 1 - The Booming Economy: Obama's Jobs Story 3 million jobs created over 22 months, more jobs created in 2011 than in any year since 2005. Using total employment, Obama's numbers don't hold up.
As the Eliot "Hollowmen" poem ends, "this is the way the world ends...
In 1929, there were nearly 25,000 banks in the U.S. Many European nations had fewer than 100. More than 90 percent of U.S.
On the eve President Obama’s State of the Union address—in which he plans to pretend to further advance a populist message against big money and income inequality—Obama's massive federal settlement with big Wall Street banks over their role in the mortgage cris …
Buffett: I do fault a law that allows Romney and me earning enormous sums to pay overall federal taxes at a rate that’s about half what the average person in my office pays. Warren Buffett, the billionaire calling for more taxes on the rich, said Mitt Romney’s U.S.
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