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Tips For First-Time Home Buyers – 2010 (US News and World Report
2010 First-Time Home Buyers’ Guide – US News and World Report.
POLITICAL ANALYSIS: 5 Things To Watch For At The Summit (The Washington Post)
With the bipartisan health care summit at Blair House blotting out the political sun today, we are dedicating the entire “Morning Fix” to the five things you should watch for at today’s meeting. (Need a sixth thing to watch? How about the Fix and the Post’s Ezra Klein previewing the big event? On [...]
Obama Betting On Nuclear Power, U.S. Backing New Reactors (New York Times)
President Obama, speaking to an enthusiastic audience of union officials in Lanham, Md., on Tuesday, underscored his embrace of nuclear power as a clean energy source, announcing that the Energy Department had approved financial help for the construction of two nuclear reactors in Georgia.
If the project goes forward, the reactors would be the first begun [...]
ONE MORE REASON BARACK DOESN’T GET IT: Pres Is ‘Cool’ With Big Executive Bonuses At JP Morgan Chase (Bloomberg.com)
President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay.
The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that [...]
AIR TRAVERL SHOCKER: Airlines Continue To Fly Planes With Maintenance Problems (USA Today)
Alerted by a brake warning light in the cockpit, the captain on a U.S. airline flight last August warned passengers he was making an emergency landing and called for firetrucks to be standing by.
The trucks weren’t needed, it turned out. The Boeing 767-300 jet landed safely, the pilot said in his account to NASA's Aviation [...]
They’re Hiring! Four Bright Spots In the Job Market (Yahoo!)
4 Fields That Are Still Hiring
By Lawrence Ross
Over the past year, bad news – bank failures, job loss, and a down housing market – has hovered over the economy like a dark cloud. But good news is on the horizon. According to Newsweek magazine, the stock market has rallied up 44% since March 2009. And [...]
Fareed Zakaria/Opinion: Obama Should Act More Like A President Than A Prime Minister (Washington Post)
A great debate has begun as to how Barack Obama should respond to last week’s election results in Massachusetts, which was clearly a protest vote against him, congressional Democrats and their signature policy proposal: the health-care bill. My own advice would be simple: Barack Obama needs to act like a president, especially the president he [...]
Obama’s Populist Stance On Banks Has Many Skeptics (New York Times)
President Obama wants to cut down to size those too-big-to-fail banks. But his vow on Thursday to rewrite the rules of Wall Street left many questions unanswered, including the big one: Would this really prevent another financial crisis?
The president’s proposals to place new limits on the size and activities of big banks rattled the stock [...]
Obama Says Massachusetts Loss Proves Dems Have Failed ‘Middle Class’ (Washington Post)
President Obama on Wednesday blamed the Democrat’s stunning loss of their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate on his administration’s failure to give voice to the economic frustrations of the middle class, a disconnect that White House aides vowed to quickly address as they continue to work to advance the president’s agenda.
Obama said the relentless pursuit [...]
States On The Brink Of A Budget Crisis (CNN Money)
California is hurtling into the budgetary abyss — and it’s not alone.
Across the nation, state tax collections in the first three quarters of 2009 posted their steepest decline in at least 46 years, according to a report this month from the public policy research arm of the State University of New York.
At least 30 states [...]
