March 07, 2009
On Friday, NewsBusters asked, "When Will Media Blame Economy and Bear Market on Obama?" Don't expect Bill Clinton's former labor secretary Robert Reich to ever do so, for in an article published at Salon Thursday, the UC-Berkeley professor claimed "every major policy that led to this ...
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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Noel Sheppard
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January 10, 2009
Almost a year ago, Citigroup’s then-director Robert Rubin downplayed the enormity of the economic catastrophe headed our way and made a pre-emptive move to shift any potential blame to politicians instead of financial experts such as himself. Fast-forward to the present and the picture changes...
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
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January 08, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama is assembling a new and influential cadre of counselors just steps from the Oval Office whose power to direct domestic policy will rival, if not exceed, the authority of his Cabinet....
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Michael D. Shear and Ceci Connolly
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December 07, 2008
Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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Alec MacGillis
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Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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Alec MacGillis
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Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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Alec MacGillis
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November 27, 2008
Barack Obama's appointment yesterday of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker to the growing team advising him on the nation's deepening financial crisis only heightens a central leadership challenge the president-elect will face: how to manage a stable packed with big brains and bigger......
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David Cho and Alec MacGillis
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Barack Obama's appointment yesterday of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker to the growing team advising him on the nation's deepening financial crisis only heightens a central leadership challenge the president-elect will face: how to manage a stable packed with big brains and bigger......
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David Cho and Alec MacGillis
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September 29, 2008
On September 17, while the financial world was still reeling from the collapse of several Wall Street institutions, a next day air envelope arrived at my house. I probably should have opened it and read its contents before this weekend, because it has a direct bearing on the present crisis. Inside I...
Homeland Stupidity
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Michael Hampton
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May 18, 2008
Top fundraisers for Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have begun private talks aimed at merging the two candidates' teams, not waiting for the Democratic nominating process to end before they start preparations for a hard-fought fall campaign....
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