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IHT 30-JAN-12

Barack Obama to deliver vision for second term in key State of the Union address

dailymail 24-JAN-12

The 'British' Germans the war left behind

bbc 16-NOV-11

Obama: No regrets about Solyndra loan (AP)

news 03-OCT-11

Greece needs more reform not taxes, says IMF

phantis 19-SEP-11

Bank share slide hits markets as eurozone worries continue

telegraph 18-JUL-11

'Cut, cap and balance' unlikely to end debt ceiling struggle

cnn 18-JUL-11

Geithner mulls departing Treasury post: sources

ibtimes 01-JUL-11

Apple urged to yank 'anti-Israel' app

cnn 22-JUN-11

Growth figure fuels recovery fears

independent 27-APR-11

Haiti and the international aid scam | Mark Weisbrot

guardian 22-APR-11

After ban, Harvard lets ROTC back

cnn 04-MAR-11

Big explosion derails India train

bbc 26-JAN-11

Source: Obama Seeks 5-Year Partial Budget Freeze

CBSnews 25-JAN-11

Obama names GE head to lead new economic council

cnn 21-JAN-11

Obama 2.0 Looking Ever More Like Clinton 2.0

NPRnews 08-JAN-11

Obama chooses former Clinton staffers in a move to the center

latimes 07-JAN-11

Unemployment rate drops to 9.4%, but December jobs report shows only modest gains

latimes 07-JAN-11

Daley to be Obama chief of staff

bbc 06-JAN-11

Republicans get control of US Congress

chinadaily 06-JAN-11

John Boehner promises 'more responsive' House as GOP takes over

latimes 05-JAN-11

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Resigns

NPRnews 05-JAN-11

House GOP takes aim at health plan

washtimes 04-JAN-11

Obama eyes ex-Clinton aide as top economic adviser

reuters 04-JAN-11

Who to watch in the new House of Representatives and Senate

guardian 03-JAN-11

Obama aides predict few Cabinet changes, more travel

latimes 27-DEC-10

Obama signs tax cuts bill

aljazeera 18-DEC-10

Senate nears key vote on Obama tax package

reuters 13-DEC-10

Devastating blow to President Obama as his own party rejects tax deal with Republicans

dailymail 09-DEC-10

Embrace democracy, PM urges China

bbc 10-NOV-10

Calls for ‘Creative Solution’ in Georgia’s Dispute over Russia WTO Entry

geotimes 20-OCT-10

Obama names close aide Tom Donilon as successor to NSA James Jones

app 09-OCT-10

Donilon to replace Jones as security adviser

cnn 08-OCT-10

Emanuel returns home – but no hero's welcome awaits

independent 02-OCT-10

Emanuel steps down for expected Chicago run

cnn 01-OCT-10

'The Social Network' deserves to go viral

cnn 01-OCT-10

Obama pressed to look at CEOs for Summers replacement

ft 23-SEP-10

Emanuel could leave next month

cnn 23-SEP-10

Key Obama economy adviser to quit

bbc 22-SEP-10

Wall Street ends lower on tech (Reuters)

news 22-SEP-10

Low inflation worries US Federal Reserve

independent 22-SEP-10

Larry Summers to Leave: First Reactions (The Atlantic Wire)

news 21-SEP-10

Opinion: Beijing is right to ignore the currency pleas

ft 20-SEP-10

China dispatches buying mission to US

ft 16-SEP-10

China blasts Japan, demands immediate release of fishing captain

cnn 14-SEP-10

Chinese Madonna hails from Cambs

thesun 11-SEP-10

Rights activists criticize China for hosting Myanmar leader

latimes 09-SEP-10

Row over Japan-China boat crash

bbc 08-SEP-10

China uncovers 200 fraudulent pilots

telegraph 06-SEP-10

Obama unveils $50 billion roads, rail and air plan to win votes

telegraph 06-SEP-10

Boehner calls for economic team sackings

ft 24-AUG-10

Key Obama economic adviser Romer stepping down

reuters 06-AUG-10

The New Republic: Dominating The China Market

NPRnews 19-JUL-10

Bill Clinton joins Barack Obama to boost popularity amid flagging polls

telegraph 15-JUL-10

Karzai backs new U.S. commander

cnn 26-JUN-10

U.S. pushes regulation at G20 as others focus on debt (Reuters)

news 26-JUN-10

US pushes G20 growth, Europe cautious

economictimes 24-JUN-10

Budget FactCheck: housing benefit and taxes

channel4news 23-JUN-10

Indian colonel killed in Kashmir clash

dawn 23-JUN-10

US Congress to question BP boss over spill

RTERadio 17-JUN-10

BP agrees to 16bn euro fund for oil spill victims

euronews 16-JUN-10

Italy announces austerity measures

cnn 26-MAY-10

GM sees first profit since 2007

bbc 17-MAY-10

Gold Rises to Record on Inflation Worries

IHT 12-MAY-10

Barack Obama promises to end bailouts 'once and for all'

telegraph 25-APR-10

Climate Bill Put on Hold Over Senate Dispute

CBSnews 25-APR-10

Senate scrambles to unite on finance reform bill

latimes 23-APR-10

Geithner China visit raises renminbi hopes

ft 07-APR-10

Greenspan: 'I was right 70 per cent of the time'

channel4news 07-APR-10

'Miracle' as dozens of trapped Chinese miners pulled to safety

telegraph 05-APR-10

[-said]: This is no time for complacency,

ABCnews 05-FEB-12

[-also said]: That’s why every day that the Congress fails to extend the payroll tax cut, every day that the Congress fails to extend the unemployment insurance is a day we’re taking more risk than we need to with this economy.

ABCnews 05-FEB-12

[-said]: Surely, this is the time when we need to protect the economy from the kind of mistakes that took place in the financial sector before,

ABCnews 05-FEB-12

[-added]: A ton of this is coming from the president’s policies,

ABCnews 05-FEB-12

[-said today]: Unlike many of the favorable past reports, if you look beneath the surface of this one almost every indicator within it is favorable,

bloomberg 05-FEB-12

[-noted that]: the right road.

usaToday 05-FEB-12

[ said]: I was surprised by how favorable these numbers were,

usaToday 05-FEB-12

[-said]: If you look beneath the surface of this one, almost every indicator within it is favorable.

ABCnews 05-FEB-12

[-said that]: that unlike in parts of Europe, where the economy is declining, in the United States the pace isn't everything we would want it to be, but the collapse that President Obama inherited really has been contained, and, albeit not as rapidly as we'd like, we are on an upwards path.

CBSnews 03-FEB-12

[ said]: Improvements in the unemployment rate, job creation, these are all positive things,[*]and there is a fair amount of evidence that pace has picked up over the last few months. Whether that will continue, whether we'll have another disappointment, uh, no one can know, but it's certainly better when the numbers are coming in a little ahead of expectation than when the numbers are disappointing.

CBSnews 03-FEB-12

[ said]: Make no mistake, Charlie, we still have a real jobs deficit in this country,

CBSnews 03-FEB-12

[ said]: One of the pieces of advice I've always given, to President Obama and others, is that confidence is the cheapest form of stimulus and that confidence coming in is gotta be a good sign, and as more people get hired, you know, economies are about spirals,

CBSnews 03-FEB-12

[ said]: I do think that we really are recovering,[*]that unlike in parts of Europe, where the economy is declining, in the United States the pace isn't everything we would want it to be, but the collapse that President Obama inherited really has been contained, and, albeit not as rapidly as we'd like, we are on an upwards path.

CBSnews 03-FEB-12

[ said]: It is both a recognition of what has been accomplished, and it points to the fact that Mark Zuckerberg has done a remarkable thing in building a global institution in a very short time,

ABCnews 02-FEB-12

[-said today]: educating girls,

bloomberg 27-JAN-12

[-said]: What should give a great deal of encouragement right now is that you see more people see their standards of living rise rapidly over the last decade than any time in human history and that for some of the most disadvantaged regions of the world,

bloomberg 27-JAN-12

[-wrote]: With a couple of weeks planning, they could achieve an orderly filing,

upi 25-JAN-12

[-recalled]: Sheryl always believed that if there were 30 things on her to-do list at the beginning of the day, there would be 30 check marks at the end of the day,

guardian 24-JAN-12

[ writes]: I suspect[*]that if and when macro-economic policies are appropriately adjusted, much of the contemporary concern will fade away.

upi 10-JAN-12

[-wrote]: From the problems of Britain and Italy in the 1970s, through the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s and the Mexican, Asian and Russian financial crises of the 1990s, the IMF has operated by twinning the provision of liquidity with strong requirements that those involved do what is necessary to restore their financial positions to sustainability,

xinhuanet_en 09-DEC-11

[-wrote]: FHFA has not acted on its conservatorship mandate to insure that the GSEs act to stabilize the nation's housing market, and taken no account of the reality that the narrow financial interest of the GSEs depends on a national housing recovery,

reuters 30-OCT-11

[-told]: If (you) were closer to it, you'd feel more strongly,

reuters 03-OCT-11

[-told]: If [you] were closer to it, you'd feel more strongly,

guardian 03-OCT-11

[-said]: There has, if anything, been too much collective belt tightening. Our challenge is ensuring that growth proceeds at a satisfactory rate in the years ahead,

reuters 25-SEP-11

[-said]: If a generous sovereign from Mars came down and paid off every penny of Greece's debt tomorrow, the fundamentals of Europe in crisis would not be altered,

npr 25-SEP-11

[-told]: This is the 20th annual meeting (of the IMF and World Bank) I've been privileged to attend. There has not been a prior meeting at which matters have had more gravity and at which I have been more concerned about the future of the global economy,

economictimes 25-SEP-11

[-told]: This is the 20th annual meeting [of the IMF and World Bank] I've been privileged to attend. There has not been a prior meeting at which matters have had more gravity and at which I have been more concerned about the future of the global economy,

mg 24-SEP-11

[-had told]: I mean it,

theglobeandmail 24-SEP-11

[-disagreed]: We are going to do this!

theglobeandmail 24-SEP-11

[-said]: We're home alone. There's no adult in charge. [Bill] Clinton would never have made these mistakes.

smh 23-SEP-11

[responded:]: What I'm happy to say is, the problems were immense, they were all coming at once, and there were not very many of us, and people were pulled in many, many different directions … And that's what I must have been referring to.

smh 23-SEP-11

[-wrote]: In normal circumstances comity would require deference by others to European authorities on the resolution of European problems. Now when these problems have the potential to disrupt growth around the world all nations have an obligation to insist that Europe find a viable way forward,

kathimerini 19-SEP-11

[ stated]: There are those today who would resist the process of international integration; that is a prescription for a more contentious and less prosperous world,

finanznachrichten 25-AUG-11

[-said]: State of the Union.

ChinaPost 09-AUG-11

[ said]: Look,[*]S&P's track record has been terrible and, as we've seen this weekend, their arithmetic is worse.

npr 08-AUG-11

[states that:]: the majority of the world's poorest people now live in countries with vast international financial reserves

rediff 08-AUG-11

[-said]: S&P's track record has been terrible and as we've seen this weekend its arithmetic is worse,

economictimes 08-AUG-11

[-said]: It was a symbolic and psychological event, an important one.

upi 07-AUG-11

[-said]: The odds of the economy going back into recession are at least one in three if nothing new is done to raise demand and spur growth,

news 03-AUG-11

[ said]: The right question to focus on is how to stimulate demand,

japantimes 27-JUL-11

[ said]: One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview,

rt 22-JUL-11

[said that:]: One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities.

rt 22-JUL-11

[-recalled]: Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind,

todayonline 21-JUL-11

[-wrote]: The alternative to forthright action today is much more expensive action -- to much less benefit -- in the not too distant future,

news 18-JUL-11

[-wrote]: There must be a clear and unambiguous commitment that whatever else happens, the failure of major financial institutions in any country will not be permitted,

news 18-JUL-11

[-wrote]: It is to be hoped that European officials can engineer a decisive change in direction but if not, the world can no longer afford the deference that the IMF and non-European G20 officials have shown toward European policy makers over the last 15 months,

news 18-JUL-11

[-wrote]: It is to be hoped that European officials can engineer a decisive change in direction but if not, the world can no longer afford the deference that the IMF and non-European G20 officials have shown toward European policymakers over the last 15 months,

news 18-JUL-11

[-said]: It seems to me an unthinkable financial risk to take,

nzherald 17-JUL-11

[-said]: I wouldn't be surprised if there was a moment of tension that served to remind everybody how cataclysmic the consequences would be if there was to be a default,

npr 01-JUL-11

[ said]: People everywhere have a stake in the success of the American project that I believe will flourish and reach new heights in the generation ahead,

peopledaily 23-JUN-11

[-wrote]: to U.S. creditworthiness was a sustained period of slow growth. This means that essential discussions about medium-term measures to restrain spending and raise revenues need to be coupled with a focus on near-term growth,

kuwaittimes 13-JUN-11

[-wrote]: Fiscal support should be continued and indeed expanded by providing the payroll tax cut to employers as well as employees,

economictimes 13-JUN-11

[-wrote]: This means that essential discussions about medium-term measures to restrain spending and raise revenues need to be coupled with a focus on near-term growth,

economictimes 13-JUN-11

[-said]: Barack Obama ran for president to restore America’s role in the world, reform our health care system, achieve energy independence, and prepare our children for a 21st century economy. He did not run for president to manage banks, insurance companies, or car manufacturers. The actions we take are those of necessity, not choice,

CBSnews 07-JUN-11

[-said]: I have to report myself as somewhat surprised, not by the long-run imperative of deficit reduction stressed in the most recent IMF fiscal monitor, but by the short-run urgency that the IMF's most recent fiscal monitor attaches to achieving deficit reduction,

reuters 14-APR-11

[-said]: the consequences for real economic activity would be most unfortunate,

reuters 14-APR-11

[-said]: Until and unless monetary conditions are sufficiently normal that one can suppose that they will offset fiscal action in the normal way, caution about excessively rapid fiscal adjustment is in order,

reuters 14-APR-11

[ said]: The decision was political, the judgment was we wanted to get as much fiscal stimulus we could ,

russiatoday 12-APR-11

[ said]: These kinds of ideas in sphere after sphere have had very important effects,

russiatoday 11-APR-11

[-said]: It is true that a major threat to Pepsi's superiority, in Pepsi's position, is the success of the Coca-Cola Company. It is true that a threat to the American automobile industry has been the success of the Japanese automobile industry. It is not true that the prosperity and growth of one country has a major deleterious effect on the growth of another,

chinadaily 25-MAR-11

[ said]: When your customers get richer, your opportunities improve. When your suppliers become more cost-efficient and are able to produce high-quality goods, your prosperity improves,

chinadaily 25-MAR-11

[-said]: It is true that a major threat to Pepsi's superiority, in Pepsi's position, is the success of the Coca-Cola company. It is true that a threat to American automobile industry has been the success of the Japanese automobile industry. It is not true that the prosperity and growth of one country has a major deleterious effect on growth of another,

chinadaily 24-MAR-11

[ said]: When your customers get richer, your opportunities improve. When your suppliers become more cost efficient and are able to produce high quality goods, your prosperity improves,

chinadaily 24-MAR-11

[ says]: When somebody writes the history of our time 50 or 100 years from now,

wsj 10-MAR-11

[-said]: I surely did not tell anyone to punch me in the face,

dailymail 08-MAR-11

[said:]: I’ve read somewhere, on occasion, that people think I can be arrogant. And, uh, I can’t imagine why. And if that is so, I probably was on that occasion. 'I’ve been told that the Winklevii say that the movie is wrong,

dailymail 08-MAR-11

[ said]: It will be the task of our governments to navigate in this turbulent water,

peopledaily 14-FEB-11

[-wrote]: Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world,

time 07-FEB-11