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06/23/2026
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Xi Jinping Tariff Negotiating Strategy with US Groups
Arne Duncan and the Education Department's plan to save $87 billion going to banks for subsidies to make student loans.
01/28/2009
Arne Duncan wants to use the funds to help low income students and community colleges.
Grouped Articles
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
College Tuition Increases Slow, but Government Aid Falls
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2013
Escaping the constraints of ‘No Child Left Behind’ - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/07/2012
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2015
Banks Don't Belong in the Student Loan Business
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2009
For-Profit College Grads Also Earn a Life of Debt
BusinessWeek 01/06/2011
Revolving door for officials in U.S. government and regulatory authorites, the S.E.C., the Federal Reserve, and the large banks.
01/28/2009
Orszag, budget director in the Obama administration, joins Citigroup. A senior official at the New York Fed's regulatory department joins Goldman Sachs. Another Fed official joins Morgan Stanley as chief economist. S.E.C. enforcement chief leaves Deutsche Bank for the S.E.C. and leaves the S.E.C. for a position in the financial industry. The nominee for S.E.C. chief in 2013, Jo White, represented JP Morgan Chase in her work at a law firm. The nominee for Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, worked at Citigroup for a short period. A similiar situation exists in the UK and in other EU countries.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/27/2011
SEC's Top Cop Oversaw Deutsche CDOs
Wall Street Journal 04/24/2010
The Power Behind the Throne at the Federal Reserve
New York Times 07/31/2013
SEC Deals With Turnover at the Top
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
SEC Tries to Rebuild Its Reputation
Wall Street Journal 09/12/2013
SEC 'Revolving Door' Under Review
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2010
Room for Debate in the New York Times- format for expert opinion and reader comments
01/27/2009
Grouped Articles
A strong Signal on Global Warming
New York Times 01/27/2009
Robert Shiller and "winter on the family farm" as a metaphor in tough economic times instead of "tightening the family belt"
01/27/2009
Shiller cites the "balanced budget theorem" of Salant and the economist Paul Samuelson during the FDR period. This showed that with taxes and expenditures going up during tough economic times the higher output leads to national income increasing by the amount of the tax. French president Hollande's plan to hire 60,000 teachers is of this kind, says shiller, because the higher taxes on incomes over 1 million euros supporting the hiring would increase national income by that amount.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2013
Fear of a Double Dip Could Cause One
New York Times 05/14/2010
Robert Shiller: A Skeptic and a Nobel Winner
New York Times 10/19/2013
How to Fix the Economy: An Expert Panel
BusinessWeek 09/16/2010
France's Hollande Replaces Prime Minister Ayrault with Manuel Valls
Wall Street Journal 04/01/2014
How National Belt-Tightening Goes Awry - Economic View
New York Times 05/19/2012
John Taylor on U.S. Federal Reserve policies and booms and busts in the U.S. economy and no clear exit strategy
01/27/2009
Taylor points out that the dual mandate for maintaining unemployment and inflation goals has led to discretionary policies that have hurt the economy by leading to booms and busts. He calls for a single mandate on inflation goals. Taylor provides advice on the Romney Plan.
Grouped Articles
Martin Feldstein: The Federal Reserve's Policy Dead End
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
Once Again, the Fed Shies Away From the Exit Door
Wall Street Journal 07/11/2013
Bhidé and Phelps: Central Banking Needs Rethinking
Wall Street Journal 07/16/2013
Sluggish Economic Recovery Proves Resilient
Wall Street Journal 04/21/2014
The Dangers of an Interventionist Fed
Wall Street Journal 03/29/2012
S.&P. 500 Dips After Fed Signals No New Stimulus
New York Times 04/04/2012
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
01/27/2009
Grouped Articles
New York Times 07/21/2011
From 1889 to 2014, Political Parallels Abound
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2014
Wall Street Journal 06/03/2012
F.D.R’s Example Offers Obama Cautionary Lessons
New York Times 01/27/2009
Why high unemployment and the high percentage of the long term unemployed is determining U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate policy in 2012-2014
01/27/2009
With 40% of the unemployed in the U.S. shown as long term unemployed, mismatch in skills and other structural problems with unemployment, the U.S. Federal Reserve policies of Fed chairman Bernanke are geared to addressing this problem.
Grouped Articles
Stimulus and the Depression: The Untold Story
Wall Street Journal 09/26/2011
Fed Officials Try to Set the Market at Ease
Wall Street Journal 06/24/2013
Wall Street Journal 07/11/2013
FX HORIZONS: The Fed’s Risky Codependency with Markets
Wall Street Journal 07/11/2013
Bernanke Plays Down Link Between Jobless Rate, Fed Moves
Wall Street Journal 07/18/2013
Economy May Be Getting Its Wings Clipped
Wall Street Journal 07/30/2013
How the 1937 Pullback under FDR affects current economic policy under Bernanke and Yellen
01/27/2009
Economic policies under FDR in the 1930's. The Fed's Bernanke is acutely aware of the 1937 pullback and its lessons. This will influence current policy.
Grouped Articles
Tomorrow's Recession Recovery Is Today's History Lesson
Wall Street Journal 03/03/2009
Fed's Yellen Defends Low Rates
Wall Street Journal 07/03/2014
Recognizing Bubbles But Still Cautious About Deflating Them
New York Times 09/10/2014
Janet Yellen Isn’t Going to Raise Interest Rates Until She’s Good and Ready
New York Times 03/18/2015
Policy Makers Seek to Learn From 1937's Stalled Comeback
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2009
How the Fed Can Avoid the Next Bubble
Wall Street Journal 10/06/2009
The 9/11 court for Guantanamo
01/27/2009
Grouped Articles
The Lower Manhattan revival, now featuring One World Trade Center - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/01/2014
U.S. Transfers Six Prisoners From Guantanamo Bay to Uruguay
Wall Street Journal 12/07/2014
Uruguay Accepts 6 Detainees Held at Guantánamo
New York Times 12/07/2014
Obama’s Plan for Guantánamo Is Seen Faltering
New York Times 07/21/2015
Frustrated in Efforts to Close Guantánamo Prison, Officials Look to Reduce Population
New York Times 12/02/2015
G.O.P. Goes Astray on Guantánamo. So Does Obama.
New York Times 03/06/2016
Deborah Solomon asks a former U.S. S.E.C. Commissioner Levitt some daunting questions about life and public service
01/25/2009
A must read! Levitt is asked to compare his work and public service with his dad's. What is the role of a public servant in the 21st century?
Grouped Articles
'Influence Peddling' Makes the World Go Round
Wall Street Journal 12/26/2013
New York Times 01/25/2009
Currency issues and U.S.-China trade.
01/23/2009
Trade between the USA and China and currency issues. Obama administration's efforts to address currency issues and fair trade issues with other countries.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/04/2011
Europeâs Debt Crisis Is Casting a Shadow Over China
New York Times 05/17/2010
The Long View of Changes in Chinaâs Currency
New York Times 09/21/2010
An Accord (and Lessons) to Remember
Wall Street Journal 09/21/2010
US-China trade relations: Speak less softly, carry a stick
Economist 09/25/2010
Obama Promotes Benefits of Trade Deals to Workers and Smaller Businesses
New York Times 02/26/2015
Sweden's approach to its banking crisis which included taking over banks
01/23/2009
Grouped Articles
Sweden’s Fix for Banks: Nationalize Them
New York Times 01/23/2009
UK economy: 2010-2011
01/22/2009
Grouped Articles
U.K. Economy Suffers a Reversal
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2011
Britainâs Economy Stalls, in Setback for Cameron
New York Times 01/25/2011
Britannia Not Cool, But Not Undone
Wall Street Journal 01/22/2009
New Faces in the U.S. Fed's inner circle
01/28/2009
The new faces next to Fed chairman Bernanke. This includes Janet Yellen, former president of the San Francisco Fed, and William Dudley of the New York Fed. They replace Donald Kohn and Geithner.
Grouped Articles
Fed's Yellen, Husband Worth Up to $13.2 Million in 2012
Wall Street Journal 08/28/13
Federal Reserve Brain Trust: Who's In, Who's Out
Wall Street Journal 03/15/11
A Dodd-Frank Retreat Deserves a Veto
Wall Street Journal 07/20/11
Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter
New York Times 01/12/12
Key Player in Fed's Crisis Response Is Leaving
Wall Street Journal 04/06/12
Wall Street Journal 12/13/12
Professor Bernanke, Bernanke's writings before becoming Fed chairman
01/27/2009
Bernanke's thoughts on the banking crisis in Japan after a real estate bubble like that the U.S. is experiencing.
Grouped Articles
Reflections by America’s Buddha of Banking
New York Times 01/16/14
Tomorrow's Recession Recovery Is Today's History Lesson
Wall Street Journal 03/03/09
Chairman Bernanke Should Listen to Professor Bernanke
New York Times 04/24/12
Fed chief Bernanke urges better financial regulation to prevent crises
Washington Post 01/04/10
Wall Street Journal 12/13/12
A Fed Bank President's Idea Comes to Life
Wall Street Journal 12/13/12
Economic policy changes under FDR and lessons for the U.S. in 2011-2012
01/27/2009
Grouped Articles
New York Times 07/21/11
Stimulus and the Depression: The Untold Story
Wall Street Journal 09/26/11
F.D.R’s Example Offers Obama Cautionary Lessons
New York Times 01/27/09
U.S. Coal Industry
01/27/2009
Grouped Articles
In the Midwest, Coal Stages a Comeback
Wall Street Journal 05/05/13
Coal Falls Out of Favor As Utilities Go 'Green'
Wall Street Journal 04/23/10
Heard on the Street: U.S. Coal vs. the World
Wall Street Journal 09/22/13
In Appalachia, Coal Struggles to Compete With Natural Gas
Wall Street Journal 11/30/13
The Poor Need Cheap Fossil Fuels
New York Times 12/03/13
Cheap Natural Gas Unplugs U.S. Nuclear-Power Revival
Wall Street Journal 03/15/12
The U.S. coal mining industry 2005-2013
01/27/2009
The U.S. coal mining industry surged with the demand for metallurgical coal from the Chinese steel industry. Prices reached a high of $330 after the floods in Australia's Queensland coal producing region in 2011. Now prices have dropped by half with the return of Australian coal and the slowdown in China. This is resulting in layoffs in the coal industry and hard times in W. Virginia and the Appalachian coal mining region in 2012.
Grouped Articles
In the Midwest, Coal Stages a Comeback
Wall Street Journal 05/05/13
Coal Falls Out of Favor As Utilities Go 'Green'
Wall Street Journal 04/23/10
Heard on the Street: U.S. Coal vs. the World
Wall Street Journal 09/22/13
Colombia, China Close In on Coal and Railway Deal
Wall Street Journal 10/18/13
In Appalachia, Coal Struggles to Compete With Natural Gas
Wall Street Journal 11/30/13
The New Future for American Coal: Export It
Wall Street Journal 03/20/14
John Taylor and other experts on the U.S. budget, deficits, and private investment for jobs
01/27/2009
Taylor asks why the U.S. cannot get by on a budget that is 20% of GDP, when this is what the budget was in 2007 and GDP is much larger today. He says private investment can do a better job reducing unemployment and creating a growing U.S. economy. Taylor provides advice on the Romney Plan.
Grouped Articles
Bhidé and Phelps: Central Banking Needs Rethinking
Wall Street Journal 07/16/13
Obama's Permanent Spending Binge
Wall Street Journal 04/22/11
Five Lessons for Deficit Busters
Wall Street Journal 06/20/11
Wall Street Journal 06/27/11
Charlie Rose Talks to Robert Rubin
BusinessWeek 08/04/11
Washington Post 08/07/11
Guantanamo
01/27/2009
Grouped Articles
U.S. Transfers Six Prisoners From Guantanamo Bay to Uruguay
Wall Street Journal 12/07/14
Uruguay Accepts 6 Detainees Held at Guantánamo
New York Times 12/07/14
Obama’s Plan for Guantánamo Is Seen Faltering
New York Times 07/21/15
Frustrated in Efforts to Close Guantánamo Prison, Officials Look to Reduce Population
New York Times 12/02/15
G.O.P. Goes Astray on Guantánamo. So Does Obama.
New York Times 03/06/16
New York Times 12/18/09
U.S. Federal Reserve's 6.5% unemployment target with 2% inflation announced by Bernanke in Dec. 2012
01/27/2009
The U.S. Fed's chairman Bernanke says the Fed will keep rates low till unemployment reaches 6.5% citing "the tremendous waste in human potential" of high unemplyment rates. As long as inflation remains subdued at 2% the Fed will continue its current policy of low rates. In 2013 the Fed will continue bond buying at the rate of $85 billion a month. If unemployment drops to 6.5%, but this is because more people are dropping out of the labor market the Fed will take this into account, says Bernanke. The Fed will also keep an eye out for asset bubbles in the economy.
Grouped Articles
Stimulus and the Depression: The Untold Story
Wall Street Journal 09/26/11
Fed Officials Try to Set the Market at Ease
Wall Street Journal 06/24/13
Wall Street Journal 07/05/13
Wall Street Journal 07/11/13
FX HORIZONS: The Fed’s Risky Codependency with Markets
Wall Street Journal 07/11/13
Bernanke Plays Down Link Between Jobless Rate, Fed Moves
Wall Street Journal 07/18/13
Arthur Levitt on requiring term limits for firms doing audits of corporate finances
01/25/2009
Grouped Articles
'Influence Peddling' Makes the World Go Round
Wall Street Journal 12/26/13
Keeping Auditors on Their Toes
Wall Street Journal 10/19/11
New York Times 01/25/09
Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank
01/23/2009
Grouped Articles
World Bank Chief Urges Euro Bonds
Wall Street Journal 05/31/12
Li Keqiang, China’s next premier, carries reformers’ hopes - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/10/12
A Stimulus Package for the World
New York Times 01/23/09
Opinion | Mission Impossible: World Bank
WSJ 02/06/19
The World Bank's Zoellick and the idea of a vulnerability fund for the poor in 2008-2009
01/23/2009
Grouped Articles
World Bank, in a changed economy, pushes focus to building a middle class - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/13
A Stimulus Package for the World
New York Times 01/23/09
Thain of Merrill, the NYSE and Goldman Sachs
01/23/2009
Grouped Articles
Pain of Thain Falls Mainly on Merrill
Wall Street Journal 06/06/13
Thain Resigns Amid Losses at Bank of America
New York Times 01/23/09
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