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06/23/2026
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The role of credit ratings agencies in the 2008 U.S. mortgage financial crisis
12/07/2008
Grouped Articles
Debt Watchdogs: Tamed or Caught Napping?
New York Times 12/07/2008
What Crisis? Big Ratings Firms Stronger Than Ever
Wall Street Journal 03/10/2016
Inequality in America in 2010-2014
12/06/2008
Grouped Articles
New York Times 09/12/2013
The Economy Needs a Bit of Ingenuity
New York Times 08/06/2010
New York Times 12/15/2013
Janet Yellen Warns of Inequality Threat
New York Times 10/17/2014
Bad Stock-Market Timing Fueled Wealth Disparity
Wall Street Journal 10/27/2014
Outside the Spotlight, Bill de Blasio Wages a War on Inequality
New York Times 01/08/2015
Money in U.S. politics- bundlers for the Obama 2012 presidential campaign
12/06/2008
Fundraising and financing for the Obama election campaign.
Grouped Articles
Voters’ Second Thoughts on Hope and Change
New York Times 11/04/2014
Hillary Clinton Bets on Future With Spending Spree to Build Campaign Infrastructure
New York Times 10/16/2015
In 24 hours after Iowa caucuses, Sanders donors pony up $3 million, aides say - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02/03/2016
Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street Talks Were Highly Paid, Friendly
Wall Street Journal 02/12/2016
Obama Grows More Reliant on Big-Money Contributors
New York Times 09/12/2012
Final Fundraising Tally for Obama Exceeded $750 Million
Washington Post 12/06/2008
Fundraising and its increasing role in U.S. presidential elections- 2008, 2012, 2016
12/06/2008
Grouped Articles
Final Fundraising Tally for Obama Exceeded $750 Million
Washington Post 12/06/2008
Big Bet Six Months Ago Paved Way for President
Wall Street Journal 11/07/2012
In 24 hours after Iowa caucuses, Sanders donors pony up $3 million, aides say - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02/03/2016
Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street Talks Were Highly Paid, Friendly
Wall Street Journal 02/12/2016
Government Bailout of Citigroup.
11/26/2008
The government bailout of Citigroup as it posts huge losses and its stock price sinks.
Grouped Articles
Citigroup Hits 'Penny Stock' Realm
Wall Street Journal 03/06/2009
Wall Street Journal 07/15/2014
How Citi's Fortunes are Tied to Housing's
BusinessWeek 11/26/2008
H-P, Citi Debt Offerings Bring in Billions
Wall Street Journal 12/03/2008
Citigroup Takes First Step Toward Breakup
Wall Street Journal 01/10/2009
Citigroup Ready to Shrink Itself by a Third
Wall Street Journal 01/14/2009
How the Obama Stimulus and Tax Cuts are being fashioned to get the most punch- 2008-2009
11/25/2008
The tax cuts of $300 billion to business and individuals will form part of the stimulus spending of some $800 billion. The idea is to get the money where its needed to help unemployment and the middle class without wasteful spending.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 09/06/2011
New York Times 02/15/2009
Obama Calls His Budget Needed Change
New York Times 03/01/2009
Can Obama Keep New Jobs at Home?
BusinessWeek 11/25/2008
Jon S. Corzine - A Bold Stimulus Package -- $1 Trillion Bold -- Is Needed
Washington Post 12/24/2008
For Stimulus Plan, Obama Team Weighing 'Green' Jobs vs. Traditional Projects
Washington Post 12/24/2008
Former Treasury Secretary Rubin and Citigroup
11/25/2008
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 11/25/2008
Rubin, Under Fire, Defends His Role at Citi
Wall Street Journal 11/29/2008
Trump Plans to Name Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary
WSJ 11/29/2016
Business leaders give their suggested actions for the Big Three automakers crisis.
11/18/2008
Welch of GE and others with the experience and insight into the problems involved in transformative change say what they see as a suggested action plan. The situation before the government led auto industry bailout and the planned bankrutptcy filings at GM and Chrysler.
Grouped Articles
U.S. Remaining Stake in General Motors
Wall Street Journal 12/10/2013
GM: The Case Against a Bailout
BusinessWeek 11/18/2008
Bailout Stand Trails Romney in Car Country
New York Times 02/19/2012
Pressing concerns of people in Germany.
11/17/2008
The changes going on in German life, society and culture. the concerns as the economic crisis hits Germany.
Grouped Articles
Germany’s Green Party Elects First Ethnic Turk as Leader
New York Times 11/17/2008
A New Chapter: Europe Is Ready to Work With Obama
New York Times 01/04/2009
Facing Losses, Billionaire Takes His Own Life
New York Times 01/07/2009
A Berliner’s Portraits of People and Her Familiar, and Foreign, Home
New York Times 01/08/2009
For Berlin Museum, a Modern Makeover That Doesn’t Deny the Wounds of War
New York Times 03/12/2009
Steven Pearlstein - A Rare Triumph of Substance at the Summit
Washington Post 04/03/2009
Obama advisor Rahm Emmanuel
11/11/2008
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 05/22/2013
Fouad Ajami: When the Obama Magic Died
Wall Street Journal 11/15/2013
Chicago Mayor’s Race Is Cast as a Test of Liberalism
New York Times 03/21/2015
The Reinvention of Rahm Emanuel
BusinessWeek 08/04/2011
Obama as a Hope, and as a President
New York Times 08/10/2011
A Machiavellian model for Obama - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/05/2011
Google's strategy during the 2008 global financial crisis
11/08/2008
Grouped Articles
Google at 10: Searching Its Own Soul
New York Times 11/08/2008
CVS Pricing.
11/06/2008
Grouped Articles
At the Supermarket Checkout, Frugality Trumps Brand Loyalty
Wall Street Journal 11/06/2008
Pharmacies Fight Tough Battle on Generic Prices
Wall Street Journal 12/22/2008
Drugstore Chains Insured Against Health Cuts
Wall Street Journal 04/05/2009
The 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement's landmark event- Martin Luther King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963
11/05/2008
Grouped Articles
Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era
New York Times 08/28/2013
Jamie Stiehm - Oval Office rug gets history wrong
Washington Post 09/04/2010
King’s words, all of them, to be restored - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/14/2012
A Time to Reap for Foot Soldiers of Civil Rights
New York Times 11/05/2008
For Obama and Indian Leader, a Friendly Stroll if Not a Full Embrace
New York Times 09/30/2014
The Obama reelection campaign and fundraising efforts
12/06/2008
Grouped Articles
Big Bet Six Months Ago Paved Way for President
Wall Street Journal 11/07/12
In 24 hours after Iowa caucuses, Sanders donors pony up $3 million, aides say - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02/03/16
New York Times 04/08/11
New York Times 04/11/11
Economic anxiety threatens Obama in 2012, but in poll he edges GOP rivals - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/19/11
Poll: More Americans disapprove of Obama’s management of Afghanistan war - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/26/11
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Andy Stern
12/06/2008
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 12/06/08
America's trade unions and decline in union bargaining power: 2010-2012
12/06/2008
Grouped Articles
Concessions Foreshadow a Tough Year for Unions
Wall Street Journal 01/04/09
Wall Street Journal 12/06/08
Public-Worker Unions Steel for Budget Fights
Wall Street Journal 02/14/11
In Wisconsin and Washington, budget battles reshape political landscape
Washington Post 02/19/11
Wall Street Journal 03/04/11
Organized Labor Hopes Attacks by Some States Help Nurture Comeback
New York Times 03/05/11
Private equity buyout firms and unemployment in the U.S.
11/26/2008
Grouped Articles
Buyout Firms Profited as a Company’s Debt Soared
New York Times 10/05/09
The peculiar debate over Mr. Romney’s business record - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/11/12
New York Times 01/10/12
As Romney Advances, Private Equity Becomes Part of the Debate
New York Times 01/10/12
Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and the gospel of ‘creative destruction’ - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/12/12
How Private Equity Strangled Mervyns
BusinessWeek 11/26/08
The loss of jobs under private equity
11/26/2008
Simmons and Mervyns are examples of loss of jobs and overloading companies with debt by private equity ending in bankruptcy. The debt crisis of 2008 made carrying large debt loads of the kind used by private equity dangerous because of the difficulty of finding financing. According to Standard and Poors/LCD Group private equity loaded $741 billion onto firms balance sheets between 2005 and 2008. Debt soared with the low interest rates and high liquidity environment preceding the crisis. In the 2008 financial crisis many of these companies with high debt loads went bankrupt- 66 of 105 companies that went into bankruptcy that year were under private equity firms according to Capital IQ. Private Equity can also operate in the manner of venture capital as in the Staples investment by Bain Capital. Jobs created in retail firms in this case are lower wage less skilled jobs.
Grouped Articles
How Private Equity Strangled Mervyns
BusinessWeek 11/26/08
Mitt Romney and our overdue debate about capitalism - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/12/12
The Benefits of Bain Capitalism
New York Times 01/14/12
Appetite for (Creative?) Destruction
Wall Street Journal 01/13/12
One Way to Look at Private Equity
New York Times 01/17/12
Romney Unveils Own Income-Tax Rate: 15%
Wall Street Journal 01/18/12
Federal Reserve's $800 billion rescue for mortgage and consumer debt securities markets in October 2008.
11/25/2008
October 2008 was the month when consumer debt securites market collapsed, with dire consequences for GM and other businesses. The Fed stepped in with $200 billion of money for investors to buy these securities and also set up its own effort to buy $600 billion of mortgage securities from Fannie and Freddie.
Grouped Articles
Putting the Hit on Fannie, Freddie
Wall Street Journal 03/12/14
Senators Draft Housing Finance Overhaul
New York Times 03/11/14
New Facility Targets Consumer Lending
Wall Street Journal 11/25/08
Fed Aid Sets Off a Rush to Refinance
Wall Street Journal 11/26/08
Fear Recedes in the Debt Markets
Wall Street Journal 11/26/08
U.S. Consumer Loan Aid Will Trickle Only So Far
New York Times 11/27/08
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
11/23/2008
Grouped Articles
New York Times 01/13/09
Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk
New York Times 11/23/08
Rubin, Under Fire, Defends His Role at Citi
Wall Street Journal 11/29/08
Wall Street Journal 11/25/08
Trump Plans to Name Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary
WSJ 11/29/16
Housing's supply side in the U.S. even as inventory is building- 2010-2012
11/17/2008
Grouped Articles
In struggling housing market, buyers and sellers are out of sync
Washington Post 09/05/10
Housing Supply Side Needs a Reality Test
Wall Street Journal 11/17/08
Harsh Reality of House Glut Hitting Home
Wall Street Journal 11/19/08
EconoChat: Tom Keene and Karl Case On Housing
BusinessWeek 05/27/10
Housing: Stuck and Staying Stuck
Wall Street Journal 09/24/10
Wall Street Journal 12/29/10
The Citigroup Rescue in November 2008.
11/13/2008
A Morgan Stanley type bear raid by short sellers on Citigroup shares with 50% of share value lost in a few days. Pandit of Citi desperately asks for reinstatement of the uptick rule to prevent short seller raids.
Grouped Articles
Citigroup Hits 'Penny Stock' Realm
Wall Street Journal 03/06/09
U.S. Settles Mortgage Inquiry for $7 Billion
New York Times 07/14/14
Old Lane Managers Look for Exit From Citi
Wall Street Journal 12/24/08
Citi Directors Mull Replacing Chairman
Wall Street Journal 11/13/08
Worst May Be Yet to Come for Citigroup
New York Times 11/14/08
New York Times 11/16/08
U.S. President Obama and his closest advisors- Plouffe, Emanuel and others
11/11/2008
The closest advisors also tell something about the President's style, thinking and the nature of the conduct of the Presidential office.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 05/22/13
Fouad Ajami: When the Obama Magic Died
Wall Street Journal 11/15/13
Geithner Book Reveals Consensus, Not VIsion, During Financial Crisis
New York Times 05/21/14
Plouffe, Obama Aide, Lends Firm Hand to Campaign
New York Times 02/20/12
Combative Top Democrat Gains Clout in Campaign
Wall Street Journal 02/16/12
Emanuel Remark Prompts Apology
Wall Street Journal 02/04/10
With Obama's election as President and Democrats control of Congress in 2008, a changing picture.
11/06/2008
Effect on energy, emissions, health care, drug industry, free trade highway bill and other areas as the Democrats take the White House and Congress in 2008.
Grouped Articles
New FDA Leaders Could Be Tougher on Drug Makers
Wall Street Journal 11/06/08
New Highway Bill Comes Up as Transport Money Dries
Wall Street Journal 11/06/08
Free Trade Is Likely to Slow, With Pending Pacts Uncertain
Wall Street Journal 11/06/08
Mergers to Get a Closer Look Amid New Antitrust Stance
Wall Street Journal 11/06/08
Medicare, Medicaid Deficits Loom Over Health Priorities
Wall Street Journal 11/06/08
Energy Policies Come Up Against Green Initiatives
Wall Street Journal 11/06/08
Hilton IPO
11/05/2008
Grouped Articles
Hilton Files for IPO of up to $1.25 Billion
Wall Street Journal 09/12/13
Hilton Files for IPO of up to $1.25 Billion
Wall Street Journal 09/13/13
Blackstone's Inauspicious Timing: Hilton Buyout
Wall Street Journal 11/05/08
Hilton Debt Load Weighs on Blackstone
Wall Street Journal 10/29/09
Hilton's Revival Boosts Blackstone
Wall Street Journal 02/02/11
In Hilton IPO a Losing Deal Turns Around
New York Times 09/12/13
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