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Obama to back company tax breaks
President Barack Obama is to back new company tax breaks in a bid to regain the initiative as mid-term polls loom. He will lobby Congress - including a blocking minority ...
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bbc.co.uk
1 day ago
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Monetary illusions : Central bankers are not magicians. Don’t count on them to conjure up remedies if the rich economies flag
OVER the past few years the reputations of the rich world’s central bankers have fluctuated wildly. When the financial crisis struck, they were blamed for allowing the housing and credit ...
America, US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Germany, Bank of England, All keywords...
economist.com
5 days ago
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Business this week :
Ben Bernanke told economists and central bankers at a meeting in Jackson Hole that the Federal Reserve would resume “unconventional measures” if the economy deteriorated again. The chairman of America’s ...
China, Britain, USD, Apple, America, All keywords...
economist.com
5 days ago
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In Ireland, Dangers Still Loom
Peter Boone is chairman of the charity Effective Intervention and a research associate at the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is also a principal ...
Ireland, Portugal, Greece, International Monetary Fund, Europe, All keywords...
economix.blogs.nytimes.com
1 week ago
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Bernanke Testifying to Crisis Inquiry Panel
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is set to appear before a panel investigating the financial crisis to give his take on the meltdown and his views on potential systemwide risks ...
Ben Bernanke, US Federal Reserve, The Associated Press, Chairman, Bank, All keywords...
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com
1 week ago
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Monetarists Follow Milton Friedman to the Grave: Caroline Baum
Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, died in 2006. Monetarism, the school of thought he founded, seems to have died with him, judging from recent comments. Academics, such as Princeton’s ...
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bloomberg.com
1 week ago
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Oil Should Be Around $10 a Barrel: Analyst
The price of a barrel of oil would be closer to $10 if the commodity wasn't traded as an investment instrument, given the record-high levels of U.S. oil inventories, Peter ...
USD, Oil, Peter Beutel, Yahoo!, Analyst, All keywords...
finance.yahoo.com
1 week ago
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How Obama Got Rolled by Wall Street
The president proudly called the new law “the toughest financial reform since the one we created in the aftermath of the Great Depression.” What Obama left unsaid was that his ...
Barack Obama, Tim Geithner, President, Larry Summers, US Federal Reserve, All keywords...
newsweek.com
1 week ago
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Bargain hunters boost shares
The combination of the two factors sent stocks reeling and caused a surge of safe-haven buying of the U.S. dollar. Oil and gold prices also fell. But those losses proved ...
Ben Bernanke, Intel Corp, Tokyo, USD, S&P 500, All keywords...
reuters.com
1 week ago
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Bank of England will use 'all powers' to stave off any future crisis
In a major position paper, Charles Bean said that the Bank had been powerless to prevent what he called the "Great Contraction" of 2008 because control of interest rates was ...
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telegraph.co.uk
1 week ago
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This Is Not a Recovery
The administration has less freedom of action, since it can’t get legislation past the Republican blockade. But it still has options. It can revamp its deeply unsuccessful attempt to aid ...
US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Obama administration, Chairman, Wyoming, All keywords...
nytimes.com
1 week ago
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The hindenburg omen is scary but so are the fundamentals
Another down day on Wall Street Thursday sent the Dow below 10,000 for the first time since early July. Fear in the market is being expressed by the continued rally ...
Jim Miekka, US Federal Reserve, Europe, Yahoo!, Treasuries, All keywords...
finance.yahoo.com
1 week ago
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Ben Bernanke faces pressure to prop up US economic recovery
When Ben Bernanke addresses the annual symposium of central bankers in Jackson Hole tomorrow he does so against arguably the most challenging backdrop in his tenure as Federal Reserve chairman. ...
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guardian.co.uk
1 week ago
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Is QE2 finally the economic collapse?
The Great Depression. Wall Street in 1987. Japan in 1997. Points of economic collapse are generally crystal clear in the rear-view mirror. Professional politicians in Japan have been telling stories ...
United States, Hedgeye, Japan, US Treasury, US Federal Reserve, All keywords...
money.cnn.com
4 weeks ago
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To Viktor go the spoils: how Hungary blazes a trail in Europe
The government of Hungary has taken on a lot of powerful interests in the last couple of months, and so far appears to be winning – despite provoking outrage from ...
Hungary, International Monetary Fund, Viktor Orban, Orban government, United States, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
4 weeks ago
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