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Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:34 PM

National Economic Council

Type: Organization

Name: National Economic Council

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Republican Party (US)

2 More: GOP Lawmakers Want Geithner's Head

'It's been a year since the president was elected,' the panel's ranking , said at a hearing this morning featuring Geithner. 'It's appropriate for the American people to assess how well the administration's economic policies are working. They are not. ... [ABC News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Ed Schultz, National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Timothy F Geithner

Two Republicans Call for Geithner's Resignation, Echo Democrat's Comments

Echoing comments made by a Democratic lawmaker Wednesday night, two Republican members of the Joint Economic Committee today called for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to resign.Two Republicans call for the treasury secretary's resignation during ... [ABC News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Timothy F Geithner, Resignation, Peter DeFazio, Kevin Brady, Ed Schultz

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Rajiv Shah

The foreign-aid fight goes on

The State Department and Congress don'tsee eye to eye on how to move forward with foreign-aid reform, but atleast one Senator is firmly siding with Foggy Bottom: Jim Webb.When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approvedthe Kerry-Lugar foreign aid ... [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Foreign Aid, Foreign Assistance, Rajiv Shah, Jim Webb, John Kerry

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Rethinking the way on infrastructure

With the specter of a jobless recovery looming, Washington has been casting about for ways to put Americans back to work. In the process, the political class has re-discovered infrastructure.Just this past week leaders in Congress and the president’s ... [The Hill - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Precise Time, President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, National Infrastructure, National Economic Council

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Rethinking the Way on Infrastructure

Infrastructure, U.S. Economic Growth, U.S. Economy, Labor Markets, UnemploymentBruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy ProgramRobert Puentes, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy ProgramThe HillEditor's note: This publication originally ... [Brookings Institution - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Infrastructure, Bruce Katz, Precise Time, President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board

First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 1 Documents

Barack Obama

Exclusive: Oval Office Watch Saturday, November 14

The Wall separates Reagan from Obama - HERE.Fatal reluctance to see evil - GO HERE.Were They Duped Or Were They Stupid?Bruce Bialosky, Townhall.comIn the 2008 presidential election, young adults voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. This voting pattern ... [Family Security Matters - 11/14/2009]

Entities: Lawrence B. Lindsey, Barack Obama, Reuel Marc Gerecht, John McCain

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

Work on Barisal River Port Development Project begins next month

Work on Barisal River Port Development Project will begin next month at a cost of about Tk 18 crore after procrastination of over a half century since 1964.Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved the project on October 14 ... [Individual.com - 11/17/2009]

Entities: National Economic Council

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Market News)

The government hearts debt

The ongoing economic crisis has been, in every way, a crisis of debt. The banks were brought down by mortgage debt. Wall Street -- and, quite nearly, the economy -- was brought down by leverage. But as James Surowiecki writes, "Debt didn’t get dangerously ... [Ezra Klein - 11/18/2009]

Entities: James Surowiecki, Mortgages, Jason Furman

First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/13/2009 - 4 Documents (in Economy)

U.S. debt sinks the dollar -- but gold really shines

One of the many television commercials exhorting viewers to buy gold says solemnly that it is an asset whose value "has never dropped to zero," a boast that surely sets a record for minimalism. Still, the world's appetite for gold as an investment option ... [Chicago Tribune - 11/13/2009]

Entities: Inflation, Lawrence Lindsey, United States, Irwin Stelzer

First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 2 Documents

US recovery on track

WASHINGTON: The US economy is firmly poised for a recovery from its deep recession but growth may be moderate and the job market will not revive immediately, senior White House aide Lawrence Summers predicted on Wednesday.“There’s really no doubt that ... [Economictimes - 10/22/2009]

Entities: Lawrence Summers, National Economic Council, Beleaguered, US Dollar

First Reported 10/29/2009 - Updated 10/29/2009 - 2 Documents

Summers: Economy turning corner

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Data showing the U.S. economy grew 3.5 percent in the third quarter confirms the United States is 'turning the corner' after a deep recession, senior White House aide Lawrence Summers said on Thursday.Summers, who heads the White ... [Reuters - 10/29/2009]

Entities: Lawrence Summers, National Economic Council, United States, Recession, Taxes

First Reported 11/13/2009 - Updated 11/13/2009 - 2 Documents

Obama Shirks Responsibility for Disastrous Policies

Of the many thoughts I had watching President Barack Obama's umpteenth speech on the economy Thursday morning, the most troubling was his refusal to accept responsibility for his disastrous policies.With unemployment having soared to 10.2 percent, wouldn't ... [NewsMax.com - 11/13/2009]

Entities: Taxes, Barack Obama, David Limbaugh, Jared Bernstein, Unemployment

Quotes

...same day, Lawrence Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council, told a gathering of American and Korean business officials, "The U S government is preparing for the ratification of the Korea-U.S free trade agreement." Korea and the U S signed the bilateral trade pact in June of 2007. But two and a half years later, the FTA still remains unratified...

Upcoming Korea-U.S. Summit an Opportunity to Ratify Bilateral FTA [Digital Chosun - 19 hours ago]

...DeFazio told Schultz that President Obama is "being failed by his economic team. We may have to sacrifice just two more jobs to get millions back for Americans."

Two Republicans Call for Geithner's Resignation, Echo Democrat's Comments [ABC News - 11/19/2009]

... These policies have been around a long time, but as Surowiecki says, we shouldn't mistake longevity for permanence. "In the U S , people used to be able to write off the interest they paid on credit cards. That tax break was abolished in 1986, and, the same year, the mortgage-interest deduction, which used to be unlimited, was capped. Great Britain, meanwhile, abolished its mortgage tax breakbreak in 2000. Similarly, there are a number of countries, including Brazil and Belgium, that don’t give corporate debt a tax advantage over equity, while, just last year, both Germany and Denmark cut back sharply on their business-interest tax breaks, limiting how much interest companies can write off." The economic crisis has led to a lot of huge policy responses, but not much in the way of policy changes...

The government hearts debt [Ezra Klein - 11/18/2009]

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Rethinking the Way on Infrastructure [Brookings Institution - 11 hours ago]
Upcoming Korea-U.S. Summit an Opportunity to Ra... [Digital Chosun - 19 hours ago]
Rethinking the way on infrastructure [The Hill - 11/20/2009]
The foreign-aid fight goes on [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/19/2009]
2 More: GOP Lawmakers Want Geithner's Head [ABC News - 11/19/2009]
Two Republicans Call for Geithner's Resignation... [ABC News - 11/19/2009]
Geithner's Got To Go? Bipartisan Blast to Get T... [ABC News - 11/19/2009]
TWO REPUBLICANS TO TREASURY SECTY GEITHNER: Resign [ABC News - 11/19/2009]
UPDATE:AmEx To Expand Pre-Paid Card Options Wit... [CNN Money - 11/18/2009]
In Obama Trip, Signs of New Era in China Relations [New York Times - 11/17/2009]
Work on Barisal River Port Development Project ... [Individual.com - 11/17/2009]
German-funded safe blood transfusion project re... [The News International - 11/17/2009]
James Surowiecki: The Debt Economy [New Yorker - 11/16/2009]
10-Year Anniversary of the Bill That Led to the... [AllGov - 11/15/2009]
Work on Tk 180m Barisal River Port Dev Project ... [Financial Express Bangladesh - 11/14/2009]
Exclusive: Oval Office Watch Saturday, Novembe... [Family Security Matters - 11/14/2009]
Will China Eat Our Lunch? [Forbes.com - 11/13/2009]
George Will: U.S. debt sinks the dollar -- bu... [Chicago Tribune - 11/13/2009]
Obama Shirks Responsibility for Disastrous Poli... [NewsMax.com - 11/13/2009]
Mugabe's party sets tone for inter-party negoti... [Xinhua News Agency - 11/13/2009]
David Limbaugh combats Obama notion that 'saved... [WorldNetDaily - 11/13/2009]
N200 Billion Ecological Fund [editorial] [Individual.com - 11/13/2009]
U.S. debt sinks the dollar -- but gold really... [Chicago Tribune - 11/13/2009]
The China dollar [National Post - 11/13/2009]
PCPCC Summit Highlights Growing Support for Pat... [American Family Physician - 11/12/2009]
LaHood Announces Formation Of Airline Industry ... [Nasdaq - 11/12/2009]
Will: Soaring U.S. debt load is making gold loo... [Houston Chronicle - 11/12/2009]
George F. Will on debt and the dollar [Washington Post - 11/12/2009]
Debt is destroying the dollar [Washington Post - 11/12/2009]
It doesn't pay for Haredi men to work [Haaretz - 11/12/2009]

Blogs

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The government hearts debt [Ezra Klein - 11/18/2009] The ongoing economic crisis has been, in every way, a crisis of debt. The banks were brought down by mortgage debt. Wall Street -- and, quite nearly, the economy ...
Spitzer Tells Harvard Crowd Resigning Was "... [Gothamist - 11/13/2009] Yesterday, former governor Eliot Spitzer spoke at Harvard University's ethics center to discuss big business and government, much to the dismay of one of the madams ...
November 8 2009: The Jobs Doom Loop [The Automatic Earth - 11/08/2009] National Photo Co. Daddy, you promised me ice cream! June 28, 1923Girl in bathing suit, Washington, D.C. Ilargi: The Obama administration claims to have created ...
While we rail at MPs, the City gets away with m... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/08/2009] Nobody benefits more from our emasculated MPs than tax-avoiding plutocrats and bonus banditsLuck rather than a conspiracy explains why the newspaper that broke the ...
Harvard Derivatives Whistleblower: Larry Summer... [Clusterstock - 11/06/2009] William D. Cohan profiles Larry Summers in the December issue of Vanity Fair and confirms what we've long known: the star economic counselor has been his own worst ...

Audio/Video

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U.S.: John Harwood Interviews Larry Summers - n... [The New York Times - YouTube - 10/22/2009]
Summers defends recovery efforts [Reuters Video: Top News - 07/17/2009]
Summers defends recovery efforts [Reuters Video: Business - 07/17/2009]
What interview questions did D.E. Shaw ask Larr... [Slate Magazine - 04/07/2009]

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