MSNBC:
“Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration,” the Washington Post writes. “President Obama's allies in the Congressional Black Caucus, exasperated by the administrat (Read More)
New York Times:
A variety of economists say that economic stimulus legislation is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sounds like Pfizer’s pushing further into the generic drugs business.New agreements between Pfizer and Aurobindo of India could be coming in the next month or two, Dow Jones Newswires reports this morning, citing execs from both companies who say something’s in the works. The companies already have a deal that allows Pfizer (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff is sitting down with TechCrunch IT editor Steve Gillmor and TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld to discuss the socialization of the enterprise. Benioff recently unveiled his own social strategy for Salesforce: Chatter. Debuted at the company’s Dreamforce event, Chatter allows (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The Street likes Google’s upcoming Chrome computer operating system, seen as part of its long-term strategy to chip away at Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop. Thomas Weisel says Chrome’s capabilities “thus far are impressive.” BofA Merrill says that while Chrome is expected to make in-roads in the lightweight netbook mar (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
One of President Obama’s most-important jobs during his recent jaunt to China was convincing officials to continue to plow their money into Uncle Sam by buying government-backed debt. Was he a success?The yields of longer-dated Treasurys might be the place to look for the answer, say analysts with BNP Paribas.Sebastien Galy (Read More)
New York Times:
Since 1998, the dollar’s weakness has been a major contributor to the United States stock market’s fall from global grace.
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New York Times:
Ben S. Bernanke’s nomination to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman will be the subject of a Senate Banking Committee hearing next month.
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MSNBC:
Nov. 20: Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey examines President Barack Obama’s impending strategy decision with regard to Afghanistan. (Other). (Read More)
MSNBC:
Growing discontent over the economy, recovery efforts turn into a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the administration.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
One of the loudest populist voices in the Democratic Caucus predicted on Thursday that the party may have to forcefully challenge the White House on economic matters if it wanted to hold on to power in the 2010 elections.One day after calling on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to resign, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) told (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.Smiling kids embracing a soldier. A dog sniffing blood oozing from a corpse. Movie star Cameron Diaz posing side (Read More)