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Tuesday's less than catastrophic showing in Asia and Europe does not mean traders there are ignoring the potential disaster of a collapsing U.S. financial system. But there was in many foreign markets a confidence - perhaps unfounded - that U.S. legislators will eventually realize they have no choice but to pass...
There is, of course, a serious point to all this mishigas. The last eight years may have been a geopolitical and economic disaster, but one thing they have not lacked is drama. They've been eight exhausting years, and when Obama talks about change, he's implicitly talking about giving...
Lindahl says the idea came from listening to Library of Congress recordings of survivors of the Dust Bowl, Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 attacks. "Really, the best of them were not collected by professionals like myself but by people talking to people who had shared the experience," he says...
Collins, Gail •says of Bush's speech, "There is, in a way, a kind of talent required to tell the nation that it's teetering on the brink of disaster in a way that makes the viewers' attention wander"
The key players at this point are House Republicans - a group that normally is all but irrelevant on Capitol Hill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi - mindful of the electoral disaster that befell her party after it passed Bill Clinton's controversial budget plan in 1993 without any GOP votes - has said she...