Word: explaine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...difficult to articulate what a credit crunch feels like. A recession, on the other hand, most people can explain...
Ajita Talwalker, a student at the Kennedy School of Government, said that having Harvard professors explain the financial crisis was helpful because the discussion provided an education for all in the audience...
...repeating that the plan will help Main Street as well as Wall Street, they didn't make the case until all was nearly lost that the credit crunch endangers loans for cars, homes, farms and businesses--which in turn endangers millions of jobs and pensions. "I begged them to explain this to the guy on his couch, and they never did," says Congressman Steve LaTourette, an Ohio Republican in a swing district who voted against the bailout. "They never explained why they needed all this money in a simple way to the guy with the 401(k), the guy with...
Steve LaTourette, the moderate Republican who is likely to win re-election in November but may be vulnerable because of the foreclosure crisis, says the problem is that no one has explained the bailout in terms that the public can understand. "I went to the financial services hearing and begged them to explain this to the guy on his couch, and they never did. They never really explained why they needed all this money in a simple way to the guy with the 401(k), the guy with a small business who already pays a lot in taxes...
...around to win the daily and weekly news cycles, McCain has failed to give voters a broad, forward-looking explanation for why they should support him. McCain's national-security experience and reputation as a reformer add substance to his theme of "putting country first," but they don't explain what a McCain presidency would mean, or how it would differ from the past eight years. "At no point have they told the American people where John wants to lead them," says a third Republican strategist. "Had they spent more time laying the predicate, they'd have something to fall...