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...mounting bad economic signs. The Conference Board put its consumer confidence rating at 59.8 for September, a slight improvement from 58.5 in August. Compare that with the index's nearly 20-year low of 55.3 in 1991, when the U.S. fell into recession following the first war in Iraq. (In good times, the index can be well above 100 points.) But the latest series of events on Wall Street and in Washington are undoubtedly shaping consumer confidence in ways that have yet to register on the index...
Countering a charge that upper-class tax increases would hurt the economy, Joe Biden launched like a mad bus driver into a breathless verbal tour of his hometown, beginning with Union Street and a mom-and-pop restaurant, accelerating through all the stops—the current administration, taxes, Iraq, education, health care—taking a slight detour to note his (working-class, blue-collar) predilection for Home Depot, and wheezing back into the station with a promise of change from Obama. To viewers at home, Biden’s brief but intimate portrait seemed to say much more...
...dealt with in Congress right now. We might see piecemeal reform, though, before comprehensive reform. Unfortunately, if we had had a more credible president in office in the last few years, we might have seen something comprehensive go through. Immigration reform, in this sense, is a casualty of the Iraq War.” Many fellows noted that they reached new levels of understanding regarding their use of language in relation to immigration and how the public receives such language, as well as a greater understanding of the issues of immigration and how they relate to society...
...going to be making history,” Mccammon said. “It’s interesting because for some people it was almost all about potential and ideas." Feldman, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations who briefly advised the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, said that challenge for him is “to get my ideas out there in this world and hope they have a positive effect...
...considering the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the war in Iraq or the $1.2 trillion that vanished in the stock market crash last Tuesday, the $12 billion that would have gone into the Texas collider would have been well worth the investment. Plus, by the time the project was cancelled, the costs just to dismantle the thing ran past $1 billion...