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...Whether those campaign promises can survive the economic meltdown looks uncertain. In the presidential debate on Sept. 26, Jim Lehrer pushed Obama and McCain to name which programs they would need to drop during the recession. Pressed into answering, Obama said he would not abandon his program to make the U.S. independent of foreign oil but admitted that "there may be individual components that we cannot...
...Main Street: retailers stocking less for Christmas, fears that companies won't make payroll. Though some of the direr projections of where the credit crunch may lead are unlikely, the effects are nonetheless filtering down to the average consumer and worker. (See the 10 steps to the financial meltdown here...
Four Harvard professors—and one Pulitzer-winning reporter—addressed the financial meltdown at the Institute of Politics last night, in the third major panel at the University on the current economic situation. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Bloomberg announced on Oct. 2 that he would ask the New York City Council to amend a 15-year-old law restricting Big Apple mayors to two terms in office. "We have planned for a slowdown in New York, but we may well be on the verge of a meltdown," he said by way of explanation. (See TIME's cover story on Michael Bloomberg here...
...steps to the financial meltdown here and TIME's photos of the global financial crisis here...