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...nervous time, but I tell you, the one man who wasn’t nervous was Barack Obama,” Axelrod said...
...tried to prop up the currency, but after blowing through tens of billions of dollars in September and October, it changed course in mid-November, and has since begun a policy of phased devaluation. That's calling up bad memories of the ruble's collapse in 1998, and prompting nervous talk around kitchen tables about what to do this time around. On Dec. 4, Putin fielded vetted questions from around the nation on a televised call-in show. One of the most poignant was a text message from an unnamed viewer: "What will happen to the ruble, and what...
...difficult to get an accurate picture of the economic disruption in Russia, where reliable information and open public discussion remain rare. This is the other side of Putinomics: TV and many major press outlets are firmly under state control, and media outlets that aren't have become nervous about printing the truth. As a result, the very word crisis is only now starting to enter the official vocabulary, and even then in a relatively muted...
...period between election night and inauguration is necessarily a time of nervous speculation, both professional and personal. Would the president-elect set aside the recent past and appoint Hillary Clinton to his cabinet? Could Larry Summers overcome his ignominious departure from Harvard and return to public service? The pressing questions were both answered promptly...
...bullish on the prospects of the China market. Lin says the car market will begin to pick up again in the second half of 2009, bolstered by the giant government economic stimulus packages that have recently been laid out in Beijing. That money, he argues, will rebuild confidence among nervous consumers. "In the long term, the China market is still quite promising," Lin says. Though that is undoubtedly true, the road getting there will be a bumpy...