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...policy. "We're in potentially a different place now with North Korea," a senior Administration official tells TIME. Obama came into office determined to close the deal George W. Bush had started to negotiate during his second term: persuading the North to stand down its nuclear program in return for an array of economic benefits as well as eventual diplomatic recognition by Washington. For now, that strategy is off. "I'm tired of buying the same horse twice," said Defense Secretary Robert Gates late last month. In its place, if North Korea continues on its current path, say Administration officials...
...sign of hope for the ailing U.S. economy, the Treasury Department agreed to let 10 large banks begin repaying $68 billion in federal aid they received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Having passed "stress tests," some large firms like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are expected to return the bailout money ahead of the original timetable set by the White House...
...Washington Holocaust Museum Shooting On June 10, a gunman opened fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, killing a security guard before the assailant was struck by return shots. Law-enforcement officials said the 88-year-old suspect, James Von Brunn, had ties to white-supremacist groups. He served prison time after carrying guns into Washington's Federal Reserve Building...
Irving Fisher lives on in American economic history mainly as a laughingstock. He was, after all, the ninny who declared on Oct. 15, 1929, that stock prices had reached "what looks like a permanently high plateau." Two weeks later, stocks plunged off that plateau--not to return to their 1929 level for a quarter-century...
Hoekstra has had his problems with Twitter before: last February, he tweeted his whereabouts while touching down into Baghdad on a trip that was supposed to be kept secret for security reasons. His office did not return a request for comment, but the congressman may be taking some time to rethink his new media strategy since the June 17 post. It took him two days to tweet again...