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...Obama's nominee to be Secretary of the Treasury, Geithner will be tugging on the economic levers himself - levers that are, thanks to outgoing Secretary Hank Paulson, far more powerful than they had been. Colleagues say Geithner privately acknowledges that the U.S. economy is still sinking fast and the root cause of the problem - the housing bust and ensuing credit crunch - is still very much with the nation. Critics will ask at his confirmation hearing how the incoming Administration plans to prevent things from getting even worse. His personal finances may be called into question, in light of the revelation...
...while the global economy, in the form of heavily laden container ships transiting the Suez Canal, quite literally pass you by. Killing pirates, as an international armada now gathering off Somalia aims to do, doesn't address that. It might briefly deter them, but it doesn't address the root cause of the problem...
...flesh, via an e-mail to the "Apple Community." He disputed "stories of me on my deathbed" but admitted he had been "losing weight throughout 2008" and said, "The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority...
...scheduled to return from a two-day visit to the U.S.'s adversary, Iran, where he met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatullah Khamenei. According to Iranian state news agency IRNA, Khamenei told al-Maliki on Sunday that the U.S. presence in Iraq was the root cause of terrorism, and that the U.S. seeks to establish a permanent base there to dominate the region. He urged further political and economic cooperation with Iran...
...Action Program for HIV/AIDS has saved more than a million lives. It may be the greatest legacy this president leaves.” The incredible progress that has been achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan is evident in the lives that their citizens now live as peace and freedom take root. While there was a worldwide intelligence failure and there were postwar planning and strategic mistakes under Secretary Rumsfeld in Iraq, the strategy was adjusted and we may soon see a fountain of democracy in an otherwise turbulent Middle East. In addition to the politically historic progress of the democratically adopted...