Word: stumps
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...Some corporate deadbeats of a decade ago are back in the market for cash-and investors are happy to stump up, at rock-bottom rates, just as they were before. The risk premium that Asian borrowers have to pay is near historical lows. It's a worrying sign of global exuberance. Ironically, Asia has played a role in stoking dangerous imbalances in the global economy. Its 'dirty-peg' currencies, which ostensibly float but in fact are controlled by central banks, have kept exports higher and imports lower than they would be otherwise. In the case of China, with...
...history on the subject of race, electing a black President would demonstrate that idea even more powerfully than electing a woman. Hillary Clinton's very success in building a political machine and becoming the front runner makes her candidacy seem less remarkable. Unlike Clinton, who explicitly says on the stump that it's time for a woman President, Obama contents himself with code. "It's time to move forward," he says. But we all get the message...
...Kevin Sheekey, has been spinning $500 million Bloomberg-for-President scenarios for months; in a recent interview, one former Bloomberg aide described Sheekey's current job as "Deputy Mayor for Running for President." And that over the last couple of days Bloomberg has delivered what sounded a lot like stump speeches, deriding Washington as a "swamp of dysfunction" and lamenting that the country is "really in trouble" on a wide range of issues, from Iraq to health care...
...kissing babies and door-to-door campaigning are so Politics 1.0. If a candidate for the 2008 election has any hopes of landing the commander-in-chief job, he/she better start refining their online search strategy and pimping their MySpace profile. With the Web becoming the newest channel to stump for votes, online search holds some interesting insight about the presidential candidates and the issues that Americans are most curious about...
...proposed universal care in 1999, your opponents and the press will tear your proposal to shreds. That's because there is no such thing as a perfect policy idea; even great ones, like Social Security, have obvious flaws, and it's tough to deal with complexity on the stump. There's another problem: governing is vastly different from campaigning. Any big new program has to be negotiated with the Congress. There's no guarantee a President won't change his priorities or be forced by events into a whole new way of looking at things. Bush promised a humble foreign...