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...interest rate that the government will have to pay for money may go up as investors become less comfortable with the federal deficit. The Chinese government, which is the most important single purchaser of US paper, has expressed concern about the profligacy of American spending. No one can tell what the Omega is for government borrowing, but that will certainly be tested over the next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Actually Running the Government's Portfolio? | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...something different ... I'm paraphrasing ... but it means something different for them to be speaking in this space. I wonder if you could elaborate on it. What is the meaning of being able to bring these new different voices? I kind of think back to my childhood, and I tell this story a lot. I mean, I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and literally a 10-minute drive away was the University of Chicago in all of its grandeur. And I never knew anything about that institution that was a few minutes away from me, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with the First Lady | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...told the ... I tell the girls, I said it's on you if Bo eats Tiger or Blankie, which are two beloved characters in the household. It's on you, because you've seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with the First Lady | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...sure I do what every spouse does. We'll have conversations, and we'll share our opinions over the course of the conversation. But I don't want to have a say. Really, there are a lot of times when I'm like, Don't tell me what happened today at work. I just don't want to hear it, because I want the home space to really be free of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with the First Lady | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...regiment of role models to schools across Washington, including singers Alicia Keys and Sheryl Crow, Ann Dunwoody, the first female four-star general, and Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel into space. Michelle visited Anacostia High School, where violence is common and signs on the walls tell students which baby supplies will be available through the Baby Bonus Bucks Redemption Program. She sat with a group of 10 girls and three boys, who had been chosen, she told them, because "somebody in your school thought that you had a lot of potential." She recalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning of Michelle Obama | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

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