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...plan and outmaneuvering his rivals with dextrous political campaigning, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has scored his greatest victory, helping the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to its biggest majority since 1986. The encore, however, could prove trickier. Koizumi's postal-reform bill, aimed at breaking Japan's $3 trillion postal service into four separate companies by 2017, will be re-submitted at a special Diet session this week and is all but guaranteed to pass. His plans beyond that are hazy. Koizumi has promised to step down when his term as party president (and thus Prime Minister) expires...
...Pennsylvania Avenue when he declared Sunday on ABC?s ?This Week? that to offset the cost of Katrina relief, ?We've got to talk about big ticket items.? He said the nation ?simply cannot break the bank of the federal budget that is currently running about an $8 trillion national debt, about $26,000 per family.? While House Republican leaders do not necessarily disagree with Pence, they have been publicly supportive of the White House. Pence?s official biography says he is ?a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,? and the interplay of those last two priorities...
...astronomical and the competitive pressure hyperintense. Besides the Brooks brokers, federal agents arrested a worker at Advest, a midsize brokerage, and one at Allied Capital, a money-management firm. They also hauled off five lower-level employees of New York's Depository Trust, the private clearinghouse where some $2.2 trillion in stock and bond certificates are stored for safekeeping...
Canada’s current foreign aid contribution is approximately $3 billion, 0.26 percent of the country’s trillion-dollar GDP. Reaching 0.7 percent would require Canada’s contribution to more than double, a political near-impossibility given the higher-than-usual level of spending included in the government’s last budget, passed...
Haste makes waste. Haste when the House and Senate are negotiating a catchall spending bill of half a trillion dollars for next year, as they were last week, also makes for some mighty curious appropriations of taxpayers' money. Among the more unusual...