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...would start at 6:30 and go through my Iraqi day,” Senor says. “Then as my day was winding down, Washington was just starting to wake up, and the U.S. press and the U.S. government and the British government had all sorts of needs of their...
...episode for the U.S. financial system as we’ve had” since the stock market crash of 1987, but he called the decision “appropriate.” Summers criticized current Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., for being too timid in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. While more caution could have helped avert the problem, Summers said, the same impulse can be destructive after the fact. Summers also attacked the White House, saying that the Bush administration has given “insufficient weight to the interests of the middle class...
...possible, from the data available, to determine whether insurgent groups increased the overall number of attacks against American and Iraqi targets in the wake of public dissent and debate or simply changed the timing of those attacks,” Monten and Inyengar find...
Commentators in Europe point out that the dollar's continued slide against most international currencies has largely been fueled by domestic American factors - notably the credit tension and business failures in the wake of the subprime crisis, and wider signs that the U.S. has or is entering into recession. But plummeting investor confidence in the American economy has only accelerated the greenback's erosion, which in a little over two years has depreciated from $1.1826 per euro in January, 2006 to Thursday's $1.56. The result is that products manufactured by companies paying euro-fixed salaries and supplies wind...
...LINING Boeing's loss of the aerial-tanker contract to a partly foreign rival may show that defense spending is about more than hometown pork for U.S. companies. Critics say Boeing approached the contract bid with a sense of entitlement; in a global market, this may be a needed wake-up call...