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A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / White House Courts Investors
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 No commentsBy Daniel Politi The New York Times leads with the Obama administration’s busy Sunday, when officials went on a charm offensive to try to convince private investors to participate in the government’s long-awaited effort to remove troubled assets from banks’ balance sheets. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will officially unveil the plan’s details today, but officials [...]
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A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / Obama Demands a Refund
Posted on March 17th, 2009 No commentsBy Daniel Politi The New York Times and Washington Post lead with, and everyone else fronts, the continuing fallout from the $165 million in bonuses that American International Group handed out to employees who were at least partly responsible for the insurance giant’s fall from grace. President Obama ordered his administration to “pursue every legal [...]
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A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / Geithner to Europe: Let the Money Flow
Posted on March 12th, 2009 No commentsBy Daniel Politi The New York Times leads with a look at how fraud prosecutions will be coming soon to a courtroom near you. Attorneys general across the country have started to get the ball rolling, and the federal government is expected to get in on the action soon. The Washington Post leads with the [...]
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A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / The First Major Stock Rally of 2009
Posted on March 11th, 2009 No commentsBy Daniel Politi The Wall Street Journal banners and the New York Times leads with news that Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty tomorrow to 11 felony charges and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Prosecutors say Madoff began operating what may be the largest fraud in Wall Street’s history [...]
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A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / Obama Faces Opposition From Democrats
Posted on March 10th, 2009 No commentsBy Daniel Politi The Washington Post leads with a look at how the Obama administration is seeking to put more restrictions on free trade even as world commerce takes a plunge this year because of the global economic crisis. The administration plans to take a harder line on domestic and social issues not only when [...]
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A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / We All Fall Down
Posted on March 9th, 2009 No commentsBy Daniel Politi The Washington Post leads with a new World Bank report that warned the global economy will fall into a recession for the first time since World War II as world trade suffers its steepest plunge in 80 years. The crisis will put a dent in poverty-fighting efforts, and multilateral lenders don’t have [...]
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A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS / Too Many Czars in the Kitchen?
Posted on March 5th, 2009 No commentsBy Daniel Politi USA Today leads with a look at how the $410 billion omnibus spending bill contains $227 million for pet projects requested by lawmakers who aren’t even in Congress anymore. The New York Times and Washington Post lead with the Obama administration announcing the details of its program to rescue millions of struggling homeowners. [...]


