Archives: November 2008

Obama Names Volcker to Head New Oversight Panel

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 26, Categories:

Barack Obama rounded out his core economic team this morning, naming venerable former Fed chief Paul Volcker to head a new advisory board of outside-the-Beltway notables that he said would...

President (Elect) Obama Takes the Lead

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 25, Categories:

There may only be one president at a time, as Barack Obama said three days after winning the Nov. 4 presidential election. But for an outsider looking in, it might...

Obama Offers Glimpse of Policy as He Names Economic Team

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 24, Categories:

A somber President-Elect Barack Obama announced his economic team, largely as expected, and laid the groundwork for a "substantial" economic stimulus package in January to "jolt this economy back into...

Obama Economic Team Will Be Unveiled Monday

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 23, Categories:

President-Elect Barack Obama will announce his economic team Monday, unveiling a slate of senior advisers with a broad range of experience and years under their belt with the Clinton Administration...

Obama to Nominate New York Fed Chief Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 21, Categories:

President-Elect Barack Obama is likely to nominate New York Federal Reserve Bank chief Timothy Geithner as his Treasury secretary, proposing to put in the critical post a professional bureaucrat who...

The Three Treasury Secretaries: Paulson, Summers and Rubin

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 17, Categories:

As the Obama administration prepares for Jan. 20, there has been much debate about how it should approach the needs of the economy and financial crisis -- and the constraints...

Obama's Treasury, State & Defense Transition Teams

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 12, Categories:

This one's official: the top people on the transition's Agency Review Teams. Full press release after the jump....

Update: Possible Picks for Team Obama

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 12, Categories:

For those of you making -- or taking -- bets on the Obama Administration cabinet lineup, the latest list we've received is after the link. It's not from the horse's...

AIG's New Deal: Feds Ease Loan Terms, Provide Capital

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 10, Categories:

The Treasury Dept. and the Federal Reserve say they are restructuring the more than $100 billion in assistance provided to shaky insurance giant American International Group Inc., easing lending terms,...

A Taste of Deficits to Come?

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 07, Categories:

If there was any doubt that the economic crisis had serious implications for the federal deficit -- and therefore for President-Elect Barack Obama's nascent administration -- doubt no more: The...

It's Still the Economy: Obama's First Press Conference

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 07, Categories:

The economy is job one -- but for now, it's President Bush's job. So said Sen. Barack Obama at his first press conference as president-elect, with 18 heavyweight economic and...

Obama, Biden to Hold Economic Council Friday

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 06, Categories:

The president-elect seems to be wasting little time tackling thorny economic issues: He's called a meeting of more than a dozen key business and economic advisers for Friday in Chicago....

Obama's Victory: Mandate or Moderate?

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 05, Categories:

Last night's historic win by Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic party isn't yet a day old, and already we're getting conflicting views of its meaning for business and international...

The Other Election: State Ballot Measures

Posted by: Theo Francis on November 04, Categories:

No, we don't know who's president yet, or what the party split will be in Congress. Sit tight. But there are other ballot battles going on today: the state ballot...

Whither the Investing Class?

Posted by: Dan Beucke on November 03, Categories:

No big surprise that investors are feeling battered. But is their portfolio pain enough to make them switch sides in the election? BusinessWeek's Moira Herbst writes about an interesting new...

Survey: Voters Fearful About Medical Bills

Posted by: Jane Sasseen on November 03, Categories:

By Catherine Arnst Among the many ticking time bombs that will drop on the next president, add health care. Despite the fact that there won’t be much money around for...