Entries tagged "White House"
In describing his new job as special adviser for green jobs, the charismatic cleantech jobs advocate says he's not the "czar" of anything.
President Obama taps law school classmate Julius Genachowski as chair of the Federal Communications Commission.
The market is now deep into a thing thing, muttering to itself like a homeless man on the subway, lost in its own despair.
Even as three of the most important financial arms of the U.S. government held around-the-clock negotiations with Citigroup Inc. on a bailout that would restore confidence in the bank, reporters traveling with the president on Air Force One were told that the White House was unaware of any talks between regulators and Citi. ...
OK, make fun of the president's candid, if slightly Freudian, comments about Wall Street. Mock the comments about Wall Street getting drunk on a bunch of "fancy financial instruments." Offer bloggy asides about the president's penchant for metaphors straight from the therapeutic school: Wall Street as a drunk, America addicted to oil. Ask what he, a Harvard M.B.A., was up to while the Street was imbibing so eagerly. Wonder why he didn't vet his remarks with Henry Paulson (well, Paulson is a Wall Streeter). ...
