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Nonetheless, many policymakers and analysts are worried. In late December, President Obama summoned the heads of the nation's largest banks to the White House to urge them to make more loans to small and medium-size businesses. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke too has mentioned in recent speeches the continued credit crunch as an economic concern. (See how Americans are spending...
...TIME's Person of the Year 2009: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke...
...Fight for Federal Aid Around the capital, the special deal that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson got to secure his vital, filibuster-breaking 60th vote for the health care bill is now known as the Cornhusker Kickback. Even as political favors go, it's a whopper: if reform passes, the Federal Government will pay all of Nebraska's new Medicaid costs forever. And it's fueling envy and outrage in the other 49 states. Led by South Carolina's Henry McMaster, the attorneys general of 13 states - 12 Republicans and one Democrat - have signed on to a letter contending the Nelson...
...about President Obama's unfulfilled promise to open up health reform negotiations to a new level of transparency, took a swipe at the "number of things that [Obama] was for on the campaign trail" that have been left undone. Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat, ripped into her colleague Ben Nelson of Nebraska for "horse-trading" his vote on health care and called for the special Medicaid funding provisions he won in return for his support to be removed from the final legislation...
...Person of the Year - Not! Although I respect your choice of Ben Bernanke for Person of the Year, I find it really weird that not a single mention is made of the Iranian protesters [Dec. 28 - Jan. 4]. In the online poll you launched over the past weeks, the popular choice was quite clearly oriented toward these freedom fighters. I find it offensive not to have even a mention of them in your letter to readers. Jacopo Giuntoli Delft, The Netherlands...