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...Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, spent some of the early parts of his career being attacked by Congress. Legislators were not happy that he could not come up with details about the Administration's stimulus program and plans to buy bad assets from banks by recruiting shrewd investors from Wall St. and giving them access to taxpayer cash...
...states already have a head start. California, whose 11.2% March unemployment rate is the state's highest since 1941, is rushing to funnel $415 million in federal stimulus money to 49 job-retraining centers. Most of the training will be designed to qualify people for jobs in infrastructure construction, health care and green industries like waste recycling and wind-farm technology. In Texas, legislators will vote next month on a final version of a 2010-11 budget, already passed by the state senate, that boosts spending on higher education by $1.5 billion. That figure includes $500 million in federal stimulus...
...candidate is taxes. Even if one were to ignore the fact that President Obama’s stimulus bill cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans in one of the largest tax cuts in American history, it is not apt to declare the current situation a throwback to the Hanoverians. Rather, what the protesters are experiencing might be called taxation “with” representation. However, to claim that one is not being represented because one does not approve of the actions of a government endorsed by the majority of the electorate is to protest democracy itself...
...crisis, it so surprised his audience, who were more used to traditional IMF calls for austerity, that Larry Summers, now a top U.S. economic official, described it as a "historic moment." More recently, Strauss-Kahn has put public pressure on European governments to increase the size of their economic-stimulus packages, and has criticized the U.S. for not tackling more forthrightly the toxic assets still on the balance sheets of many banks...
...already thinking of returning to Brazil then it might work. But there are many people in their 20s and 30s, and after two or three years they're going to want to come back to Japan - and they won't be able to." (Read more about Japan's new stimulus package...