From the perspective of many in the Obama administration, it is not possible to move fast with major cuts at home without hitting a political wall in a nation that takes cheap and plentiful energy as a right.
This is surprising given that, especially since the 2008 taxpayer bail-out of Wall Street, the nation is more aware than ever that professional money managers, including those which manage pensions, should not be blindly trusted.
We lost our way as a nation when Wall Street persuaded Americans that they could retire rich by buying stocks and bonds or any of the hundreds of financially-engineered products peddled as vehicles for accumulating excess wealth.
The Center for Security Policy has sent copies of David Yerushalmi's legal memorandum to the heads of scores of Wall Street firms and the nation's leading commercial banks, warning them of the ominous similarities between subprime and SCF.
As an investigative journalist, Mr. Henry's articles have numerous publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, US News, Manhattan Inc.
To start with, we can't compete as a nation if the irresponsibility of a few folks on Wall Street can bring our entire economy to its knees.
When the U.S. government lifted sanctions in 2004 prohibiting American firms from doing business with and investing in Libya, Western financial institutions flocked to the oil-rich nation, according to a recent investigation by the Wall Street Journal.
FORBES: Goldman Sachs Lost 98% of Libya's $1.3B Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment
As global trade took off again in the 1960s, the idea that a nation, especially a smaller or more backward one, could wall itself off and come out ahead lost respectability.
Bergen has written about al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, counterterrorism, homeland security and countries around the Middle East for a range of American newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, TIME, The Nation, The National Interest, Mother Jones, Newsweek, Washington Times and Vanity Fair.
On 3 October 1990, the two German states created in 1949 -- and divided by that wall for nearly thirty years -- were reunited as one sovereign and democratic nation.
When a Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) analyst recently began agitating for change at the New York Times Co. (nyse: NYT - news - people ), Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. defended his family's supervoting power by claiming the nation's three preeminent newspapers--the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post (nyse: WPO - news - people )--owe their journalistic greatness to control by families like his.
When investors stop buying, Wall Street has less money to lend and all of this has put a crimp in the nation's credit market that extends well beyond subprime mortgages.
The financial markets crisis could not have been prevented because Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, for 18 long years the power center in the nation for monetary policy, did not believe in reining in the animal spirits on Wall Street.
In 1999, USA Today edged past the Wall Street Journal in circulation with 1.75 million daily copies, to take the title of the nation's biggest newspaper.
John Avlon, author of "Independent Nation" and a CNN contributor, said anger is especially high with independents who feel that only Wall Street is benefiting from the recovering economy.
In 1999, USA Today edged past the Wall Street Journal in circulation, with 1.75 million daily copies, to take the title of the nation's biggest newspaper, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Obama used the life of 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate what the nation has overcome in her lifetime, including the Depression, world wars, the nation's quest for civil rights, a man on the moon, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even a world connected by technology.
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