The special election victory by Republican Scott Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley to fill late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts yesterday left a torrent of speculation and accusation in its wake. Will the healthcare bill be put in jeopardy? What does this mean for the Democrats in 2010 and even 2012? Does the public [...]
Last week, the “Move Your Money” campaign seemed to hit a fever pitch online, as our sister blog EconomyBeat.org reported. Starting with The Huffington Post and moving onto Twitter and Facebook, as well as various blogs, people were urging their friends to move their money into community banks, and out of the large banks that [...]
Today, President Obama was on Wall Street, discussing the financial crisis and next steps on the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers meltdown. Nightly Business Report revisited the collapse and also shared Treasury Secretary Larry Summers’ reaction from one year ago. “As for Wall Street itself, there is little evidence any lessons have been learned,” [...]
NewsHour’s David Brooks and Mark Shields discuss President Obama’s speech on health care reform and what impact it will have on Congress.
You can listen to President Obama’s press conference on health care reform from last night in its entirety at PRX. And Marketplace’s Tamara Keith gives an <a href="overview and analysis of the q&a session.
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