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Recent Posts Tagged With 'obama'
How To Use Swine Flu
This swine flu became a real political event: California declared a state of emergency; Homeland Security is making moves; Obama is making another TV appearance again. It so far looks like the market is reacting to the Fed statement rather than...
Is Obama To Re-Start The Nuremberg Trials Next?
Is Obama ready to re-start the Nuremberg Trials? Or forget Dufar trail in ICC? His decision of not prosecuting CIA officers employs the “I am only following orders” argument which is the exact defense employed during the Nuremberg Trials. O...
AIG The Sacrifice: The Reflection Of America’s Political Risk
I agree quite a few points of this article in regard to the AIG episode. Of course, nothing is perfect. I would change a word here: “It will certainly make Mr. Obama’s task much more difficult when he tries to sell the public [my vers...
Navy Or Education?
Naval conflicts are obviously more exciting and therefore more headline deserving. However, Obama’s education announcement may have a greater impact over the US competitiveness. US’ timing of airing out these incidents at this time is inte...
Veto The Pork? Thought About The Cost Of Business?
Fourteen Senators are calling Obama to veto the budget (until 2009.09). Will Obama veto? If these 14 Senators are truly against the pork, they could eliminate the bill themselves. They would rather say they are against it, rather than calling t...
Obama, How Much Per Job?
Obama’s message in the first presidential TV press conference was straight forward. Who was he talking to? Sure we all want get going with the recovery. Where is the problem? If there were not problem, Obama would not have been talking. ...
Gimmick? What Difference Does It Make?
Obama did not actually ask for pay limit. Obama pretty much asks for pay through options: exercise to sell the stocks when you pay back the money to the government. Obama also asks for more say for the shareholders. Some will say such an ask is...
More Bailout Drama – Exactly What Obama Needs
Obama has been trying to distance himself from the Blagovich scandal. The questions are now revolving around his staff and how much he knew of the senate seat auction. No matter how clean he is and how hard he tries to move on to his agenda, m...
Obama Administration Begins! (Or ?)
Obama settled on his economic team late Friday afternoon, sending Dow 400 points higher, just above 8,000 points. Then, news about Citi’s (NYSE:C) bailout came about. This news probably marks the beginning of Obama administration. Here is als...
Who Just Financed The Auto Bailout? What Do They Really Want To Buy?
How much money are GM (NYSE:GM), Ford (NYSE:F) and Chrysler asking? $25B. What if someone already lent more than that $25B money to America 2 months ago? Should America use that money for the auto industry or something else? Like the new stim...
How Long Can You Wait For A GM Bailout?
GM (NYSE: GM), Chrsyler and Ford (NYSE: F) are asking for a nagging for an auto industry bailout. This is what should have been expected once the $700B bailout flood gate is open. After the auto industry will be the steel industry, the building...
Prudent Obama Prolongs Uncertainty
Obama is not going to G20 because there is only one president at a time. This is prudent. This also makes him safe. He should not be responsible for anything Bush commits. By being next to Obama, he either has to say sorry to Bush or to th...
Market Is Still Waiting For Obama
How is the Obama administration doing? Obama may not have assumed the duties. However, he definitely started his impact. For one, gun sales are going up and that translates into stock prices already. S&P continues to fall. Starti...
Bradley Effect Or McCain Effect?
Is Bradley Effect still there? How can we find out? If we check the last polls before the election, Obama was having double digit leads. However, his popular vote is 53% against 47%, 6% lead. Here is a list of polls I gathered: Pol...
What Makes President Obama Not A Sure Thing
Are these undecided voters the key to this election? As of today (2008.11.03), Obama has 228 electoral votes where the state has >10% polling margin and 50 electoral votes where the state has >5% polling margin. The difference less than 5%...
