Lawrence Summers

Insurers, Phrma Head Visited White House During Health Debate

Insurers, Phrma Head Visited White House During Health Debate Bloomberg By Jonathan D. Salant and John mccormick Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The heads of health insurance and pharmaceutical trade groups were among those visiting the...

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AP: White House 'met early and often with lobbyists' on health care

Raw Story AP: White House 'met early and often with lobbyists' on health care Raw Story By Raw Story White House officials "met early and often with lobbyists" involved in the health care reform effort, visitor logs obtained by...

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Some War! Chamber CEO Visited White House Eight Times

TPMDC (blog) Some War! Chamber CEO Visited White House Eight Times TPMDC (blog) Last month, the White House was accused of launching "a frontal assault against free enterprise and the Chamber of Commerce," by an executive of...

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Obama's agenda runs into economic angst in Congress (Reuters)

Reuters - President Barack Obama is paying a price for a recession that began before he took office, and fellow Democrats have started to balk at his legislative agenda and demand greater efforts to create jobs.

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Avenue's Lasry Attends White House State Dinner

Avenue's Lasry Attends White House State Dinner FINalternatives There weren't many representatives of Wall Street at President Barack Obama's first state dinner, in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. But among the...

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The Conversation: Is the Senate Health Care Bill Better Off Dead?

By DAVID BROOKS AND GAIL COLLINS Left to right: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press; Kevin Lamarque/Reuters; Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg; Susan Walsh/Associated Press Should Republicans be willing to engage with these men? (From...

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Imus: Obama 'Jimmy Carter Stupid' Regarding Wall Street and the Economy

According to Don Imus, it's the late-1970s all over again, and not in a good way. Imus appeared on the Fox News Channel's Nov. 24 "Hannity" program and had some disparaging words for the current administration's economic...

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A Couple of Stuffed Turkeys, Wall Street Style (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Wade Slome November 25, 2009 | about: There will be no shortage of turkey stuffing this year, thanks to a story from Joshua Brown’s The Reformed Broker site (Wall Street Turkeys…Full of Stuffing). In the spirit of...

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Manhattan Subway Deal Goes to China State Firm: Giving it All Up To China Makes No Sense

I am one who favors a constructive partnership with China in solving many of the tough global challenges out there -- and believe that Zachary Karabell is right that the two economies' fortunes are fused together for some time,...

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REFILE-Obama's agenda runs into economic angst in Congress

By Thomas Ferraro and Emily Kaiser WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is paying a price for a recession that began before he took office, and fellow Democrats have started to balk at his legislative...

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