With the votes finally counted almost everywhere, the fancies of education policy wonks turn to ESEA/NCLB, long overdue for reauthorization—and the subject of many aches, pains, and kvetches. Will the new Congress finally tackle this problem in 2011?
An unintended consequence of QE2 has been the strong openly voiced opposition from some of America’s traditional allies as well as those countries, like China, perceived to be on the other side of the bargaining table. So the Fed is affecting U.S.
Other governments, and their central banks, have reacted vocally and negatively to the Federal Reserve’s plan for another round of quantitative easing-which means that the Fed purchases long-term bonds.
On November 10, 2010, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, chairmen of President Obama’s deficit reduction commission, presented suggestions for spending cuts and tax increases to the 18 member group.
The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the administration’s solution to the problem of how to try KSM and his buddies may be, well, not to bother:
For many, if not most, Americans, the crisis that befell them in 2008 – leading to slow growth, rising unemployment, and high anxiety among voters – appeared to spring from nowhere.
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