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Byline: JEFFREY SIMPSON ECONOMIC FORECAST jsimpson@globeandmail.com Look past the budget negotiations in Washington. Whether or not politicians cobble together a deal before Tuesday's debt-ceiling deadline, the long-term U.S. fiscal situation [...]

Byline: KEVIN CARMICHAEL MONETARY POLICY WASHINGTON -- The minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest policy deliberations end one debate about the future of the central bank's $600-billion (U.S.) asset purchase [...]

Byline: REX MURPHY Commentator with The National and host of CBC Radio's Cross-Country Checkup He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on the [...]

Byline: AVNER MANDELMAN THE BUY SIDE / WARNING SIGNS amandelman@giraffecapital.com One of the monthly letters I read devotedly is Eric Sprott's. It is irreverent, pithy, brutally honest - and very [...]

Byline: FABRICE TAYLOR VOX: U.S. ECONOMY Obama at full speed on a national debt road trip Fabrice Taylor is a chartered financial analyst. ftaylor@globeandmail.com If you want pithy economic insights, [...]

Byline: JOHN IBBITSON THE FIRST 100 DAYS Not surprisingly, Obama gives himself high marks WASHINGTON -- jibbitson@globeandmail.com With his first one hundred days behind him and his $3.7-trillion budget approved [...]

Byline: JOHN IBBITSON AMERICA Obama must prepare the United States now for the tax pain to come Barack Obama delivered yesterday a major speech on his economic plan so masterful [...]

Byline: RICHARD BLACKWELL THE EXPLAINER: RICHARD BLACKWELL ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON THE FINANCIAL CRISIS Why some indicators lead, others lag I know last week's employment numbers were bad, but isn't that [...]

Byline: MARCUS GEE Barack Obama clearly has many of the qualities to make a great president: intelligence, eloquence, grace under pressure. But is he tough enough? We'll know in short [...]

Byline: LYSIANE GAGNON Quebec is suffering from a bad case of Obama envy. Of course, last week was Barack Obama's week throughout the world, but my guess is that, in [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL; jheinzl@globeandmail.com Plenty of people claim to have predicted the U.S. housing meltdown and credit crisis. Few were as early, or as uncannily accurate, as John Talbott. Or [...]

Byline: JIM KUHNHENN; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A congressional panel reviewing the government's $700-billion (U.S.) rescue package for the financial sector questioned the Bush administration's spending of bailout funds and [...]

Byline: DEBORAH SOLOMON; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is considering tapping the second half of the U.S. government's $700-billion (U.S.) financial industry rescue fund [...]

Bankruptcy watch Obama, Harper forced to confront auto-sector crisis Don't be fooled Canadian job gains belie fact that 'engine is running on empty' United they fall? 10 years on, the [...]

Byline: JOHN IBBITSON; jibbitson@globeandmail.com CHICAGO -- Wall Street greeted the election of Barack Obama as president with a swoon. His victory wasn't the reason for the nearly 500-point decline in [...]

Byline: JEFFREY SIMPSON; jsimpson@globeandmail.ca My fellow Americans, Senator Joe Biden and I accept with humility and dedication the mandate you have given us - and the support you have given [...]

Byline: DEREK DeCLOET; ddecloet@globeandmail.com Henry Paulson said it with the confidence of ... well, of a man who used to run Goldman Sachs. His scheme to pump a quarter of [...]

Byline: BARRIE McKENNA WASHINGTON -- U.S. Federal Reserve Board chief Ben Bernanke has unambiguously endorsed another major injection of fiscal stimulus even though experts warn it could push this year's [...]

Byline: MARGARET WENTE; mwente@globeandmail.com Who can blame Canadians for being bored numb by our election? We didn't need it. The stakes were low. The main contenders were unappealing. And after [...]

Byline: New York Times WASHINGTON -- Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the U.S. Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many U.S. banks to try [...]

Byline: BRIAN MILNER TORONTO -- The proposed U.S. financial bailout scheme is a dreadful mistake that could plunge the country into an economic abyss for years and will only reward [...]

Byline: KEVIN CARMICHAEL OTTAWA -- It takes a lot to deter U.S. consumers. Through the oil shocks of the 1970s, the double-digit interest rates of the early 1980s, the Asian [...]

Byline: KEVIN CARMICHAEL, ANDY HOFFMAN, AND GREG KEENAN OTTAWA, TORONTO -- Away from Wall Street and Bay Street, the economic engines that power the North American economy are sputtering for [...]

Byline: DEREK DECLOET; ddecloet@globeandmail.com In the blackest September you might ever see in finance, every day seems to bring a new shocker. It's almost - almost - to the point [...]

Byline: John Partridge We must now take further, decisive action to fundamentally and comprehensively address the root cause of this turmoil. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Who is responsible for [...]

Byline: KELLY GREENE; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF Nancy Davis, a 59-year-old senior marketing manager for a law firm in San Diego, had hoped to ease into her retirement after her [...]

Byline: MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG AND LIAM PLEVEN; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF In an effort to prop up giant insurer American International Group Inc., the U.S. Federal Reserve asked Goldman Sachs Group [...]

Byline: BARRIE McKENNA; With files from Reuters WASHINGTON -- Two more large U.S. financial institutions, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Washington Mutual Inc., are scrambling to find buyers this weekend [...]

Byline: BOYD ERMAN Eric Sprott says he is sorry about the losses investors in his firm's funds have had to endure as commodities have sunk, but the country's best-known hedge [...]

Byline: DEREK DeCLOET; ddecloet@globeandmail.com Dr. Hank Paulson, oncologist and chief surgeon at Holy Mother of Credit Crises Hospital in Washington, D.C., removed the twin tumours of Fannie Mae and Freddie [...]

Byline: Bloomberg News WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Federal Reserve yesterday extended its emergency lending programs to Wall Street firms through January, as policy makers judged that markets are still 'fragile.' [...]

Byline: HENRY MINTZBERG; Professor of management studies at McGill University and author of Managers not MBAs. Signs of the U.S. economy's perilous condition are everywhere - from yawning fiscal and [...]