Obama’s rude shock to six-figure earners

Filed Under (World Economy) by Fred Chan on 01-03-2009

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During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama tempered his pledge to substantially raise taxes for high earners with an important proviso: He’d simply restore rates to their levels during the Clinton Administration. The implication was that families in the upper brackets would see their total tax bite go back to the levels of the 1990s, but no higher.

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Obama calls for stricter rules for Wall Street

Filed Under (World Economy) by Fred Chan on 26-02-2009

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Financial institutions that pose a serious risk to markets should be subject to serious government oversight, US President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

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Obama: ‘We will recover’

Filed Under (World Economy) by Fred Chan on 25-02-2009

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President Barack Obama opened his first speech to a joint session of Congress by telling the nation “we will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.”

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