Analysis of Obama’s Policies (Energy, Health Care)

(Excerpt from a client folio published by Morgan Stanley)
Energy
This past year, energy issues dominated much of the policy agenda as oil touched $150 per barrel and gas prices soared past $4.00 per gallon across the country. With both oil and gas prices in retreat as the economy hits the brakes, energy policy has lost its [...]

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Analysis of Obama’s Policies (Business, Labor, Manufacturing, Trade)

(Excerpt from a client folio published by Morgan Stanley)
Miscellaneous Business, Labor and Manufacturing
A handful of other commercial issues currently dominate the attention of lawmakers and federal officials – payday lending reform, credit card abuse, union elections, infrastructure improvements – and Obama has identified each as a priority in 2009.
In general, Obama supports a more consumer [...]

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Analysis of Obama’s Policies (Economic Rescue, Financial Crisis, Regulatory Reform, Credit Derivatives)

(Excerpt from a client folio published by Morgan Stanley)
Financial Crisis/Economic Rescue
Obama envisions fiscal policy as a central tool for spurring the economy and blunting the coming recession. To build upon the first economic stimulus package passed in February 2008, Obama supports passage of a second stimulus bill to inject infrastructure and benefits-related spending into the [...]

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Analysis Of Obama’s Policies (Taxation)

(Excerpt from a client folio published by Morgan Stanley)
Senator Barack Obama’s electoral victory, complete with expanded majorities in the House and Senate, gives the Democrats control over the legislative and administrative processes for the first time since 1994. This has significant ramifications for the new Administration’s policies to deal with the economic crisis, as well [...]

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Matt Damon on the prospects of Sarah Palin

Very real (albeit comical) fears coming from the actor who played Jason Bourne on-screen:
I really want to know if she thinks dinosaurs roamed the earth 4,000 years ago… because she’s gonna have the nuclear codes.
It’s surreal for Americans to be voicing these fears of absurd leaders, coming from a country that [...]

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From Whence Cometh Leaders?

With the US elections barely a breath away and the impending Philippine elections coming in less than two years, some of the most burning issues that take the floor nowadays has to do with the issue of leadership?
One sometimes wonders at the idea of being a leader. Is it simply being put in a position [...]

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