E-reader News Edition - 31/08/10 http://www.LibertyNewspost.com Rough spots for Obama on the economic…. statement Patricia Zengerle (Front Row going to take nearly a decade in Washington) order…” And then he stopped Submitted at 8/30/2010 5:59:31 PM again, and asked, “Can you guys still hear us? OK. Let me try this Things were looking good for one more time.” President Barack Obama’s The third time was the charm, Is There a statement on the U.S. as he continued and finished a 5 economy in the White House -minute statement, saying his Gender Divide Rose Garden: the sun was economic team is hard at work shining in a bright blue late- coming up with new efforts to August sky. boost the economy, and calling in Startups? It was a chance to show that he on Congress to pass legislation Leah Culver (Business was paying close attention to the meant to boost small businesses. Insider) issue most on the minds of Was the sputtering sound Submitted at 8/31/2010 11:15:29 AM Americans. The statement came system a metaphor, perhaps, for just after he ended a 10-day the economy? The blogosphere has renewed vacation trip to the pricey resort Photo credit: Obama taps his the debate about the gender island of Martha’s Vineyard, of technical problems with the families and businesses across microphone to check the sound disparity in the tech industry. and before he launched into a White House sound system. this country. What we did know as he speaks about the economy Leah Culver, co-founder of a week largely devoted to foreign “It’s been nearly two years since was that it took nearly a from the Rose Garden of the successful microblogging site, policy, with an Iraq speech and that terrible September when decade…” Obama said, and then White House in Washington on shares what it’s like on the Mideast peace talks on the our economy teetered on the stopped himself mid-sentence, August 30, 2010. (REUTERS/ frontlines of the startup sex agenda. brink of collapse. 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Obama had to start deep the recession would go, or He then started again: “What full story >>> his remarks three times because the havoc that it would wreak on we did know was that it was Join the conversation about this story » 2 Headline/ E-reader News Edition Washington Extra – Just Keep Smiling Simon Denyer (Front Row the middle class that are set to For the full story by Lucia effect, leading to more Washington) expire this year, increasing Mutikani, click here. industrial farming and potential Submitted at 8/30/2010 5:54:08 PM government support for clean Obama widens sanctions on escapes into the wild. energy development, and North Korea For the full story by Susan In the past few days we have rebuilding more U.S. President Barack Obama Heavey click here. seen the president and the infrastructure. broadened financial sanctions on U.S. to propose labeling chairman of the Federal Reserve Obama did say he was North Korea and froze the U.S. greenhouse gases from cars both standing up and insisting considering “further tax cuts to assets of four North Korean The United States will propose they had more cards at their encourage businesses to put citizens and eight firms in part new labels for passenger disposal to rescue the faltering their capital to work creating to punish it for the sinking of a vehicles, detailing for the first American economy. In truth, jobs here in the United States,” South Korea warship. Obama time their greenhouse gas though, both men look like they and he also appealed to Senate signed an executive order that emissions while also changing are holding weak hands, and are Republicans to drop their allows the United States to measurements of fuel economy. reduced, for the time being, to “blockade” of a bill meant to block the assets of North Korea The labeling proposed by the putting a brave face on things. make credit more easily entities that trade in Environmental Protection With short-term interest rates available for small businesses. conventional arms or luxury Agency and the Department of already at zero, Ben Bernanke More details of his proposals are products, counterfeit currency or Transportation would allow has few cards he can play, and promised in the days and weeks engage in money laundering, consumers to compare cars in none of them feel like sure-fire ahead, and we will be watching Obama, just back from a 10-day drug smuggling or other “illicit terms of emissions blamed for winners. 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Analysts salmon, something the Roger Clemens pleads not Today Obama promised that his President Barack Obama, said the 0.4 percent increase in company says could boost the guilty to lying charges economic team was “hard at under pressure to bolster the spending reported by the nation’s fish sector and reduce Former baseball pitching star work in identifying additional economy, said he and his Commerce Department was a pressure on the environment. Roger Clemens pleaded not measures” to support the economic advisers are relief after a raft of weak data But consumer advocates and guilty to six counts that he lied economy and boost hiring. 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