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The election could mark a pivot point for organized labor.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/31/2012 5:31 AM | Add Comment

“If you look over the next six months, ultimately the incentives are” there to keep “the euro zone all together. We’re possibly at an inflection point.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Romney still faces a dual challenge of overcoming tepid favorability ratings and persuading voters why they should support him and not simply vote against Mr. Obama.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Even human rights groups are not demanding intervention.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Over the weekend, the conservative columnist George F. Will caustically questioned whether Mr. Trump could widen Mr. Romney’s support.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

That may be an awkward meeting after Trump embarrassed Romney by saying that Obama was not born in the United States, a claim Romney does not agree with.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 5:45 AM | Add Comment

So will the Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors more political advertising than any other group, follow the clear language of the court order and begin revealing the names of its donors? Of course not.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

If the U.S. doesn’t modernize its governing institutions, the nation will stagnate. The ghost of Hamilton will be displeased.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 8:30 AM | Add Comment

The leveraged-loan market is used by companies with high-yield or noninvestment-grade credit ratings, making it particularly sensitive to Europe's debt crisis, now in its third year.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

Stocks were down broadly in Spain.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

From there, the president flew to California, the cash cow for Democrats.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 5:00 AM | Add Comment

To Germans and quite a few others, though, euro bonds would be a lot like co-signing a loan for a deadbeat brother-in-law.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/29/2012 12:00 AM | Add Comment

White Horse

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/28/2012 8:29 PM | Add Comment

Blair said today his relationship with Murdoch is very different than when he was in office and said the ties at the time were a “working relationship,” rather than cozy.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/28/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Six media executives wound up in the top 15 of the Associated Press’s list of highest-paid executives released last week; not a single banker joined them.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/28/2012 12:30 PM | Add Comment

The richer opportunity comes from California, where Proposition 8, banning gay marriage, has already been overturned by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/28/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Four years after the 2008 collapse, the finance industry has regained its dominant position in American politics.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/28/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

There is no solution without sacrifices, no new Europe without new rules, no growth without the right structures.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

President George W. Bush’s administration specifically targeted workers in raids that traumatized communities and companies.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 11:29 AM | Add Comment

As much as any Republican administration, Mr. Obama’s has focused narrowly on the costs of a rule compared to its benefits, and has for political reasons rejected rules opposed by business.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 10:30 AM | Add Comment

“Thank goodness it was just prostitutes. They could have been spies planting equipment. They could have blackmailed or drugged agents. This is Colombia, for heaven’s sake.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 8:30 AM | Add Comment

The British clearly had nothing but contempt for American sovereignty.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/27/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

“It is a shock,” said Ahmed Kabany, 38, an engineer, after the voting. “I don’t want either one, so I am not going to vote.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/26/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

“A united Europe is in Germany’s interest,” Monti said. “We’ll have euro bonds if the euro area, and therefore Germany, will want them.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/26/2012 8:30 PM | Add Comment

An early glimpse of his views on Mr. Obama can be found in a June 2010 graduation speech he gave at Bellevue University in Nebraska

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/26/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

As mortgage rates have hit one record low after another, millions of homeowners have been forced to watch, longingly, from the sidelines.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/26/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

"Sgt. Q is hit."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/26/2012 2:30 PM | Add Comment

“It’s a North Carolina that exists but that I don’t recognize. There are two North Carolinas: the progressive cities and college towns, and places where there are no openly gay people.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/26/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

In many cases, he said, they are “simply opening whatever new accounts overseas and in other currencies that are easiest to have,” whether in Luxembourg, Canada or Norway.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/26/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

“Governor Romney is the nominee. He’s been directing his comments to, and about, the president for a year. The debate has been joined.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

Euro Breakup Chances Risen to 35%, Garner Says --- Bloomberg

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

But he appears to have almost no chance of winning the state now. This is not to say that he will also lose the presidency, only that the historical odds are against him.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Although the Romney campaign plans to argue that Mr. Romney created jobs during his time at Bain, the proposition is a tricky one; the driving force of private equity is to create profits for investors

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Describing Bo's downfall as a serious but isolated case of wrongdoing, Hu urged officials at the meeting to end ideological rifts and rumors ignited by the scandal, the sources added.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 3:15 PM | Add Comment

They blew it, again. With Greece in meltdown, raising fears of cascading bank insolvencies and deepening recession, Europe’s leaders failed again this week to agree on the ambitious initiatives needed to quell the crisis.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

On Thursday, Mr. Michel described the reference to illegality as “a very bad joke that shouldn’t have been made” and said it was “just an expression of surprise.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Really, Nancy?? Seriously???

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 12:15 PM | Add Comment

A SURE SIGN YOU'VE LOST THE DEBATE: The emotional ad hominem attack!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

It just means that support for gay marriage and robust heterosexual marriages are likely to coexist in the same geographic spaces.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 10:30 AM | Add Comment

One proposal would require the board to prepare a detailed report on the firm’s lobbying efforts and how much it spends on them.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

JPMorgan is reluctant to provide the nitty-gritty details of the broken hedge because it fears other market players will bet against the trade if they know its characteristics, making the bank’s losses even bigger.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 9:30 AM | Add Comment

Think about where we are right now, in the fifth year of a slump brought on by irresponsible bankers.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 8:15 AM | Add Comment

There is an undeniable perception problem.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 8:00 AM | Add Comment

“A united Europe is in Germany’s interest,” Monti said. “We’ll have euro bonds if the euro area, and therefore Germany, will want them.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

A Greek opinion poll showed the Syriza party, which is opposed to implementing Greece’s international financial rescue, building on its lead in voter support ahead of elections to be held June 17.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/25/2012 4:59 AM | Add Comment

“It’s about distrust,” Mr. Fiani said. “This is another stock market rigging.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

In fact, Mr. Obama has crossed teachers’ unions, notably in 2010 when he praised a mass firing of teachers in Rhode Island in a showdown over an administration policy to radically overhaul failing high-poverty schools.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Yet the photo is tangible evidence of what polls also show: Mr. Obama remains a potent symbol for blacks, with a deep reservoir of support.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Karl Rove

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 4:30 PM | Add Comment

The poll, conducted by Suffolk University/7 News in Boston, showed the contest nearly even between Ms. Warren and Senator Scott P. Brown

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Many economists say the oligarchs are a big part of Greece’s economic problem, because they have capitalized on the insular, quasi-monopolistic approach to business

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

“I feel like it is a dream coming true, and I hope that it lasts.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

Signs of weakness in euro-zone business activity added to a poor reading on German business sentiment.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 8:35 AM | Add Comment

When people are asked to identify themselves by political ideology, Americans may appear to be center-right, but independents look more like Democrats than Republicans on moral issues.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 7:36 AM | Add Comment

Now Dr. Spitzer, who just turned 80, has acknowledged that his survey was deeply flawed.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 6:15 AM | Add Comment

“Karl Rove’s fear-and-smear-style Republicans are going to wake up at the end of the year and realize we are now in control of the Republican Party,” said Preston Bates

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

The Chamber is planning to invest heavily in Senate races it considers critical, including in Massachusetts, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana, Florida, Missouri and North Dakota.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

“Bernanke took it upon himself to do more to help the economy along.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Aside from shipbuilding, most of Greece’s industrial base has eroded in the 30 years since the government nationalized large areas of industry.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Bono for Pope???

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 4:30 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Obama champions government as a linchpin of future economic growth and the average American’s protector from the excesses and failures of the free market.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

“They hold Germans responsible for all their misery,” said the 62-year-old from near Stuttgart. “You want to go on holiday to have a comfortable break, not to be lynched.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 3:30 PM | Add Comment

“Senator Hatch rode a wave of discontent with the establishment people — people who had been there years and years and were part of the system, and then after 36 years he has become the system,” said Mr. Liljenquist

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Steven Rattner: "Adding jobs was never Mitt Romney’s private sector agenda, and it’s appropriate to question his ability to do so."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Under the forfait, expenditure is calculated at not less than five times the annual rental value of the individual’s home in Switzerland.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

If Bain is fair game, is there something about the Obama ad that is out of bounds? The ad received a "mostly true" rating from PolitiFact

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 12:15 PM | Add Comment

The Gingrich Group bankruptcy proceedings spotlight the remarkable reversal of fortune of the half-dozen organizations associated with Gingrich.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

The president tops the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, 47% to 43%, when Americans are asked their choice today for president

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 11:29 AM | Add Comment

JPMorgan’s whale is proving big enough to change the tide of regulatory reform in Washington.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

After their first three kids, they sagely decided family planning was not soul-staining.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 8:31 AM | Add Comment

Religious freedom is subject to necessary limitations in the interests of public health and safety.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 8:00 AM | Add Comment

The Group of Eight issued a tepid non-statement over the weekend and no new news on the European debt crisis was comparatively good news.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/23/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

“It’s inciting class warfare,” said Carolyn Lenert, head of the North San Rafael Coalition of Residents.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Tsipras, 37, vaulted to prominence in the voting two weeks ago with the surprising popularity of his minor left-wing party, as many voters embraced his message that Greece’s debt deal with foreign creditors is a disaster.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 9:00 PM | Add Comment

"So they won't let us go bankrupt, no way. These are just threats. I'm going to vote anti-bailout."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Long before the Republican primary battle drew to a close last month, Republican-aligned groups were spending heavily on advertisements to soften Mr. Obama up.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Japan’s sovereign-credit rating was lowered by Fitch Ratings

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 4:30 PM | Add Comment

“None of what happened in Marion in the 1990s would be very interesting,” Johnson notes, “if Mitt Romney had not built his entire political career on the claim that he’s a job creator.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 2:30 PM | Add Comment

The Dodd-Frank law was supposed to bring much-needed oversight to the multitrillion-dollar market for derivatives, including transparent trading, mandatory reporting and higher capital and collateral requirements.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

“My view of private equity is that it is set up to maximize profits and that’s a healthy part of the free market,” Obama said. “That’s not always going to be good for communities or businesses or workers.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

Obama delivered a rip-roaring address at the University of North Carolina, in which he mocked the Republicans for wanting to make hardworking, non-affluent students victims of their budget-cutting impulses.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2012 12:00 AM | Add Comment

Bain also helped businesses grow, so “these things had redeeming social value, in addition to making Mitt and his investors a lot of money.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 8:30 PM | Add Comment

Both men favor a more balanced economic approach that includes measures to foster growth as well as cuts in national budgets.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Is the Democratic party the tribune of the underdog or the slave of special interests?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Unlike political parties and candidates, super PACs and other outside groups can accept unlimited contributions, thanks in part to the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Millions of dollars in outside money began pouring into Congressional contests around the country in April

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

G-8 leaders on May 19 urged Greece to stay within the euro area as polls in the country showed a close race between parties supporting and opposing the EU’s bailout deal.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 12:15 PM | Add Comment

About 45 protesters were arrested on Sunday, and at least four officers were injured, according to the Chicago Police superintendent

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

Restore Our Future, an outside "Super PAC" backing Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, raised $3.9 million in April, less than half of its haul in March

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 9:15 AM | Add Comment

Will we get that kind of regulation? Not if Mr. Romney wins, obviously; he wants to repeal Dodd-Frank, and in general has made it clear that he would do everything in his power to set us up for another financial crisis.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 8:00 AM | Add Comment

London relies heavily on international finance and banking instability would strike a fresh blow to an economy already in recession.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 6:30 AM | Add Comment

Bloomberg Surveillance: With Ken Prewitt and Tom Keene

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/21/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

On Capitol Hill and in state legislatures, Republicans are attacking women’s rights in four broad areas.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

In any case he went rogue, like a missile or a Palin, and in doing so illustrated two disturbing, corrosive dynamics in our political culture right now.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

He is now chief of tank assembly. Mr. Kholmanskikh’s political experience dates back several months to late last year, when he organized a committee to support Mr. Putin.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

In keeping with tradition, the decree was formally posted at the entrance of the Greek parliament.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 1:29 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Tsipras said: “The healthy businesses here have nothing to fear from a government that’s going to try to stop this poison. Healthy businesses understand that austerity curbs consumption.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

“I’m not familiar, precisely, with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was,” Mr. Romney said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Boehner admitted that "allowing America to default would be irresponsible."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 10:30 AM | Add Comment

“If anything, having an understanding of it, I have a keen awareness of the issues, I have a keen awareness of my own privacy,” she said, adding that she planned to watch whether Facebook’s approach to privacy would change as it faced extra pressures to m

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

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