from stratfor.com
by Scott Stewart
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
For the past several years, STRATFOR has published an annual forecast on al Qaeda and the jihadist movement. Since our first jihadist forecast in January 2006, we have focused heavily on the devolution of jihadism from a phenomenon primarily involving the core al [...]
from bloomberg.com
by David G. Blanchflower
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama held a jobs summit last week. It surely was a coincidence that unemployment figures released the day after showed the U.S. jobless rate fell in November.
True, unemployment did decline in July too, but only to increase in August, September and October. [...]
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article from voiceofAmerica
Sensitive to criticism his accomplishments do not equal those of past winners, the president has described his own Nobel Prize as a call to action.
U.S. President Barack Obama is in Oslo to formally accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Obama began his stay in [...]
from businessweek.com
Commentary by Caroline Baum
Bloomberg’s Caroline Baum says the big question for Obama is what to do if employers are hacking away at their permanent workforce
(Bloomberg) — All last week I was frantic waiting for my invitation to the White House Jobs Summit to arrive. I thought about crashing, but [...]
from sbartstv
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President Obama on Job Creation and Economic Growth President Obama outlines the steps his Administration has taken to stimulate economic growth and plans to create new American jobs in remarks to the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. December 8, 2009.
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from cnnmoney.com
By Jennifer Liberto, CNNMoney.com senior writer
President wants to extend tax breaks for small business, invest in infrastructure and give rebates to consumers who make homes energy efficient.
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) — President Obama on Tuesday outlined a broad new proposal to try to spur jobs and give more help to Main Street [...]
from nytimes.com
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
In the strongest jobs report since the recession began, the government reported Friday that the nation’s employers had all but stopped shedding jobs in November, taking some of the pressure off of President Obama to come up with a jobs creation program.
The Labor Department reported Friday that the [...]
from bloomberg.com
By Nicholas Johnston
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama will show the limits of his ability to attack unemployment as he hosts a job- creation summit at the White House today.
The forum will assemble economists, union heads and business leaders such as Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Mountain View, California-based [...]
from stratfor
by George Friedman
U.S. President Barack Obama announced the broad structure of his Afghanistan strategy in a speech at West Point on Tuesday evening. The strategy had three core elements. First, he intends to maintain pressure on al Qaeda on the Afghan-Pakistani border and in other regions of the world. Second, he [...]
Excuse my opinion, but this is my take on what is happening moving to 2010 and beyond.
The Governor’s race in both Virginia and New Jersey was predicated by the economic condistions there. As it is all over the nation, unemploymet is devastating our economy. The smoke and mirrors we are being given doesn’t replace a [...]
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