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The Federal Reserve is developing some new tools for reeling in the extraordinary support it's provided to the economy, Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said Wednesday.
The Procter & Gamble Co.'s $3.1 billion sale of its prescription drug business is in line with its recent strategy of shedding products to focus on areas with the best growth and profit-margin prospects.
The U.N. unveiled a multimillion dollar strategy a dozen years ago to save children worldwide, but a new study has found the program had surprisingly little effect in Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries.
General Motors Co.'s top sales analyst says he is confident the company can make up the sales it will lose when it sheds four of its eight U.S. brands.
President Barack Obama is using a touch-all-bases approach to try push through his health care overhaul, a struggle that might demand deep concessions.
President Barack Obama sent an e-mail endorsing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds to hundreds of thousands of Obama supporters in Virginia last week, the latest indication that the lessons of Obama's 2008 presidential campaign are playing out in key state races in 2009.
The big goals of the new American general taking charge of the war in Afghanistan start with fixing a problem that bedeviled the man he is replacing: the repeated, inadvertent killing of civilians.
Obama administration officials said Friday they will devote more resources to fighting Mexican drug cartels and use new technology to thwart them while trying to quell the U.S. demand for drugs that fuels the violent gangs.
The federal government has committed trillions of dollars to domestic bailouts and propping up the recessionary economy, much of it borrowed, much created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve.
The future will be shaped by fierce competition for energy resources that may trigger military conflicts on Russia's borders, the Kremlin predicted Wednesday in a report signed by President Dmitry Medvedev.
The success of President Barack Obama's new war strategy depends heavily on factors beyond his control: Afghan competence, Pakistani cooperation and a greater willingness by Europeans and other allies to adopt the American view that al-Qaida is at the core of the conflict.
In bringing its Kindle e-book reader to a much larger audience through the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon.com Inc. may benefit even if the additional eyeballs don't translate into actual sales of the $359 Kindle device.
Can a strategy that helps Republicans get re-elected be bad for their party?
After Pittsburgh's James Harrison returned an interception 100 yards for a score on the final play of the first half, Super Bowl strategy went out the window.
Gay rights activists are weighing the wisdom of rushing in front of voters a repeal of the state ballot measure that banned gay marriage.
OPEC, the oil-producing group that consumers worldwide love to hate, is fine tuning its strategy heading into a meeting this week in Algeria, determined that its fourth attempt in as many months to reverse plummeting crude oil prices will succeed.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said Thursday the government must start to build an "exit strategy" that includes taxpayer protections for its massive financial rescue plan.
The U.S. military in Iraq is abandoning — deliberately and with little public notice — a centerpiece of the widely acclaimed strategy it adopted nearly two years ago to turn the tide against the insurgency. It is moving American troops farther from the people they are trying to protect.
Tuesday's elections leave little doubt that the Republicans' Nixon-era strategy to win over white Southerners has been a resounding success. But have they lost the rest of the country along the way?
The makers of two anti-flu drugs, attempting to bolster sales now that demand has subsided, have started programs to encourage businesses to stockpile their medicines, Tamiflu and Relenza.
Pfizer Inc. is dramatically stepping up sales efforts in emerging markets, overhauling U.S. business operations and slashing more costs ahead of the 2011 patent loss for cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor, its head of pharmaceutical operations said Monday.
So much for the full-on 50-state strategy. Call Barack Obama's implementation of national Democrats' coast-to-coast plan "Fifty-State Lite." Barack Obama's strategists say they will pick and choose where to spend time and money.
The military's top priority is to defeat al-Qaida and other extremists, but winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan alone will not achieve that, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says in a new defense policy document.
A Third Intifada?Dror Bar Yosef explains how internal disputes among the Fatah leadership stall Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations and may lead to another outbreak of violence.
Obama Must Rethink Rethinking AfghanistanBarack Obama is in danger of giving deliberation a bad name. The decision about whether to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan was never going to be easy, but events -- and a collision of egos in Kabul -- have conspired to make it even harder.
- in Afghanistan and in Texas so says Mark Steyn. Well Mr.
President Obama to Troops in Alaska: 'We'll Give You the Strategy and Clear Mission You Deserve'Much of the president's focus in the past month has been on devising a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan; he delayed this trip in part so he could hold his 8th meeting with his war council.
Pig Cognition Studies...Parallels With HumansIn the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.
Why "Surge Light" Won't Work - Richard CohenIf leaks from the White House mean anything, President Obama will opt for a mini-surge, doomed to be called Surge Light, which would mean an additional 10,000 to 20,000 troops and not the 40,000 or more that Gen. Stanley McChrystal would like.
Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategySame ideological pathologies that drive al-Qaida overpowered Hasan's American identity.
Don't Build Up in Afghanistan - Thomas L. FriedmanIt is crunch time on Afghanistan, so here's my vote: We need to be thinking about how to reduce our footprint and our goals there in a responsible way, not dig in deeper.
Politically Correct Counter-TerrorismDo counter-terrorism measures targeting bombers who dress as women offend the rights of transexuals? This is one of the pressing questions addressed in a new United Nations report on "Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism." The 23-page doc …
U.S. tested 2 Afghan scenarios in war gameThe Pentagon's top military officer oversaw a secret war game this month to evaluate the two primary military options that have been put forward by the Pentagon and are being weighed by the Obama administration as part of a broad-based review of the faltering Afghanistan war, sen …
Are the Obamanoids as dumb as they seem?Are the Obamanoids as dumb as they seem?Team Obama certainly ran a brilliant election campaign, but since they left Chicago for Washington, they seem to have dropped about twenty-five IQ points – or do they think the rest of the world is like Chicago? I'm not even sure it's …
A participant in the morning Working Capital Model (WCM) investment workshop observed: I've noticed that my account balances are returning to their (June 2007) levels. People are talking down the economy and the dollar. Is there any preemptive action I need to take?
Counterinsurgency Doctrine and the Global JihadInteresting thoughts of a retired Marine: "There have been some phony arguments put forth for another "surge" in Afghanistan. We need not a surge of troops, we merely need to let our forces there do what needs to be done - kill the enemy.
Afghan policy exposes divisions among Obama advisersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's review of his Afghanistan war strategy has exposed divisions among top aides that will be difficult to reconcile for a president who often gravitates toward middle-ground solutions.
McCain Warns that Rejection of More Troops Would be "Historic" Error -- Politics DailyMcCain advises on CNN interview for Obama to increase number of troops to Afghanistan..
American troops in Afghanistan losing heart, say army chaplainsAmerican soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine months on the front line in the war against the Taleban.
President Obama has decided not to pull out of Afghanistan. Leaders from both the right and the left have declared their support for the President, whatever his decision might be in the continuing occupation of Afghanistan.
Latest GOP Stunt on McChrystal Testimony Fails, and the GOP Is Lucky It DidAn amendment to the defense appropriations bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to compel Gen. Stanley McChrystal to testify before Congress by mid-November has failed on a party-line vote of 59 to 40. It was an escalation of a gambit most recently backed by Sen.
When President Obama was in Copenhagen, unwisely risking the prestige of the presidency on Chicago's Olympics bid, he managed a hasty 25-minute meeting with General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
Very Bad News For AmericaForeign Policy Initiative co-founder Bill Kristol appeared on last night's Hugh Hewitt's radio show, where he said that he now believes "for the first time that Obama will not accept General McChrystal's recommendation in Afghanistan." As though that's not bad enough, he floated …
Obama to take weeks to study Afghanistan strategy WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will take several weeks to review U.S. strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, the White House said on Wednesday after a meeting between top U.S. officials about the region.
Would a Troop Surge Help or Harm Afghanistan? - Michael GersonIs it conceivable that Obama will overrule the advice of military commanders at the high point of their reputations? Yes, it is conceivable.
General Stanley McChrystal demands 40,000 more troops for AfghanistanGeneral McChrystal handed made his request for more troops even though President Obama had failed to endorse his strategy for Afghanistan, which was laid out in a report delivered more than a week ago. Mr Obama is coming under pressure not to send more troops.
Who Says? or "Where's a tank to pose in for the photographers in when you need it?Obama and his aide de camp/military strategist Joe Biden are struggling to find a way to explain why Gen. Stanley McChrystal is wrong in his assessment that a fully funded and robust counterinsurgency effort is needed to avoid defeat in Afghanistan. But it isn't just McChrystal.
Obama Considers Strategy Shift in Afghan War WASHINGTON — President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.
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