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Ann Romney during a dressage event.
Updated at 12:45 pm and 2 pm EDT Messing with Ann Romney, it appears, can get messy. First there was Hilary Rosen, the Democratic activist who said that Mitt Romney’s wife, a mother of five, had never worked a day...
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Back-to-school shopping in Colma, California.
Are you better off than you were four years ago? How about nine years ago? The numbers on back-to-school shopping show a bigger increase in spending by U.S. consumers than at any time since 2003. The numbers also conceal what...
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Actor Morgan Freeman at the 'The Dark Knight Rises' world premiere in New York City.
When Priorities USA Action, the super-PAC backing President Barack Obama, reports its $6 million monthly haul to the Federal Election Commission, one of the donors listed will be the actor Morgan Freeman. He gave $1 million. “President Obama has done...
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Mitt Romney in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
A few storm warnings for the president: – From the New York Times and CBS: Voter disapproval of President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy is hurting his re-election prospects and improving the outlook for Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a New...
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Pedestrians pass in front the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. building in New York.
If only revolving doors could generate electricity. It’s been almost two years since the Dodd-Frank legislation was signed into law, and regulators at the Treasury, the Fed and the CFTC have reported meeting with the 20 biggest banks 1,298 times...
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President Barack Obama during a meeting of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Here’s what’s wrong with 30 seconds in politics: The president has a lot on his plate. So said Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, when asked why the president’s Jobs Council hasn’t met in several months. So notes the...
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White House economists, Alan Kreuger and Gene Sperling, left, versus Team Bloomberg, Hans Nichols and Peter Cook, right.
As a Washington journalist, there’s only one thing worse than being beaten on a White House story: Being beaten by the White House itself. Last night, my Bloomberg colleague Hans Nichols and I faced off on the tennis court with...
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Mitt Romney supporters at a primary night party in Tampa, Florida.
President Barack Obama will kick off a two-day campaign swing tomorrow in Florida, the biggest of all swing states, where voters have seen plenty of him, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and their surrogates blitzing the television airwaves. Florida television stations...
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Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of the Goldman Sachs Group, at the Economic Club of Washington luncheon, on July 18, 2012.
The White House welcomed Wall Street through its doors today with a visit from Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who was in town to speak at the Economic Club of Washington. But it was not to meet with President Barack...
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Mitt Romney during a campaign rally at the Bowling Green Community Center July 18, 2012 in Ohio.
Updated finally at 3:05 pm EDT Who wears a tie to a town hall? Mitt Romney, up now in Bowling Green, Ohio. With Ohio Governor John Kasich, also in a tie. “Bowling Green rocks,” Kasich explained. “Every day I have...
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