President Barack Obama said this week that he likes “a good party.” He went looking for a going-away party next door today at Treasury, where Secretary Tim Geithner is preparing to step down. At about 4 pm Washington time, Obama...
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Photograph by Pete Souza/White House
The White House Honey Ale
Obama’s Alcohol-Free Treasury Party
Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
1040 Individual Income Tax form for the 2011 tax year belonging to President Barack Obama and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama.
Obama on Look at Romney’s Taxes: `This is Pretty Standard Stuff’
President Barack Obama suggests that Mitt Romney’s disclosure of personal tax returns is a question of seeing whether everyone is “playing by the same rules.” Obama already has suggested, in campaign ads on TV, that Romney is not –with ads...
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Riot police run past a burning barricade during a miner's strike in Vega del Rey, Spain, on June 4, 2012.
Obama Urging European Action
President Barack Obama, citing “headwinds” still working against economic recovery in the United States, today urged European leaders to take steps to avert another recession there that could ripple through the American economy. “Keep in mind that this obviously can...
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