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Saturday, January 31, 2009

DENVER COMPANIES - Obama pledges mortgage help with new financial plan - Forbes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama promised Saturday to help lower Americans' mortgage costs with a new plan, coming soon, that would revive the financial system and "get credit flowing again." Obama, who has made fighting the country in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to lower mortgage costs, offer job-creating loans for small businesses, get credit flowing and rein in free-spending executives as he readies a new road map for spending billions from the in Dow Jones News >

Who do you trust? One creeping consequence of today’s complicated financial world is that we trust fewer people than did our grandparents, who were unlikely to have even a bank account, let alone a structured investment based on put and call in Dow Jones News >

The Wall Street crowd that packed into the ballroom of the fancy Times Square hotel didn't know what was about to hit it. As the bankers and analysts sliced into their grilled beef tenderloin and chicken, Sheila Bair stepped up to the microphone and in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The Obama administration is unlikely to impose tougher restrictions on executive pay on most firms receiving aid under the government's $700 billion financial rescue program, The Washington Post reported on Saturday in Dow Jones News >

I told you so. That’s the cry from a growing band of financial doomsayers. While only weeks ago nobody could possibly have foreseen the crisis — or so it was said — now, apparently, many people did. Everyone from David Blanchflower, maverick in Dow Jones News >

- Chinese Premier Wen, in Britain, says buying of U.S. Treasuries to depend on need to protect value of foreign investments "Soon my treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, will announce a new strategy for reviving our financial system that gets credit in Dow Jones News >

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