Obama’s Clean Energy Agenda President Obama has made global warming one of the key issues of his administration and it’s an extremely ambitious agenda he’s bringing to the table. Included in his agenda is a pledge to eliminate oil imports from the Middle East and Venezuela within a decade ... Read more

That's the message from President Obama, who has instructed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to "pursue every legal avenue" to block $165 million in bonuses that the bailed out insurer plans to pay executives who were in part responsible for the company's near collapse. ... Read the ... Read more

President Obama has asked Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to looking compensation being paid to AIG (AIG) employees for work done in 2008 and to pursue “every legal avenue to block these bonuses and make the American taxpayers whole.” New York Attorney General and future government ... Read more

The Issue Congress passed a $787 billion stimulus package on February 13, 2009. The measure passed in the House with no Republican votes. Three Republican senators, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter joined the Democrats to pass the bill, by a vote of 60-38, in the Senate. President Ob ... Read more

I’m always interested in how a leader at the top of an enterprise communicates with regard to his own business. A lot depends on the corporate structure, however there are some leaders that can speak intelligently about any aspect of their company.  Others have a broad understanding ... R ... Read more

One of the bloggers I spent some time with at the Kauffman bloggers forum was Sramana Mitra, who writes for Forbes . She adds her voice to the growing chorus of those who have concerns with the Obama administration's agenda for the economy.  She is worried that advice they are getting ... ... Read more

It seems the market has lost all confidence in the Obama administration’s policies, and rightfully so.  Every time he opens his mouth and moves his silver tongue the stock market shudders.  Tim Geithner doesn’t help, Bernanke comes off as the smart one in the group, and Press Secretary ... Read more

| Mike Sykuta | Lest anyone think I (or, by association, O&M) am just a disgruntled Obama-basher, let me applaud the Administration’s announcement today of its intent to overhaul the ways in which the government contracts for goods and services , particularly in the Department of ... Read ... Read more

| Peter Klein | Assuming this is not a joke, Obama has unveiled a new stimulus-plan logo. Projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — primarily roads and bridges, I presume — will sport this handsome emblem. It lacks the 1930s-era fascist style of the NIRA ... Read the f ... Read more