White House

Budget Battles

  • Why Obama Wants to Dismiss the AT&T Antitrust Case

    By Kirk Victor, The Fiscal Times

    At first the Justice Department’s challenge to AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile looked like a renaissance of antitrust activism in the Obama administration. But the law suit has quickly...

  • Obama's Failed Mortgage Relief

    By Zachary A. Goldfarb, The Washington Post

    The Obama housing effort fell short in part because the president and his senior advisers, after a series of internal debates, decided against more dramatic actions to help homeowners, worried that...

  • All U.S. Troops out of Iraq by End of 2011

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Obama to make statement about Iraq as US nears deadline for withdrawal of US troops.

  • Gadhafi’s Death Signals Another Victory for Obama

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    The death of Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday adds another bullet point to the Obama administration’s mounting record of success on the foreign policy front. From the death of Osama bin Laden to a...

  • Obama Still Minting Money on Wall St.

    By Dan Eggen and T.W. FARNAM, The Washington Post

    Despite frosty relations with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still managed to raise far more money this year from the financial and banking sector than Mitt Romney or any other...