Comment, analysis and other offerings from Monday’s FT,Clive Crook: Stimulus for America — as good as it gotBarack Obama’s administration faces a torrid time between...

...an open letter from Michael Moore Dear President Obama, I understand you may be looking to replace Rahm Emanuel as your chief of staff.

Forget the current estimates, the deficits are going to be much, much worse. Just a few days after Senator Jim Bunning was labeled a “lunatic” for trying to enforce the recently enact Pay-As-You-Go laws, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) releasted its analysis of the Obama Administration’s federal budget proposal.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government budget deficit for the next decade is expected to be wider by 1.2 trillions dollars than projected by President Barack Obama's administration, estimates by Congress showed Friday.

The elections in Iraq on March 7, 2010, are likely to serve as an important indicator of the prospects for a resolution of the long-running dispute over the administration of the ethnically mixed and resource-rich province of Kirkuk in the north of the country.

Cumbernauld-based Packaging Scotland has entered administration, Packaging News has learned.

The US Treasury has released further details of the Obama administration’s proposals to overhaul the banking industry. In a five page briefing, the body outlined proposals to prevent commercial bank-owning firms and institutions from proprietary trading. In a summery, the US government stated:...

Paul Grant, Accountancy Age, Friday 5 March 2010 at 10:14:00 Optimism high for successful conclusion of administration as interest in iconic brand floods in Administrators for the UK branch of Reader’s Digest have said that nearly 100 expressions of interest have been made in purchasing the business....

THE business and assets of Cardiff firm Amadeus, which made cups and bowls for the toddler market, has been bought out of administration.

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - The tax on banks proposed by the Democratic Obama administration would be passed along to consumers, a leading Republican lawmaker said on Thursday, citing a nonpartisan budget analysis.