Topic: Barack Obama
The Obama administration's mortgage relief plan has helped only about 16 percent of borrowers who signed up since its launch last year, while hundreds of thousands of homeowners remain in limbo. The Treasury Department says that as of last month, about 170,000 homeowners had ...
US President Barack Obama is giving "strong consideration" to nominating San Francisco regional central bank chief Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve Board number two, the White House said Friday. A policy dove, Yellen, 63, has strongly backed Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's policy of virtually zero interest rates and a massive expansion of the central bank's balance sheet ...
President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and pushing for House votes as early as next week. Democrats are awaiting cost assessments from the Congressional Budget Office that will allow them to finish details. Here ...
