Monday, February 09, 2009

SPB News for Monday.


Reformist will challenge Ahmadinejad's hardline government.

Sebelius top pick for HHS secretary

US Treasury to pump billions more into banks Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, will tomorrow set out the American government’s plan to inject billions of dollars into the country’s troubled banks and ringfence their toxic assets. The announcement is seen in the markets as key to steering the global economy out of its deepest postwar recession, along with President Barack Obama’s $820 billion (£555 billion) fiscal-stimulus plan.

IMF may run out of cash to fight crisis in six months, Strauss-Khan warns The International Monetary Fund could run out of cash to firefight the economic crisis in as little as six months, its managing director has warned. Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the Fund needed an urgent cash infusion if it was to continue bailing out troubled economies in the future. Mr Strauss-Kahn also indicated that the world's advanced economies were now tipping from recession into full-blown [Bush] depression.

Last week's poll had asked:

What's the best part of the Super Bowl 43? There was tie between all of them above and none above; My team wasn't in the Super Bowl. This week's poll is now up.

1 comment:

PrissyPatriot said...

I just cannot believe President Obama's team isn't picking Dr Dean. He already did great things with health care in his own state.

Gov Kathleen is a wonderful smart lady, but Dean is perfect for the job. I'm sure she would be more effective in another slot.