While United States President Barack Obama and his Cabinet received mixed reviews in a new opinion poll, the first lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have scored high marks......
My fellow columnist Gordon G Chang made a piquant point in this space last week in his preview of Hillary Clinton's trip to East Asia -- her first trip abroad as secretary of state. Chiding her for......
United States President Barack Obama, in an effort to rejuvenate the battered US economy, on Thursday nominated his chief-of-staff and budget specialist Jack Lew as the next treasury secretary. "I......
The weather in Washington is balmy, but Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in the US to attend a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, would feel a distinct chill as he......
Post-crisis US has little standing in trumpeting the benefits of financial sector deregulation, let alone in pushing the interests of its maligned financial sector, says Arvind Subramanian. The......
Some US banks are walking wounded. Some are the living dead. A full 21 months into the credit crisis, investors are still unclear about which banks are which. The banking system cannot function......
US President Barack Obama has said that owing to some "tough measures" taken by his administration, the American economy is better positioned for tomorrow than most of the other countries hit by......
As World Bank President Robert Zoellick gets ready to step down in June, the inevitable speculation about his successor has begun. And given the state of the US and Europe, much commentary has been......