President Repeats First-Term Answers to Rising Gas Prices- April 30, 2008 Soaring gasoline prices spilled over into Washington and the presidential race yesterday, as Congress moved toward a showdown with President Bush over legislation aimed at forcing oil companies to help ease the burden on consumers.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/280210776/AR20... Fed Decision on Key Rate Presents Risks Either Way- April 30, 2008 The Federal Reserve will decide today whether to cut interest rates for the seventh time in seven months. For leaders of the central bank, there is no obvious course of action, with big risks no matter what they do.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/280785234/AR20... Oversight Lax on Labor Grants, Audit Says- April 30, 2008 In the past seven years, the Labor Department awarded more than $271 million to groups to help train workers for high-demand jobs, but a new audit suggests that the agency often failed to ensure the public was getting something for its tax dollars.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/280785233/AR20... Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars- April 30, 2008 CHARLES CITY, Iowa Erwin Johnson picks up a clump of the dark, rich soil that he has farmed for 35 years, like his father and grandfather before him. In a few months, this flat expanse of northern Iowa will be crowded with corn ready to be trucked to market. A year ago, that market got a little ...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/280785232/AR20... Emptying the Breadbasket- April 29, 2008 At Stephen Fleishman's busy Bethesda shop, the era of the 95-cent bagel is coming to an end.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/279939527/AR20... Ex-Fed Official Sharply Criticizes Decision to Rescue Bear Stearns- April 29, 2008 Vincent Reinhart, a former senior policy adviser to Alan Greenspan and current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, said the central bank's rescue of Bear Stearns was the "worst policy decision in a generation."http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/279939528/AR20... The New Economics of Hunger- April 27, 2008 The globe's worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America's great grain exchanges. At first, it seemed like little more than a bout of bad weather.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/279939529/AR20... Honduran Socks to Face Tariff, But U.S. Firms Say It's Too Small- April 26, 2008 The Bush administration said yesterday that it will impose a six-month tariff on socks imported from Honduras in an effort to give domestic manufacturers temporary relief from a surge of imports following the passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/279939530/AR20... McCain Offers Tax Policies He Once Opposed- April 25, 2008 On May 26, 2001, after then-Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) cast his vote against President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut, he trudged back to his office, convinced, he recalled, that he had been the lone Republican to oppose the largest tax cut in two decades.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/277684717/AR20... Bush Plan To Contract Federal Jobs Falls Short- April 25, 2008 Joseph Wassmann thought he had a secure position producing videos for the U.S. Military Academy, but not long ago he found his job on the line because of a Bush administration plan to inject more efficiency into the federal bureaucracy.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/economy/index_xml/~3/277684715/AR20... |