Obama benchmarks

Trade gap narrows to smallest in a decade
Geithner to crack down on derivatives

Fewer than expected file for unemployment (07.09.2009)

The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance fell last week, while those filing ongoing claims increased, according to government data released Thursday.

This Has Got to Stop. If Obama Doesn't Chuck His Goldman Sachs Advisors and Start Taking Back Our Financial System from the River Boat Gamblers of Wall Street, He is Going to Face a Left/Right Populist Revolt: "American International Group is preparing to pay millions of dollars more in bonuses to several dozen top corporate executives after an earlier round of payments four months ago set off a national furor."