Salt Lake Tribune - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 23:28 Philadelphia » In a quickly planned summit, President-elect Barack Obama asked the nation's governors for their input on a new economic stimulus plan that will seek to create jobs and ease the suffering of those hit hardest by the recession.
NYTimes.com - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 08:50 With word that the U.S. officially sank into a recession last December, the Fed chairman and the Treasury secretary said they would use all the tools at their disposal.
Salt Lake Tribune - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 01:28 Provo » Even with a three-month reprieve on repaying excess sales tax to the state, Utah County's unincorporated residents will still have to pay more property taxes in 2009.
Deseret News - Tue, 12/02/2008 - 01:16 No doubt, some of the more extreme elements of Barack Obama's support base have been surprised by his Cabinet appointments thus far. Instead of radical change or a leftward veer, he has chosen moderates who seem poised to keep the nation on a more-or-less steady course.
Salt Lake Tribune - Fri, 11/28/2008 - 19:58 On the heels of a campaign season rocked by allegations of bribery and influence-peddling, Utah lawmakers are crafting a bevy of bills to address campaign-finance reform, lobbyist gifts and the Legislature's rarely used ethics investigations.
Salt Lake Tribune - Wed, 11/26/2008 - 10:55 Interstate 15 and the Mountain View freeway could get a federal lift out of the budget ditch.
The massive economic "jump-start" advocated by President-elect Barack Obama could recharge those projects and others in Utah that went dark last week.
LATimes.com - Wed, 11/26/2008 - 02:00 Among the initiatives unveiled by the Treasury secretary is a $200-billion program to help ease the credit pinch for consumers in three areas: student loans, automobile purchases and credit cards.
The federal government's new $800-billion initiative to revive the nation's credit markets and reverse the deepening economic crisis propels the government into risky territory -- the uncertain world of credit cards, student borrowing, auto loans and cash-strapped small businesses.
NYTimes.com - Tue, 11/25/2008 - 07:09 The Federal Reserve and the Treasury plan to announce a lending program Tuesday to jump-start frozen loan markets, administration officials said.
Deseret News - Tue, 11/25/2008 - 01:13 Robert Hilder believes there will be good applicants for future judgeships in Utah, but he also thinks there might be people who will hesitate to apply after seeing his experiences on Capitol Hill as an unsuccessful nominee for the Utah Court of Appeals.
Deseret News - Tue, 11/25/2008 - 01:13 The unusual and turbulent rejection of Judge Robert Hilder for a spot on the Utah Court of Appeals has sent shivers through the legal community with many legal experts wondering if the process Hilder underwent will produce long-term ill effects.
CNNMoney.com - Mon, 11/24/2008 - 16:59 President-elect Barack Obama named key members of his administration's economic team Monday, including New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner as his Treasury Secretary nominee and former Harvard President Lawrence Summers as the director of the National Economic Council.
WSJ.com - Mon, 11/24/2008 - 04:51 Obama and Bush are rushing to craft measures to bolster financial markets and prevent a policy vacuum during the transition. Meanwhile, Paulson is considering tapping the second half of the government's rescue fund.
CNNMoney.com - Mon, 11/24/2008 - 03:32 President-elect Barack Obama is expected to nominate Harvard economist Lawrence Summers as head of the National Economic Council, making him Obama's top economic adviser in the White House, two sources close to the transition told CNN.
WSJ.com - Sun, 11/23/2008 - 23:43 The Fed is considering new lending facilities, more action on the federal-funds rate and purchases of long-term debt to bolster markets and the economy.
Deseret News - Sat, 11/22/2008 - 01:17 Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. spent a half-hour Friday in Washington, D.C., with the head of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team but not because he's vying for a spot in the new administration.
The choice of Timothy Geithner to be the next Treasury Secretary was greeted enthusiastically on Wall Street and sparked a huge rally in stocks.