Archive - Oct 7, 2008

The two main party candidates met in the second of three debates.  Third party candidates were excluded. At Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, the Townhall style format, members of the audience asked the questions and NBC's Tom Brokaw moderated.  The theme, domestic policy.  For the most part, both candidates stayed with in the subject areas and stayed on issues.

As the economy remains the most important topic to voters, questions revolved around the 700 billion dollar economic bail out, which has yet to provide relief to the ailing economy. 

• Congressional Committee Drills AIG Executives
• US Financial Update
• Making Some Sense of Europe's Financial Crisis with The Guardian's David Gow
• Street Beat: Southeastern Gas Crisis
• Gas Companies Seek Access to NY Watershed

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• Major ICE Raid in South Carolina
• Court Orders Release of Gitmo Detainees
• Iraq Vet’s Wife Sues US – Says VA Responsible for Husband’s Suicide
• Protests Continue in Bangkok
• Turkey Continues Strikes Against PKK
• Native Canadians Blockade Highway

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Congress is in recess, but that didn't stop Oversight Committee Chair Henry Waxman from calling a hearing on the AIG collapse. Lawmakers expressed anger at what they saw as corporate excesses and explored some of the causes of the financial crisis. Tanya Snyder reports from Washington.

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Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke offered a pessimistic view of the economy, just hours after the Fed decided more unprecedented government action is necessary to keep the financial markets afloat. Washington Editor Leigh Ann Caldwell has the details.

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Markets from South America to the Middle East are plunging, and governments around the world are strategizing to save their banks from utter collapse. In Europe, stock indexes fell as much as nine percent – and President Bush spent a good deal of time this morning calling the leaders of the UK, France and Italy, to reassure them about US plans to help stabilize various markets. David Gow is the European Business Editor for The Guardian – he explains what the European markets are contending with.

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