LONDON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday an economic stimulus package will need a healthy financial system behind it to make it work.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Obama transition team officials Sunday offered concessions on a proposed economic stimulus package, U.S. senators said after a meeting in Washington.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The scope of a recovery plan for the punk U.S. economy will be discussed by President-elect Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, party officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is considering a far bigger economic stimulus plan than before as job losses mount and the economy deteriorates, sources say.
CHICAGO, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama Saturday pledged to create millions of jobs by investing in road, bridge, sewer and other public utility projects.
PARIS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday unveiled a $33 billion economic stimulus plan aimed at jump starting France's economy.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- State governments will provide the impetus that helps turn the U.S. economy around and guide it to a prosperity, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday.
CHICAGO, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will use the advisory setup he relied on during his campaign to draw on outside expert advice on key issues, aides said.
CHICAGO, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama named Paul Volcker and Austan Goolsbee to a new President's Economic Advisory Board.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Governors will have a chance to bend U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's ear on how the national economic crisis is ravaging state budgets, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve officials say they hope a broad, new lending program for consumers and businesses will help thaw frozen loan markets.
CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- President-elect Barack Obama said Monday the U.S. economy has to be jolted back to life, and worrying about the country's deficit can wait until later.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A bleak U.S. economic outlook is prompting President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats to fast-track another $700 billion stimulus package, aides said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will push for a more aggressive economic stimulus package than the one he proposed on the campaign trail, an aide said Sunday.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers is U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's pick for White House economic adviser, sources say.
