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Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors (Update1)

January 24th, 2010  |  Published in Uncategorized

By Heidi Przybyla

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey.
The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are [...]

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Obama critics say his economic vision lacking

January 24th, 2010  |  Published in Uncategorized

With the possibility of losses for Democrats looming in November, the president is moving to emphasize a new economic message.
By Don Lee and Jim Puzzanghera
3:50 PM PST, January 24, 2010
Reporting from Washington
With congressional support eroding, his popularity falling and his renomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke potentially in trouble, President Obama faces an [...]

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Health care bill may curtail doctor-owned hospitals in Texas

January 24th, 2010  |  Published in Uncategorized

 07:44 AM CST on Wednesday, January 20, 2010
By DAVE MICHAELS / The Dallas Morning News
dmichaels@dallasnews.com
WASHINGTON – With a booming health care market and no check on hospital growth, Texas looked ripe for more rehabilitation hospitals.
But Dallas-based Reliant Healthcare Partners’ plan to build 13 of the niche hospitals in Texas might turn out to have [...]

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Dodd on Health Care Bill: Let’s Take a Breather

January 24th, 2010  |  Published in Uncategorized

January 22, 2010, 2:46 PM ET

By Janet Adamy and Patrick Yoest
Is there a hiatus in store for the health overhaul?
Senate Banking Chairman Christopher Dodd, an architect of the Senate bill, today threw out the idea of taking “a breather for a month, six weeks” so Congress can regroup after Senate Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority [...]

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