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  • Fees on Structured Notes Tied to Stocks Climb to Three-Year High

    Banks charged almost 2 percent in average fees on U.S. structured notes tied to stocks in the first quarter, the most for any three-month period in at least three years.

  • Envoy Caroline Kennedy Could Challenge Japan’s Gender Gap

    President Barack Obama’s anticipated choice of Caroline Kennedy to be the next U.S. ambassador to Japan would put a woman with an international political pedigree into a high-profile U.S. diplomatic post.

  • Republican Born Roosevelt Digs Deep for Texas Oil Found With CO2

    Elliott Roosevelt Jr., a grandson of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, grins and leans toward visitors in his Dallas office to describe his biggest discovery in 53 years as an oilman.

  • Caroline Kennedy Said to Be Obama Choice for Japan Envoy

    President Barack Obama plans to name Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, according to a person familiar with the matter.

  • Stockman Warns of Crash of Fed-Fueled Bubble Economy

    The U.S. economy is in a bubble inflated by “phony money” from the Federal Reserve and will burst within a few years, warned David Stockman, who was budget director for President Ronald Reagan.

  • Obama May Help Democrats’ Future in Shift to FDR

    Like Clinton or like Roosevelt? That’s the question people are raising about the kind of second term that U.S. President Barack Obama will seek.

  • Obama, FDR and the Second Bill of Rights

    As the actions of his first term made clear, and as his second inaugural address declared, President Barack Obama is committed to a distinctive vision of American government. It emphasizes the importance of free enterprise, and firmly rejects “equality of result,” but it is simultaneously committed to ensuring both fair opportunity and decent security for all.

  • Obama Is a Loser Who Wins, Like FDR in 1936

    The loser wins. That’s the way it can go in presidential elections. Especially when the ballot involves a likable incumbent who happens to be failing when it comes to his task of helping the U.S. economy.

  • What Obama Can Learn From FDR

    Here’s my advice for President Barack Obama as he embarks on his second term: Follow the example of one of your heroes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Not the Roosevelt of the first two terms but the Roosevelt of the next two. The Roosevelt who won the war.

  • Louis Kahn FDR Memorial Rises in New York River After 40 Years

    New York’s East River swirls around a roofless room, an unfinished shrine built of massive stones. It’s the first visible part of what will be a five-acre memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the southern tip of the island renamed for him.

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