Posts Tagged ‘global change’

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Obama: a platform of change to stimulate the economy?

This article was sent to SFS investment clients on 6 November 2008.

In his first television interview since his historic election victory, Democrat President-elect Barack Obama said  stimulating the economy was a top priority – even if it meant adding to the nation’s growing deficit. 

“I think what’s interesting about the time that we’re in right now is that you actually have a consensus among conservative Republican-leaning economists and liberal left-leaning economists. And the consensus is this: that we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again, that we’re gonna have to spend money now to stimulate the economy,” Obama said. (more…)