Amid calls from some liberals that she step down in time for President Obama to name her successor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she was fully engaged in her work. ... Justice Ginsburg said her retirement calculations would center on her health and not on who would appoint her successor, even if that new justice could tilt the balance of the court and overturn some of the landmark women’s rights decisions that are a large part of her legacy.
Amid calls from some liberals that she step down in time for President Obama to name her successor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she was fully engaged in her work.
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Justice Ginsburg said her retirement calculations would center on her health and not on who would appoint her successor, even if that new justice could tilt the balance of the court and overturn some of the landmark women’s rights decisions that are a large part of her legacy.
Ms. Quinn has no specific plan to require the richest New Yorkers to pay more in taxes in service of important civic goals (she says she will raise taxes as a last resort), but neither has she made a long list of unrealistic promises. The biggest challenge has not been talked about much — next year the new mayor will have to confront a budget crisis with no money to spare and all those expired municipal contracts to settle.
Obama has insisted he will not negotiate on the debt ceiling. But the confluence of events this fall will make it hard to separate that deadline from a budget deal. Corker said the "no negotiation" stance of the White House is merely rhetorical. "Why are we talking right now?" he asked. "Deadlines help focus people's minds. We don't sit around talking about the deadlines. But let's face, it, the funding of government next year and the debt ceiling issue, of course that's what driving these conversations to take place."
Obama has insisted he will not negotiate on the debt ceiling. But the confluence of events this fall will make it hard to separate that deadline from a budget deal.
Corker said the "no negotiation" stance of the White House is merely rhetorical.
"Why are we talking right now?" he asked. "Deadlines help focus people's minds. We don't sit around talking about the deadlines. But let's face, it, the funding of government next year and the debt ceiling issue, of course that's what driving these conversations to take place."
But Cheney's entry onto the political stage in this deeply conservative state, where hunting and fishing are sacred rights, was marred by reports that she had inappropriately obtained a resident fishing license after living in Wyoming for just a few months.
“The biggest bubble of them all,” said Vincent Reinhart, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, “has been the bubble in central banking.” Only six years ago, there was a general agreement as to what role these powerful, secretive institutions should play and how they should influence the economy. That understanding has been called the “Jackson Hole Consensus” because it reflected ideas arrived at in no small part at the economic symposium held in Grand Teton National Park every August, sponsored by the Kansas City Fed. The latest symposium concluded Saturday.
“The biggest bubble of them all,” said Vincent Reinhart, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, “has been the bubble in central banking.”
Only six years ago, there was a general agreement as to what role these powerful, secretive institutions should play and how they should influence the economy. That understanding has been called the “Jackson Hole Consensus” because it reflected ideas arrived at in no small part at the economic symposium held in Grand Teton National Park every August, sponsored by the Kansas City Fed. The latest symposium concluded Saturday.