Tag: Mitt Romney

• Saturday, November 10th 2012 - 05:08 UTC

  Next week takes off the ‘fiscal cliff’’ battle with meeting in White House of party leaders

  

  Newly re-elected President Barack Obama said on Friday the wealthy must pay more taxes under any political deal to avert a looming budget crisis. He said Congress must act against the so-called fiscal cliff, a package of tax rises and spending cuts due early next year.

• Friday, November 2nd 2012 - 08:22 UTC

  The United States elections, as seen from India

  

  By Rengaraj Viswanathan - In India, people are amused and puzzled, depressed and disinterested and occasionally inspired by the long and loud, colourful and typical American show that goes by the name of the presidential election.

• Friday, November 2nd 2012 - 00:02 UTC

  Republican New York Mayor endorses Obama for his record on climate change

  

  New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term, citing the importance of his record on climate change, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating blow dealt to the New York area by storm Sandy.

• Thursday, October 25th 2012 - 06:47 UTC

  ARA Libertad-Romney family link makes Cristina criticize the Republican candidate

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández joined the US presidential campaign harshly criticizing Republican candidate Mitt Romney and stating she is “more alike” the current head of state, Democrat Barack Obama, who is running for re-election.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2012 - 21:04 UTC

  First time in US presidential race history that no candidates are WASP

  

  Argentine political analyst and historian Rosendo Fraga writes about the US presidential elections and their global impact, plus underlining some interesting facts about the country’s population and religion trends and their impacts.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 18:46 UTC

  WTO upholds ruling favouring the US in steel products dispute with China

  

  The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has upheld its decision that China's tariffs on imports of certain US steel products were illegal. Beijing had imposed duties on a particular kind of US steel, alleging that its makers were being given subsidies by the US government.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 00:32 UTC

  Polls show Obama performed better than Romney, but on the economy it was not that clear

  

  US voters say that President Barack Obama performed better than Republican rival Mitt Romney by a substantial margin in their second debate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

• Thursday, October 4th 2012 - 07:34 UTC

  Obama and Romney clash on taxes, deficit and health care

  

  President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney have clashed over their economic plans in the first of three televised debates. In their Denver duel, the candidates contrasted their approach on taxes, the deficit and healthcare.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2012 - 05:54 UTC

  Bernanke says stimulus plan directed to create jobs; discards threats of inflation

  

  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a broad defence on Monday of the central bank's controversial bond-buying stimulus plan, saying its actions are necessary to support a flagging economic recovery.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  US presidential campaign reaches WTO with new case against China

  

  The United States launched on Monday a new trade case against Chinese auto and auto-parts subsidies as President Barack Obama stumped for votes in Ohio, an auto manufacturing state that could be decisive in the November presidential election.