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• Paulson Says China Must ‘Reboot’ It’s Staggering Economy

  19-04-2015 11:15
  
  President Obama left little doubt last week that he views China as a serious threat to U.S. economic dominance overseas. “The fastest growing markets, the most populous markets are going to be in Asia,” Obama said during a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House Friday. A day earlier, Republican and Democratic congressional leaders tentatively agreed to give Obama “fast-track” authority to negotiate a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade an
  
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• Republican hopefuls target middle-class insecurity as economy improves

  19-04-2015 07:06
  
  By James Oliphant and Andy Sullivan NASHUA (Reuters) - Facing a recovering economy and a tumbling jobless rate, Republican presidential candidates honing their economic message are trying tap into a lingering sense of insecurity among Americans seven years after the global financial crisis. Then, Republican nominee Romney had the luxury of being able to hammer President Barack Obama with an unemployment rate of more than 8 percent. Now, with the jobless rate at 5.5 percent, the 18 Republican Whi
  
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• Reagan still Republicans' reference point for White House seekers

  19-04-2015 03:34
  
  Barack Obama is weak and Ronald Reagan exuded power, Republicans say. Reagan is the most admired Republican leader of the post-Second World War period. According to pollster Gallup, 61 percent of respondents in 2013 rated him as outstanding or above average, behind only Democrat John F. Kennedy who received 74 percent. "Ronald Reagan was... arguably one of the best presidents for foreign policy," opined Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker who is exploring a White House run.
  
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• Here's one White House hopeful who wants to get big money out of politics

  19-04-2015 01:39
  
  By Andy Sullivan NASHUA, N.H. (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has an unusual message for a potential Republican presidential candidate: He wants to stem the flow of unregulated money in politics. Graham agrees with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Democrats that a 2010 Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for unlimited spending has given too much power to wealthy donors. "We've got to figure out a way to fix this mess, because basically 50 people are r
  
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• Paul, Graham clash on foreign-policy on U.S. campaign trail

  19-04-2015 01:13
  
  By Andy Sullivan NASHUA, N.H. (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham took their debate over America's role in the world from the U.S. Senate floor to the campaign trail on Saturday in an early sign that foreign policy is likely to be a flash point in the 2016 election. At a gathering of 18 potential and actual White House contenders, Paul accused fellow Republicans of being too willing to commit U.S. troops to foreign conflicts without a clear idea of how
  
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