| Cuomo Targets Fire Back
Voices of defiance have been few and far between as the student loan inquiry rumbled through higher education in recent months. But as the annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Business Officers came to a close Tuesday, a "town hall meeting" on student loans showcased the stories of two institutions that fought New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo — one that ultimately folded, and another that is still fighting, at least rhetorically. .
Excitement for Obama candidacy palpable among many black residents
A win for Obama, the first viable African-American presidential candidate in history, could bode well for him in other states with sizable black populations. In the state that was first to secede from the Union before the Civil War and that still flies the Confederate flag in front of its State House, excitement about Obama among African-American voters was palpable. Cynthia Cook, 58, a retired nurse, was beaming as she left an adult education center in downtown Columbia after casting her vote for Obama. "I lived through the civil rights era, and he is a dream come true," she said. Andre Young, a 36-year-old chef from Columbia, started out a Clinton supporter, but after he saw Obama speak at a massive rally with Oprah Winfrey in December, he changed his mind.
Market Drop, Fed Cut Create Opportunities For Cherry Pickers
Lower interest rates will benefit financial stocks as these companies regain the ability to borrow more cheaply at the short end of the yield curve and lend at higher rates at the long end, he says. Indeed, financial stocks benefited from yesterday's Fed rate cut, with J.P. Morgan Chase, for instance, rising more than 3%. .
Running for the economic empathizer in chief
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- She has been railing about the price of gasoline, wondering how working mothers pay doctors' bills, and generally echoing complaints of everyday folks: How can you afford to put kids through college? What about paying that inflated adjustable-rate home loan? Or holding onto a job in a teetering economy?
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton made her final push Friday across South Carolina in advance of today's Democratic presidential primary, channeling the central imperative of her husband's first run for president: a focus, "like a laser beam," on the economy.
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