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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and British Prime Minister David Cameron laugh as Vice President Joe Biden gives a toast at the State Department on Wednesday. Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images.Updated 2:30 p.m. ET:Vice President Biden hit the 2012 campaign trail in earnest Thursday, defending the administration rescue of U.S. auto companies while criticizing Mitt Romney and the other GOP presidential candidates for their opposition to the steps taken by the a stanley cup dministration.Gov. Romney predictions of a living dead We have now living proof: a million jobs saved, 200,000 new jobs created, Biden told the crowd at a United Auto Workers hall in Toledo, Ohio.Biden touted the presi stanley cup dent willingness to take tough, even unpopular decisions for the benefit of the country. The president didn ;t flinch. This is a man with steel in his spine. Biden said.The vice president also played up the issue of fairness, a theme the president has struck upon in recent speeches in Osawatomie, Kan., last December and in his State of the Union address earlier this year.If you give any one stanley cup of these guys the keys to the White House, they will bankrupt the middle class, Biden said. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have a fundamentally different vision, he added.Biden has been attending fundraisers across the country, but Thursday remarks mark a shift to a more public effort to support the Obama tea Zkis The Web s biggest illegal drug marketplace is shut down by the FBI
Christine Lagarde was nominated Wednesday to head the IMF. Photo by Dominique Charriau/Getty Images.So the synchronized French swim champ with accent-free English whom we interviewed last summer in Paris, Christine Lagarde, will run the IMF. What did we learn from that interview That she was a key architect of the European bail-out plan last year, a plan now in the process yeezy of re-implementation. Back in July, I asked her, How serious is the threat to the world economy right now Spain, Greece, Eastern Europe, Portugal, all tremendously weak.Her response: I ;m always cautious, and I ;m always very attentive to the unknown risk, because I strongly believe that the risk is going to come from somewhere unexpected.Paul Solman: How bad is the threat now Christine Lagarde: What we have done for Europe at large I adidas samba og think is a very massive plan, totally unexpected, totally counter-treaty, because it wasn ;t scheduled in the treaty that we should do a bailout program, as we did.Paul Solman: This is this May 9 bailout that you did. I think you said at one point this was the most expensive stanley cup night in the history of the world.Christine Lagarde: That right, that right, because we had essentially a trillion dollars on the table to confront any market attack that would target any country, whether it Greece, Spain, Portugal, or anybody within the Eurozone.The above exchange prompted the most relevant question as she becomes only th |
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