Jim Kuhnhenn

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FILE - In the Sept. 14, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama speaks about the financial crisis on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York. After weeks of intense focus on the crisis in Syria, the White House is set to use the five-year anniversary of the Lehman Bros. Sept. 15, 2008, bankruptcy filing next week to lay claim to an economic turnaround and to press congressional Republicans to not use the threat of a shutdown or a unprecedented debt default to extract a delay of President Barack Obama's signature health care. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama: Budget tightening could widen income gap

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 16, 2013 12:00 am

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2008 file photo, Lehman Brothers world headquarters is shown in New York, the day the 158-year-old investment bank, choked by the credit crisis and falling real estate values, filed for bankruptcy. After weeks of intense focus on the crisis in Syria, the White House is set to use the five-year anniversary of the Lehman Bros. collapse next week to lay claim to an economic turnaround and to press congressional Republicans to not use the threat of a shutdown or a unprecedented debt default to extract a delay of President Barack Obama's signature health care. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

Obama to use Lehman anniversary to cite progress

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 14, 2013 4:29 pm

Obama economic adviser leaving, successor picked

Obama economic adviser leaving, successor picked

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 13, 2013 2:25 pm

FILE - In this Monday, June 3, 2013, file photo, Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, answers a question from a participant at the International Monetary Conference in Shanghai, China. More than 350 economists have a signed a letter to President Barack Obama calling on him to nominate Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen to be the central bank's next chairman. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File )

More than 350 economists back Yellen for Fed chair

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 11, 2013 6:32 pm

President Barack Obama addresses the nation in a live televised speech from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. President Obama blended the threat of military action with the hope of a diplomatic solution as he works to strip Syria of its chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Obama buys time, makes his Syria pitch

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 11, 2013 6:23 pm

Obama to meet with Democrats before Syria speech

Obama to meet with Democrats before Syria speech

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 8, 2013 11:48 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2013 file photo President Barack Obama speaks at a G-20 Summit press conference in St. Petersburg, Russia. The coming weeks will test Obama's powers of persuasion and his mobilizing skills more than at any other time in his presidency and could determine whether he leads the nation from a position of strength, or whether he becomes a lame duck one year into his second term. His challenge: convince wary lawmakers to give him authority to take military action against Syria, confront Congress in debate over spending and the borrowing limit, and oversee a crucial step in the implementation of his signature health care law. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Issues test Obama’s persuasion, mobilizing skills

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 8, 2013 2:02 pm

In this photo provided by CBS News, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., talks about the U.S. response to Syria on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. McCain said he and others on Capitol Hill would want to see a plan and a strategy, that will achieve some goals that the country needs achieved. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)

Obama tries persuading the skeptical on Syria

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 2, 2013 10:45 pm

Difference aside, Iraq war haunts Obama on Syria

Associated Press, Jim Kuhnhenn · August 31, 2013 7:14 pm

This photo combo shows Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, left, and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. Summers is the White House insider with a direct line to President Barack Obama. Yellen is the Federal Reserve veteran with a long list of congressional patrons. The two Ivy League trained economists have emerged as leading contenders to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Fed, the nationâs central bank. Obama could announce his nominee in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, J. Scott Applewhite)

Weighing Yellen vs. Summers for Federal Reserve

Jim Kuhnhenn · August 30, 2013 7:41 am

GOP senator: ‘No common ground’ in budget talks

GOP senator: ‘No common ground’ in budget talks

Jim Kuhnhenn · August 29, 2013 9:12 pm

Obama to address AFL-CIO convention next month

Obama to address AFL-CIO convention next month

Jim Kuhnhenn · August 29, 2013 3:19 pm