Monday, December 31, 2012

Can Wall St. mend its rift with President Obama? | Essentials

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Can Wall St. mend its rift with President Obama?

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(Moneywatch) Mitt Romney wasn't the only loser in the presidential election. Wall Street's banks and investment firms raised a lot of money for the Republican nominee to no avail. Will they try to mend fences with President Obama and a Democrat-controlled Senate which will soon include Elizabeth Warren, nemesis of big banks? Almost as soon as the election was declared for Mr. Obama, The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association -- which has lobbied and sued to overturn the Dodd-Frank bill -- came out with an oddly conciliatory statement: "We look forward to continuing to work with President Obama and a new Congress on a host of important and immediate issues.

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President Obama

Overall Sentiment: 0.254135

Relevance: 0.722605

Elizabeth Warren

Overall Sentiment: -0.2802

Relevance: 0.674715

Gov. Romney

Overall Sentiment: 0.144176

Relevance: 0.488704

Josh Brown

Overall Sentiment: -0.313042

Relevance: 0.403406

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0.0841379"I don't think it changes very much because the ground game for Wall Street has been and will continue to be dismantling Dodd-Frank piece by piece through the judicial process," says Josh Brown, ...
0.0569237"I don't think it changes very much because the ground game for Wall Street has been and will continue to be dismantling Dodd-Frank piece by piece through the judicial process," says Josh Brown, an advisor at Fusion Analytics and author of the book "Backstage Wall Street."
-0.478701"She's really the worst nightmare for Wall Street," says Brown.
-0.0754512"She's really the worst nightmare for Wall Street," says Brown. "Her ideas about consumer protection and regulation go far beyond anything coming out of the White House."
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  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.4130906
  • Mean: -0.10327265
  • Standard Deviation: 0

senator Warren

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Relevance: 0.372584

CEO Jamie Dimon

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.348298

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Paul Kedrosky

Overall Sentiment: -0.163308

Relevance: 0.312562

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0.0400542"It did less damage than did the crisis of 2007/08, but it did do some damage," says Paul Kedrosky, ...
-0.0633776"It did less damage than did the crisis of 2007/08, but it did do some damage," says Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist who writes the respected blog  Infectious Greed. "Wall Street hoped it could squirm out from under Dodd-Frank and related regulations under a Romney administration, so they acted in a transparently self-serving way that will limit its flexibility in any future conversations."
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  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0233234
  • Mean: -0.0116617
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

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Relevance: 0.320434

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Relevance: 0.361888

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Relevance: 0.317564

Organization: Center for Responsive Politics

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Relevance: 0.313319

Organization: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Overall Sentiment: 0.0540294

Relevance: 0.306298

Company: JPMorgan

Overall Sentiment: 0

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Mass. arm wrestler convicted in wife's death | Reduction

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Mass. arm wrestler convicted in wife's death

Tea Party rally: sign about how Obama lies will kill grandmothers
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WORCESTER, Mass. –  A champion arm wrestler from Massachusetts has been convicted in the death of his wife, who jumped out of a window to escape him. Forty-one-year-old Allen Stilkey of Worcester (WUS'-tur) was convicted Monday of manslaughter. His wife, Lisa, jumped from a second-floor window of their home in February during what authorities said was a violent argument. Prosecutors say Stilkey threatened to kill his wife first. They say he had recently taken out a $250,000 life insurance policy on her. Stilkey's lawyer maintains his client was not responsible for his wife's death. The Telegram & Gazette (http://bit. ly/VMRgh1) reports that both sides agree that the couple were having marital and financial problems, and the fight began after they had been drinking heavily. Stilkey, who took first place in his weight class at the American Armsport Association's 2010 national championships, faces sentencing Friday.

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Allen Stilkey

Overall Sentiment: -0.406537

Relevance: 0.938951

Lisa

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Relevance: 0.475762

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Overall Sentiment: -0.160835

Relevance: 0.439645

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Conn. Senator Introduces Ban On Assault Weapons | Synopsis

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Conn. Senator Introduces Ban On Assault Weapons

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Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. David Greene talks with Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut about the prospects for gun-control legislation in the next Congress. Blumenthal has spent the last several days in Newtown, where more than 20 people were killed in a school massacre.

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Senator Richard Blumenthal

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.942739

David Greene

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.450016

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Organization: Congress

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.322583

City: Newtown

Overall Sentiment: -0.376891

Relevance: 0.366617

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.320021

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Democrats Face Shallow Bench for Hispanic Leaders | Reduction

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Democrats Face Shallow Bench for Hispanic Leaders

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"If we want people to like us, we have to like them first. And you don't start to like people by insulting them and saying their votes were bought." -- Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, on "FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace. ” As President Obama considers how he will remake his administration for a second term he faces some obvious challenges, particularly on how to find new leaders for the Pentagon, CIA and State Department amid an ongoing investigation of those agencies surrounding the attack by Islamist militants on U.S. outposts in Libya on Sept. 11. Some personnel moves would be a good way for the president show some love to Hispanic voters, but because of his party’s shallow bench it’s hard to imagine where Obama could find any Latinos for a top job in his cabinet.

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Obama

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Relevance: 0.828614

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Hilda Solis

Overall Sentiment: -0.295266

Relevance: 0.298548

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Chris Wallace

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.295341

Bobby Jindal

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Relevance: 0.28684

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Secretary Ken Salazar

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.267687

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Marco Rubio

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.265221

Rep. Xavier Becerra

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.263007

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Chris Stirewalt

Overall Sentiment: -0.0395076

Relevance: 0.261405

Joe Biden

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.260546

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Bob Menendez

Overall Sentiment: 0.17561

Relevance: 0.260396

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Chris Live

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.251813

Ted Cruz

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.245958

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Eva Longoria

Overall Sentiment: 0.76481

Relevance: 0.245011

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Ryan puts softer edge on GOP plans in major economic speech | Synopsis

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Ryan puts softer edge on GOP plans in major economic speech

We need to get this to the Fiscal Cliff! What could go wrong?
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CLEVELAND, OH -- Appearing in an economically hard-hit corner of the crucial battleground state of Ohio, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan attempted to put a softer edge on the GOP ticket’s plans to reform social programs. In one of his only major policy speeches of the campaign, the Wisconsin congressman sought to widen the GOP ticket's appeal beyond Republicans and to Independents and Democrats -- just as President Barack Obama's campaign warns that GOP nominee Mitt Romney's proposals would wreck the social safety net and stunt upward mobility. “Upward mobility is the central promise of life in America. But right now, America’s engines of upward mobility aren’t working the way they should,” Ryan told the crowd at Cleveland State University.

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Mitt Romney

Overall Sentiment: -0.100632

Relevance: 0.852753

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Paul Ryan

Overall Sentiment: 0.0349244

Relevance: 0.536194

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0.0830336“Upward mobility is the central promise of life in America. But right now, America’s engines of upward mobility aren’t working the way they should,” Ryan told ...
-0.0682064“Upward mobility is the central promise of life in America. But right now, America’s engines of upward mobility aren’t working the way they should,” Ryan told the crowd at Cleveland State University. “Mitt Romney and I are running because we believe that Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0148272
  • Mean: 0.0074136
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Barack Obama

Overall Sentiment: -0.0798649

Relevance: 0.454205

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City: CLEVELAND

Overall Sentiment: -0.183878

Relevance: 0.528066

Continent: America

Overall Sentiment: 0.400415

Relevance: 0.508153

StateOrCounty: Wisconsin

Overall Sentiment: 0.0670834

Relevance: 0.358172

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StateOrCounty: Ohio

Overall Sentiment: -0.409074

Relevance: 0.351808

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Photo of the Day: Caption Contest | Reduction

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Photo of the Day: Caption Contest

Minnesota rally in solidarity with Wisconsin union protesters
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Today, just days away from Election Day, Mitt Romney uses his iPhone to snap a pic of staff members sleeping aboard his campaign plane en route to Milwaukee, in the battleground state of Wisconsin. Leave your best photo caption here.

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Mitt Romney

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Relevance: 0.91906

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Technology: iPhone

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.458697

StateOrCounty: Wisconsin

Overall Sentiment: -0.489698

Relevance: 0.372215

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Voters sharply divided along gender, race lines | Essentials

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Voters sharply divided along gender, race lines

During his Inaugural Oath of Office in President Barack Obama's pocket was a khata blessed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, presented to Obama by Richard Blum just before he stepped onto the platform
During his Inaugural Oath of Office in President Barack Obama's pocket was a khata blessed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, presented to Obama by Richard Blum just before he stepped onto the platform by Wonderlane
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Updated 12:08am ET Most voters weren’t happy with direction the county is heading, but despite that, President Barack Obama will defeat Republican challenger Mitt Romney, NBC News projects. Exit poll interviews with voters on Tuesday point to three big reasons for Obama’s victory: First, despite a slim majority of voters thinking the country is on the wrong track, 54 percent approve of the way Obama is doing his job and the electorate was almost exactly split on whether Obama or Romney would be better at handling the economy. Among the four voters in 10 who said they think economic conditions in the country  are getting better, a huge majority, nearly nine out of ten, said they voted for Obama. And finally, a slight majority of voters voiced an unfavorable view of Romney personally, while a slight majority had a favorable view of Obama.

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President Barack Obama

Overall Sentiment: 0.282221

Relevance: 0.930918

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-0.340186Obama was “more to blame for the current economic conditions,”
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  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.340186
  • Mean: -0.340186
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
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Mitt Romney

Overall Sentiment: 0.205983

Relevance: 0.439892

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Sen. John McCain

Overall Sentiment: 0.284902

Relevance: 0.162231

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King

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.103192

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George W. Bush

Overall Sentiment: -0.216331

Relevance: 0.098475

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Brown

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.0920608

Warren

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.0882255

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