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The President hosted the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy this past Friday and Saturday at the National Building Museum here in Washington, DC. This is the first of a two-part note.  Part one will describe the mechanics of the Summit and show some photos.  Part two will describe the substance. The action [...]

President Bush spoke at the Manhattan Institute today on financial markets and the world economy. This speech is a prelude to the financial summit the President will host this weekend.  I’ll write separately about the Summit, and about the elements of today’s speech that talk about principles for reform. I want to draw your attention [...]

The President delivers his State of the Union address this evening, beginning just after 9 PM.  We typically release “fact sheets” along with the address. Since the big document is 36 pages long, we also have versions of the different component fact sheets on whitehouse.gov.  Here are the economic ones: Economy Budget Free trade Energy [...]

Here is the 38-page “Summit Declaration” from the G8 summit, released earlier today.  The summit and the document cover many important economic topics.  I’m going to focus on the climate change section, which is receiving a lot of press coverage. We are very pleased.  Let me start with some quotes from the President while he [...]

The President left this morning for a nine-day trip to Europe. Q:         Where is he going? A:         (1) Prague, Czech Republic.  (2) Heiligendamm, Germany, for the G-8 meetings.  (3) Jurata and Gdansk, Poland.  (4) Rome and the Vatican.  (5) Tirana, Albania.  (6)  Sofia, Bulgaria. The G-8 meetings are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  There will actually [...]

The President spoke today to the U.S. Global Leadership Council about America’s international development agenda.  You can find his remarks here.  His wide-ranging speech covered trade, debt relief, education, AIDS, and malaria.  There was a lot to highlight, but I’m going to focus first on his new climate change proposal. Here’s the key quote: In [...]