UPCOMING LIVE WEB CHAT

Reuters/Jim Young - The U.S. Capitol is seen at sunrise in Washington.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Washington, DC
With a dramatic Christmas Eve vote, the U.S. Senate added health care reform to the list of issues addressed by Congress this year. But with partisanship running high and tough compromises still to be hammered out, is the legislative branch capable of solving the problems that voters care about? Expert Tom Mann joins Politico’s Fred Barbash in a live web chat on December 30.
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U.S. Congress, U.S. Politics
Legal Architecture For The War On Terror

Reuters/Kevin Lamarque - U.S. Attorney General Holder testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith, December 22, 2009
The task of creating American detention policy has moved from the executive branch to federal judges. These judges inherited the responsibility because Congress and the current administration have not offered a clear definition of who can be detained, a coherent set of rules to determine who is an enemy, or guidance on disclosing evidence to detainees' lawyers write Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith.
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Legal Architecture for the War on Terror, Justice and Law, Judges, U.S. Judiciary, U.S. Congress
Up Front Blog

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Karen Dynan, December 22, 2009
Last week, the Federal Reserve released new figures for its household debt service ratio. The debt service ratio declined to 12.8 percent in the third quarter of 2009 showing more households are paying off debts. Karen Dynan examines what this means for the U.S. economy, and whether the debt service ratio is a good indicator of future economic health.
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Saving, U.S. Economy, Financial Institutions, Federal Reserve System
Spotlight: Asian Economy

Reuters/Issei Kato - Women look up at electronic board displaying graph of the movement of exchange rates in Tokyo.
Eswar Prasad, December 22, 2009
Asian economies are seeing strong, stable growth and leading the world out of the recession. In the December 2009 issue of the IMF's Finance & Development, Eswar Prasad discusses how Asian emerging markets can improve their economic welfare by rebalancing growth toward domestic demand.
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Global Economics, Asia, Global Financial Crisis, Financial Markets