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http://news.yahoo.com/business/ Get the latest Business news headlines from Yahoo! News. Find breaking business news, including analysis and opinion on top business stories.en-USCopyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reservedThu, 16 Aug 2012 17:12:35 -04005http://news.yahoo.com/business/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gifWARREN, Ohio--I spent my birthday doing my job: traveling with Paul Ryan, who has been on a campaign swing through battleground states since Mitt Romney announced him as his running mate last weekend. Ryan stopped at a hot dog shop for lunch on Thursday, after a campaign rally in North Canton, Ohio. Unbeknownst to me, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/birthday-paul-ryan-gave-chili-dog-gave-him-211235837.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 17:12:35 -0400blogs/ticket/birthday-paul-ryan-gave-chili-dog-gave-him-211235837Mitt Romney's wife is pushing back on public pressure for her husband to release additional years of personal tax filings. In an interview set to air Thursday on NBC's "Rock Center," Ann Romney reiterated that her husband won't release more financial records, insisting it would just provide more fodder for Democratic attacks. "There's nothing we're [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ann-romney-tax-returns-nothing-hiding-154632291.htmlThu, 16 Aug 2012 11:46:32 -0400blogs/ticket/ann-romney-tax-returns-nothing-hiding-154632291President Barack Obama, breaking his public silence Wednesday on Vice President Joe Biden's claim that a Mitt Romney victory will "put y'all back in chains," dismissed the controversy over the comment and expressed full confidence in Biden. In interviews with People magazine and "Entertainment Tonight," Obama sought to put Biden's remark, which drew angry denunciations [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-defends-biden-over-chains-remark-231846165.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 19:18:46 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-defends-biden-over-chains-remark-231846165DAYTON, Ohio?Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is expected to discuss the brewing debate over his plan to overhaul the nation's Medicare system on Wednesday at a rally in Oxford, Ohio, a campaign aide said. Ryan's public remarks during his first days on the campaign trail as Mitt Romney's running mate have focused mostly on [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-expected-address-medicare-ohio-rally-201940672.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 16:19:40 -0400blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-expected-address-medicare-ohio-rally-201940672Just 10 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday, tying the lowest mark in the 38 years the poll has been conducted. That number was previously reached this past February, but bounced back a bit in subsequent months. Eighty-three percent of Americans disapprove of Congress, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/approval-congress-falls-time-low-082653179.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2012 04:26:53 -0400blogs/ticket/approval-congress-falls-time-low-082653179For Seamus? President Barack Obama unleashed a sharp attack on Mitt Romney over his opposition to a wind-power tax credit popular in Iowa?and linked to it a long-ago incident in which the Republican candidate put his family dog, Seamus, in a carrier strapped to the roof of his car. "We're at a moment right now [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-jabs-romney-over-dog-car-roof-incident-182213036.htmlTue, 14 Aug 2012 14:22:13 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-jabs-romney-over-dog-car-roof-incident-182213036DENVER?The rigors of the campaign trail have not kept Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan from his intense workout regimen, a daily tradition he observes religiously in the wee hours of the morning. Ryan was spotted Tuesday in the gym of the Renaissance Denver Hotel?working out to a P90X video on his iPad. "I'm going [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-takes-p90x-workout-campaign-trail-163745913.htmlTue, 14 Aug 2012 12:37:45 -0400blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-takes-p90x-workout-campaign-trail-163745913New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Convention later this month in Tampa. Christie told USA TODAY in an interview posted on the newspaper's website early Tuesday morning that his speech will focus more on making the case for electing Mitt Romney than on bashing [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/chris-christie-deliver-gop-convention-keynote-045319800.htmlTue, 14 Aug 2012 00:53:19 -0400blogs/ticket/chris-christie-deliver-gop-convention-keynote-045319800A video of former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles began circulating in conservative news outlets today. In the clip, the Democratic co-chair of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform gives high praises to Paul Ryan's budget plan. "I'm telling you, this guy is amazing. I always thought I was [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/erskine-bowles-praises-paul-ryan-budget-plan-video-003642883.htmlMon, 13 Aug 2012 20:36:42 -0400blogs/ticket/erskine-bowles-praises-paul-ryan-budget-plan-video-003642883President Barack Obama placed a congratulatory telephone call to the NASA team behind the Mars "Curiosity" rover, joking he might go for a Mohawk to emulate flight director Bobak Ferdowsi, and quipping that he needed to be told "right away" if the probe finds any little green men. "If, in fact, you do make contact [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-praises-curiosity-team-says-mohawk-guy-inspired-213915456.htmlMon, 13 Aug 2012 17:39:15 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-praises-curiosity-team-says-mohawk-guy-inspired-213915456President Barack Obama's Iowa state fair to-do list: Check out Butter Cow, see if this chocolate moose thing is real, but stay away from the fried Twinkies and the bumper cars. Obama launched a three-day bus tour through this heartland state--the place that helped propel his unlikely bid for the White House in 2008--with a [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-butter-cow-yes-bumper-cars-no-212101316.htmlMon, 13 Aug 2012 17:21:01 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-butter-cow-yes-bumper-cars-no-212101316DES MOINES, Iowa?Paul Ryan emerged from the Secret Service SUV Monday at the Iowa State Fair in a red checkered shirt, jeans and cowboy boots. After a bro hug with Iowa Rep. Steve King and a hearty handshake to Sen. Chuck Grassley, the newly minted vice presidential candidate began a long march to the famous [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/own-paul-ryan-first-solo-day-campaign-trail-202324072.htmlMon, 13 Aug 2012 16:23:24 -0400blogs/ticket/own-paul-ryan-first-solo-day-campaign-trail-202324072Janna Little Ryan found herself in the spotlight this weekend as she made her campaign trail debut with her husband, newly tapped Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. The 43-year-old mother of three showed up at campaign events in North Carolina sporting a thrifty $70 floral dress by Dana Buchman (on sale [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/janna-ryan-sports-thrifty-kohl-dress-campaign-trail-153106314.htmlMon, 13 Aug 2012 11:31:06 -0400blogs/ticket/janna-ryan-sports-thrifty-kohl-dress-campaign-trail-153106314WAUKESHA, Wis.?Rep. Paul Ryan wiped away tears as he made his first appearance as Mitt Romney's running mate in his home state, telling a crowd of 10,000 people here that the upcoming election is a "special moment" not just for him, but for the country. Arriving here at an early evening rally, Romney and Ryan [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ryan-tears-wisconsin-rally-veins-bleed-cheese-004528853.htmlSun, 12 Aug 2012 20:45:28 -0400blogs/ticket/ryan-tears-wisconsin-rally-veins-bleed-cheese-004528853In his first public remarks about Paul Ryan's pick to be the presumptive Republican vice presidential candidate, President Barack Obama called the lawmaker "a decent man" but painted him as a champion of "top down" economic policies that favor the rich. "Just yesterday morning, my opponent chose his running mate, the ideological leader of the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-ryan-congressional-republicans-ideological-leader-232106026.htmlSun, 12 Aug 2012 19:21:06 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-ryan-congressional-republicans-ideological-leader-232106026Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan sat down with "Face the Nation" anchor Bob Schieffer in High Point, N.C., on Sunday?their first joint interview since Romney announced Ryan as his running mate. In the interview, which aired Sunday on "60 Minutes," Romney addressed a Miami Herald headline that suggested Ryan's budget proposal?which would transform Medicare into [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ryan-romney-60-minutes-interview-215906440.htmlSun, 12 Aug 2012 17:59:06 -0400blogs/ticket/ryan-romney-60-minutes-interview-215906440CHARLOTTE--Just hours before word broke that Mitt Romney would name his vice-presidential running mate on Saturday, Paul Ryan waved to reporters camped outside his home in Janesville, Wis., as he headed inside for the evening?or so the media thought. Just minutes later, the Wisconsin congressman quickly sneaked out his back door, escaping into a forest [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-picked-ryan-vp-kept-secret-040330489.htmlSun, 12 Aug 2012 00:03:30 -0400blogs/ticket/romney-picked-ryan-vp-kept-secret-040330489ON A ROMNEY PRESS BUS SOMEWHERE IN VIRGINIA--Mitt Romney will take a detour from his four-day bus tour of key battleground states to appear at a Sunday night rally with his vice-presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, in the congressman's home state of Wisconsin. A Romney aide who declined to be named confirmed Romney and Ryan [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-ryan-campaign-wisconsin-sunday-192328186.htmlSat, 11 Aug 2012 15:23:28 -0400blogs/ticket/romney-ryan-campaign-wisconsin-sunday-192328186ASHLAND, Va.?Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan made their second appearance together as the GOP ticket, stopping at a local pie store here ahead of a campaign rally nearby. Hundreds of supporters had gathered outside Homemades by Suzanne, where Romney and Ryan stopped in to buy pie and do a little retail politicking. As the two [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-ryan-appeals-better-angels-america-182049208.htmlSat, 11 Aug 2012 14:20:49 -0400blogs/ticket/romney-ryan-appeals-better-angels-america-182049208NORFOLK, Va.?Against the flag-draped backdrop of the USS Wisconsin, Mitt Romney formally introduced Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman from Wisconsin, as his vice presidential running mate on Saturday. Ryan's budget-cutting ideas have the potential to transform the presidential race. Support for his proposed mix of spending cuts and tax cuts has become a [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/live-video-mitt-romney-announces-vp-pick-123251121.htmlSat, 11 Aug 2012 08:32:51 -0400blogs/ticket/live-video-mitt-romney-announces-vp-pick-123251121From the moment Mitt Romney endorsed and embraced the House Republican budget, authored by his newly announced running mate Paul Ryan, Democrats pounced, ensuring it would be known forevermore as the "Romney-Ryan" budget. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee clearly doesn't seem to mind. As with all of the big moments in a presidential campaign, context matters [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-help-mitt-romney-change-conversation-081857178.htmlSat, 11 Aug 2012 04:18:57 -0400blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-help-mitt-romney-change-conversation-081857178Gov. Mitt Romney announced on Saturday morning that he has chosen 42-year-old Paul Ryan to be his running mate. Since 2008, the well-spoken Republican Congressman from Janesville, Wisconsin has emerged as a leading figure on the right and a champion of reduced government spending. Ryan has earned the admiration of conservatives for the tough, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-063300661.htmlSat, 11 Aug 2012 02:33:00 -0400blogs/ticket/paul-ryan-063300661NORFOLK, Va.--Mitt Romney announced Saturday he's selected Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate. The announcement came just after 7am ET via Mitt's VP, a mobile application launched by the campaign earlier this month. According to a statement the campaign released late Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee will appear with his [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-announce-vp-pick-saturday-032140054.htmlFri, 10 Aug 2012 23:21:40 -0400blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-announce-vp-pick-saturday-032140054President Barack Obama forcefully defended trusted Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin on Friday, praising her as "an American patriot" in the face of charges from Republicans like Representative Michele Bachmann that she is secretly tied to Muslim extremists. Speaking at a White House Iftar dinner to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-defends-american-patriot-huma-abedin-amid-republican-022358433.htmlFri, 10 Aug 2012 22:23:58 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-defends-american-patriot-huma-abedin-amid-republican-022358433White House spokesman Jay Carney declined Friday to repudiate an independent ad that ties Mitt Romney to the cancer death of a laid-off steelworker's wife, as the controversy over that misleading commercial dragged into another day. "We do not control third-party ads," Carney told reporters at his daily briefing. He had been asked whether President [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-spokesman-declines-repudiate-cancer-ad-215105038.htmlFri, 10 Aug 2012 17:51:05 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-spokesman-declines-repudiate-cancer-ad-215105038President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain locked in a tight race in the key swing states of Colorado, Wisconsin, and Virginia, according to a Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll released early Wednesday. Obama leads by 49-45 percent in Virginia and 51-45 percent in Wisconsin, while Romney has a 50-45 percent advantage in [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/poll-race-white-house-remains-tight-3-key-085301291.htmlWed, 08 Aug 2012 04:53:01 -0400blogs/ticket/poll-race-white-house-remains-tight-3-key-085301291DES MOINES?Former President Bill Clinton is pushing back against Mitt Romney's claim that President Barack Obama is trying to reverse bipartisan welfare reforms he signed into law in 1996. In a television ad released Tuesday and later at an event outside Chicago, Romney criticized a recent Department of Human Services directive that relaxed federal work [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bill-clinton-calls-romney-welfare-claims-not-true-033013524.htmlTue, 07 Aug 2012 23:30:13 -0400blogs/ticket/bill-clinton-calls-romney-welfare-claims-not-true-033013524Rep. Todd Akin emerged victorious Tuesday from the highly competitive Republican Senate primary in Missouri, easily defeating his top competitors, wealthy businessman John Brunner and former state treasurer Sarah Steelman. He will now head into a general election race against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, who has been marked as a top takeover target by Republicans. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rep-akin-wins-republican-nomination-sen-mccaskill-missouri-031237109.htmlTue, 07 Aug 2012 23:12:37 -0400blogs/ticket/rep-akin-wins-republican-nomination-sen-mccaskill-missouri-031237109President Barack Obama's re-election campaign warned supporters in an email plea for cash on Monday that Mitt Romney's vast fundraising edge means "we're in trouble" with scarcely three months to go before Election Day. "We got beat three months in a row," the campaign said in the unsigned message. "If we don't step it up, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-campaign-romney-fundraising-edge-means-trouble-011851533.htmlMon, 06 Aug 2012 21:18:51 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-campaign-romney-fundraising-edge-means-trouble-011851533Mitt Romney and his staff are accusing President Barack Obama of threatening the ability of military personnel to vote early in Ohio following the administration's decision to sue the state over new early voting laws. The Democratic lawsuit aims to restore early voting rights for all Ohio voters, but Republicans are crying foul. "We disagree [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-obama-campaigns-battle-over-ohio-early-voting-173202620.htmlMon, 06 Aug 2012 13:32:02 -0400blogs/ticket/romney-obama-campaigns-battle-over-ohio-early-voting-173202620Sen. John McCain, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are among the first speakers named for this month's Republican National Convention in Tampa. The list, which was first reported by the Tampa Bay Times and later confirmed by the?Associated Press, also includes four current GOP governors: Florida's Rick Scott, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/first-gop-convention-speakers-announced-041500296.htmlMon, 06 Aug 2012 00:15:00 -0400blogs/ticket/first-gop-convention-speakers-announced-041500296LOS ANGELES?When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gavels the 2012 Democratic National Convention into session in Charlotte, N.C., this September, his role as prominent cheerleader for President Barack Obama will be clear. It is less clear, for now, if Villaraigosa has designs on the ultimate convention role in 2016?taking center stage to accept his party's [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/antonio-villaraigosa-poised-america-first-latino-president-142427177.htmlTue, 31 Jul 2012 10:24:27 -0400blogs/ticket/antonio-villaraigosa-poised-america-first-latino-president-142427177GDANSK, Poland--Lech Walesa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Poland, effectively endorsed Mitt Romney during a meeting with the GOP presidential candidate Monday. Walesa, a co-founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland which challenged Communist rule during the 1980s, urged Romney to "get your success" in the upcoming election. "I wish you [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/lech-walesa-effectively-backs-romney-171407303.htmlMon, 30 Jul 2012 13:14:07 -0400blogs/ticket/lech-walesa-effectively-backs-romney-171407303JERUSALEM?Mitt Romney arrived in Israel Saturday looking to reset an overseas trip that was aimed at proving him to be a capable leader on the world stage. But his overseas debut was undermined almost from the very moment he arrived in London, the first stop of his seven-day tour, when he admitted he found the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-arrives-israel-looking-reset-foreign-trip-200740694.htmlSat, 28 Jul 2012 16:07:40 -0400blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-arrives-israel-looking-reset-foreign-trip-200740694LONDON?On day three of his overseas tour, Mitt Romney woke up to unfriendly headlines from the British media, which continue to trash him for telling NBC News that he found preparations for the Olympics here "disconcerting." "Mitt the Twit," declared The Sun tabloid, condemning Romney as a "wannabe president." The Independent headlined its take on [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/british-media-hammer-romney-olympic-comments-103800909.htmlFri, 27 Jul 2012 06:38:00 -0400blogs/ticket/british-media-hammer-romney-olympic-comments-103800909President Barack Obama is signing a new U.S.-Israel security pact on Friday -- a move that could steal some of the headlines there even as Republican challenger Mitt Romney opens a visit to the close U.S. ally a day later. Obama signs the?United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act -- a bill that clears the way [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-welcomes-romney-israel-security-bill-024555979.htmlThu, 26 Jul 2012 22:45:55 -0400blogs/ticket/obama-welcomes-romney-israel-security-bill-024555979LONDON?For the second day in a row, Mitt Romney's visit to London was marred by controversy, as the British media seized on comments the GOP candidate made suggesting he found London's preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics "disconcerting." In an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, Romney, who has campaigned on his experience running the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-under-fire-comments-london-olympics-160305180.htmlThu, 26 Jul 2012 12:03:05 -0400blogs/ticket/romney-under-fire-comments-london-olympics-160305180With President Barack Obama in the fight of his political life against Republican challenger Mitt Romney, top White House aides are increasingly shuttling to the Democrat's campaign headquarters in Chicago, the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday. Those making the trip from Washington to the Windy City includes senior advisor David Plouffe, who managed Obama's [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-obama-campaign-tighten-ties-wall-street-030825217.htmlWed, 25 Jul 2012 23:08:25 -0400blogs/ticket/white-house-obama-campaign-tighten-ties-wall-street-030825217Democrats and Republicans conducted an exercise in political theater Wednesday by holding Senate votes on their competing tax proposals, even though both appeared destined for failure. The Democratic bill--which would extend tax cuts through 2013 for all individuals except those who jointly earn over $250,000, passed in the Democrat-controlled Senate by a vote of 51 [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/senate-passes-democratic-tax-proposal-bill-destined-failure-212501649.htmlWed, 25 Jul 2012 17:25:01 -0400blogs/ticket/senate-passes-democratic-tax-proposal-bill-destined-failure-212501649As the debate over gun laws rages anew in the wake of last Friday's horrific?shooting in Aurora, Co., advocates for stricter legislation say there's one major question mark in the debate: No one knows exactly how many firearms are sold in America. While the ATF compiles detailed statistics on gun sales, the information is delayed [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/firearm-sales-rise-probably-gun-control-advocates-data-184446035.htmlTue, 24 Jul 2012 14:44:46 -0400blogs/ticket/firearm-sales-rise-probably-gun-control-advocates-data-184446035

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