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Los Angeles Times Obama Sends $3.8 Trillion Election-Year Budget to Congress San Francisco Chronicle (Updates with Obama remarks third, fourth paragraphs. For further information on the budget, see BUDG.) Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion budget plan today with stimulus spending and tax increases for the ... Obama unveils $3.8 trillion budget CNN Tax and build The Economist (blog) Analysis: Obama sets up clash with GOP in budget Seattle Post...Read Full Story

Ana Marie Cox: Like the GOP's Ryan plan, Obama's budget is about electoral positioning not real economic policy, but he looks better-placed. By Alister Bull and Laura MacInnis | WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called on Monday for new spending to boost growth and higher taxes on the rich, laying out an election-year vision for America in a budget that drew heavy fire from Play Video Play Video Enlarge image BUDGET OBAMA BUDGET OBAMA Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg President Barack...Read Full Story

President Obama's fiscal year 2013 budget envisions the economy healing steadily after years of hemorrhaging and stagnation — and key government services surviving mostly despite the violence done to the federal ledger And debt held by the public is projected to keep rising under his budget, reaching $19.5 trillion by 2022. Meanwhile, Obama's budget wouldn't slash annual budget deficits, but it would reduce them to levels seen as less threatening – but still high. Copies of President...Read Full Story

Telegraph.co.uk GLOBAL MARKETS: European Stocks Down On Greece, Portugal Woes Wall Street Journal By Andrea Tryphonides & Ishaq Siddiqi Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--European stock markets fell Friday after euro-zone chiefs withheld approval for a second Greek bailout and demanded fresh proof from Greece's political leaders that they ... European stocks, euro falter as Greece waits on bailout Economic Times European Shares Slide as Greek Deal Hits a Snag Fox Business EURO GOVT...Read Full Story

Wall Street Journal Obama Retreats on Contraception Wall Street Journal By LOUISE RADNOFSKY, LAURA MECKLER and CAROL E. LEE Some Catholics expressed relief but others were unmoved after President Barack Obama on Friday loosened a requirement that religious employers cover contraception in health plans, an issue that had ... Reaction to Obama's birth control compromise San Francisco Chronicle Insurers stuck with cost of Obama birth-control plan Reuters Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth...Read Full Story