<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>James Baker: News &amp; Videos about James Baker - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/James_Baker</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about James Baker from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:00:09 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>James Baker: News &amp; Videos about James Baker - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/POLITICS/06/02/miller.obama.netanyahu/tztop.aaron.miller.reider.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/James_Baker</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about James Baker from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Commentary: Does Obama want to change Israeli government?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/02/miller.obama.netanyahu/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/02/miller.obama.netanyahu/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama has embarked on what could represent a radical departure in America's Mideast policy, at least on settlements.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Some ignore law to prevent pools from being child deathtraps</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/entrapment.pools/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/entrapment.pools/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Children's lives are at risk in swimming pools across the country as government agencies waffle on how to enforce a new federal law, child safety advocates say.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-secretaries of state share advice for next president</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/secretaries.state.forum/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/secretaries.state.forum/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Five former secretaries of state from both parties Monday discussed how they would advise the next president on a wide range of foreign policy, including relations with Russia, Iran and the Middle East.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New War Powers Law Needed</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1821155,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1821155,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan study group chaired by former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>War Powers Act needs fixing, bipartisan panel says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/08/war.powers/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/08/war.powers/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The United States needs a new law requiring that the president consult with Congress before going to war, a blue-ribbon panel led by two former secretaries of state said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New War Powers Legislation Needed
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1820879,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1820879,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher say the next time the president goes to war, Congress should be required to say whether it agrees</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Uncle of dead Vermont girl facing kidnapping charges</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/03/missing.vermont.girl/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/03/missing.vermont.girl/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The uncle of a 12-year-old Vermont girl whose body was found Wednesday was charged with kidnapping, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Missing Vermont Girl Found Dead</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1819968,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1819968,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Police unearthed Brooke Bennett's body from a makeshift grave about a mile from her uncle's house, ending a weeklong search for the subject of Vermont's first Amber Alert</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Search for missing girl leads to charges for stepfather</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/01/missing.vermont.girl/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/01/missing.vermont.girl/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The investigation of a Vermont girl's disappearance has led to charges against her stepfather in a separate case, authorities said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Uncle of missing Vermont girl arrested</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/30/vermont.missing.girl/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/30/vermont.missing.girl/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Investigators in Vermont charged the uncle of a missing 12-year-old girl Sunday with sexually assaulting a minor -- but they said the charge does not involve his niece.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The final days of BP's John Browne</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/16/news/companies/browne_downfall.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/16/news/companies/browne_downfall.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>For a CEO whose PR skills were pitch-perfect for so long, it was a terribly ironic denouement.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Safety panel slams BP over refinery blast</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/16/news/companies/bp/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/16/news/companies/bp/index.htm</guid><description>BP had serious safety problems at its five U.S. refineries before a 2005 explosion at a Texas plant killed 15 workers, an independent panel reviewing that accident said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Roadside bombs kill 4 U.S. soldiers in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/11/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/11/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military said Monday that four American soldiers were killed and three wounded by two roadside bombs Sunday in Baghdad as suspected sectarian violence cost another 51 Iraqis their lives.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq president rejects Baker-Hamilton report</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/10/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/10/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Iraqi President Jalal Talabani rejected the Iraq Study Group's report Sunday, calling it "very dangerous" to Iraq's sovereignty and constitution.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chairmen: Iraq report can't be used piecemeal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/07/isg.senate/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/07/isg.senate/index.html</guid><description>The chairmen of the Iraq Study Group told a Senate panel Thursday that its report on the "deteriorating situation" in Iraq must be viewed as a whole and not piecemeal.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Can Bush find an exit?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/03/coverstory.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/03/coverstory.tm/index.html</guid><description>George Bush has a history of long-overdue U-turns.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Greenfield: Shattered dreams in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/28/greenfield.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/28/greenfield.iraq/index.html</guid><description>President Bush will be in Jordan later this week, where he plans to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Poll: More Americans prefer Bush's father </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/21/bush.poll/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/21/bush.poll/index.html</guid><description>Only one in four Americans believe President Bush is a better president than his father, George H. W. Bush, a new CNN poll has found.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyrrell: From Rummy to Gates</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/16/tyrrell.rumsfeld/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/16/tyrrell.rumsfeld/index.html</guid><description>Modern bureaucracy is the spine of the modern state.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: Time to put elections behind us</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/bush.transcript/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/bush.transcript/index.html</guid><description>President Bush on Wednesday discussed the midterm elections and the news that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was stepping down in a White House news conference. The following is a partial transcript of his remarks:</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Gunmen kill 14 Pakistani, Indian pilgrims in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/02/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/02/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Insurgents shot and killed at least 14 pilgrims from India and Pakistan, one of several attacks in Iraq that have killed a dozen other people during the last 24 hours.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Congress forms panel to study Iraq war</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/15/iraq.study/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/15/iraq.study/index.html</guid><description>Congress unveiled an independent panel on Wednesday assigned to study the U.S.-led war in Iraq and to make policy recommendations for both Capitol Hill and the White House.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nanotech delivers cancer treatment</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/21/cancer.nanotech/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/21/cancer.nanotech/index.html</guid><description>Scientists using nanotechnology have devised a way of delivering cancer drugs that could make them up to 10 times more effective in combating the killer disease.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Dollar In Distress The greenback is falling; deficits are rising. Let's all panic!</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/10/13/350882/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/10/13/350882/index.htm</guid><description>Most of the time our economic worries are of a comprehensible sort: Jobs are scarce, health-care costs are high, retirement funds are meager. Every month or two, though, we are wrested away from th...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>See This Goop? It Kills Anthrax And the tiny biotech             startup that invented it has been thrust into a national       </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/11/12/313292/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/11/12/313292/index.htm</guid><description>Inside the plain little container I'm looking at may just be our best stopgap against bioterror. Dr. James Baker, chief scientist at the Ann Arbor, Mich., biotech firm NanoBio, holds up the bottle ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ARE SUMMITS GOOD FOR ANYTHING? ECONOMISTS AND             POLITICIANS DOUBT THAT COORDINATED POLICIES CAN PROMOTE             WO</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/22/214720/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/22/214720/index.htm</guid><description>Not so long ago the annual economic summit meetings of the world's richest nations (this year's was in late June in Lyon, France) were a very big deal. They were preceded by drum rolls of newspaper...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>RUBIN'S JUST ANOTHER BAD WIZARD TREASURY SECRETARIES             ACT AS IF THEY CAN CONTROL THE DOLLAR'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE       </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/11/27/208028/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/11/27/208028/index.htm</guid><description>Being Treasury Secretary of the U.S. has its rewards. Your signature is printed on the nation's currency, for instance, and you get to work in one of the grandest offices that's ever been built. Be...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 1995 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>AT LAST! COMPUTERS YOU CAN TALK TO Sick of dealing with keyboards and mice? The decades-old dream of directing computers by spok</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/05/03/77797/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/05/03/77797/index.htm</guid><description>WHEN Jean Kovacs comes into the office each day, she dons a little headset and greets her computer with a brisk ''Good morning!'' In response, her Sun workstation lights up its screen. ''Start mail...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 May 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>ARVIN INDUSTRIES A QUICK COURSE IN GOING GLOBAL</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/13/75958/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/13/75958/index.htm</guid><description>WHEN HE STANDS at the blackboard in the renovated schoolhouse that has become his company's headquarters, James K. Baker, the chairman of Arvin Industries, looks like a scholarly small-college pres...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>NOW HEAR THIS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74936/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74936/index.htm</guid><description>-- TIMOTHY LEARY, 70, once an advocate of tuning in, turning on, and dropping out, on his current trip: ''I am exploring for the first time in my life the amazing wonderland known as senility.'' </description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW BUSH MANAGES THE PRESIDENCY He says he's dedicated to problem solving, and he's got a big one in Kuwait. Not to mention the </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/08/27/73948/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/08/27/73948/index.htm</guid><description>NOTHING tests a President like a world crisis. The one Saddam Hussein handed George Bush in early August had just about everything: blatant aggression, horrendous economic ramifications, and no eas...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NOW HEAR THIS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/02/13/71632/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/02/13/71632/index.htm</guid><description>-- BARBARA BUSH, 63, on her role as a fashion trendsetter: ''My mail tells me that a lot of fat, white-haired, wrinkled ladies are tickled pink.'' </description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MASTER HANDLER JAMES BAKER b. APRIL 28, 1930</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71459/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71459/index.htm</guid><description>IF EVER A MAN deserves the title of kingmaker, he is James A. Baker III, the master manager to whom George Bush most owes his status as President-elect. In less than three months, Baker, 58, chairm...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ASSIGNMENT: FIX BUSH'S CAMPAIGN</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/29/70969/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/29/70969/index.htm</guid><description>''Here comes the A team!'' rejoiced a GOP politico over the arrival of James Baker III to head the floundering campaign of Vice President George Bush. The Treasury Secretary and longtime Bush advis...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NOW HEAR THIS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/20/70704/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/20/70704/index.htm</guid><description>-- MARTIN ANDERSON, 51, former White House policy adviser, on how David Stockman would have described baseball great Ted Williams: ''Even at the height of his career, Williams managed to get base h...</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>REGAN, REAGAN, AND REALITY If you think the stargazing was weird, read how the Administration conjured up economic policy.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/06/70607/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/06/70607/index.htm</guid><description>So you've absorbed all there is to know about astrological influences on the Reagan White House. Can you learn anything else from Donald Regan's deadpan but deadly memoir, For the Record: From Wall...</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deficit talk-talk</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/03/28/70381/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/03/28/70381/index.htm</guid><description>First, Treasury Secretary James A. Baker told Congress that tax increases were not necessary to shrink the U.S. budget deficit. The next day Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan said they ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 1988 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>JAMES A. BAKER III ECONOMIC POLICY CZAR</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/01/04/70043/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/01/04/70043/index.htm</guid><description>FOR BETTER or for worse, no one has exerted more influence over the course of the economy in 1987 than James A. Baker III, America's ever pragmatic Treasury Secretary. As other key players, includi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 1988 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FORTUNE magazine contents page JANUARY 4, 1987 VOL. 117, NO. 1 </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/01/04/70073/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/01/04/70073/index.htm</guid><description>BUSINESS PEOPLE OF THE YEAR </description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 1988 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Guessing Wrong on Feminism, Rewriting William James, Staving Off the Old Folks, and Other Matters. Look Out for the Ideolog!</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/21/69981/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/21/69981/index.htm</guid><description>We now return to a grievance not mentioned for several years but urgently needing a good groan in the present period. Gripe in question: the media's tendentious use of ''ideologue'' and ''pragmatis...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE DOLLAR: HOW LOW SHOULD IT GO? A modest decline from recent levels would be a lot better for the economy than trying to keep </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/07/69943/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/07/69943/index.htm</guid><description>CONFUSED about the dollar? So are Washington, Wall Street, and financial markets the world over. As the dollar danced the limbo in late October, sometimes dropping more than 1% a day against the ye...</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET BATTLER</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/23/69884/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/23/69884/index.htm</guid><description>At the center of the Washington vortex, where the budget deficit, taxes, and the dollar swirl into national policy, is Treasury Secretary and stalwart Texan James Baker. He and his new-found ally, ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>1987 NEED NOT BECOME 1929 The challenge to leaders: Avoid the old blunders that could turn confusion into chaos, and take the ne</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/23/69886/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/23/69886/index.htm</guid><description>As Vietnam was the first war fought on TV, so the crash of 1987 was the first stock market panic to unfold on camera, the first to be instantly communicated visually around the world. It brought ho...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW SLOW WILL THEY GROW? U.S. policymakers wonder why Germany and Japan can't generate more steam. But look closely. Their domes</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/09/69819/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/09/69819/index.htm</guid><description>THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK for two of the U.S.'s biggest trading partners, West Germany and Japan, annoys Treasury Secretary James Baker and will fuel the fire under protectionist legislation now before ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ACCIDENTAL TAX REFORM In 1986 ''politics'' miraculously led to an overhaul that most politicians didn't particularly care for.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/07/20/69266/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/07/20/69266/index.htm</guid><description>The Tax Reform Act of 1986, perhaps the largest revision of the tax code in U.S. history, was an astonishing event. It took place despite the determined opposition of legions of lobbyists -- and al...</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>REED: ''WE AREN'T CRAZY HERE''</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69178/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69178/index.htm</guid><description>Two days after he announced his blockbuster addition to Citicorp's loan loss reserves, Chairman John Reed discussed the move at length with FORTUNE's Jaclyn Fierman. Excerpts: </description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>LEARNING FROM REAGAN'S DEBACLE The principles that helped manager Reagan pile up so much success in his first six years are stil</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/04/27/68944/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/04/27/68944/index.htm</guid><description>THROUGH three-quarters of his presidency, Ronald Reagan appeared to be a manager any chief executive could learn from. Since November he has been a case study of everything to avoid. What happened?...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Creeping Reality in Brazil </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/04/13/68904/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/04/13/68904/index.htm</guid><description>When Treasury Secretary James Baker proposed solving the foreign debt crisis by sending debtor nations new loans in return for austerity measures, he was too late; it was clear that banks would eve...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 1987 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Curing your W-4 blues</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/03/01/83774/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/03/01/83774/index.htm</guid><description>If the Secretary of the Treasury publicly groused about the new W-4 tax- withholding form, how is the poor, befuddled taxpayer to cope? Although James Baker's troops are scrambling to simplify the ...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FORTUNE FORECAST WHERE THE DOLLAR IS HEADED -- WITH LUCK It should keep heading down gradually over the next couple of years. Bu</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/16/68674/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/16/68674/index.htm</guid><description>PERHAPS it was inevitable that the dollar would dip and dance like a kite on $ its long glide to earth. Its January dive, the most abrupt fall in the decline that began two years ago, reflected a l...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>POLITICS &amp;amp; POLICY/SPECIAL REPORT IS THE PACKWOOD PLAN REVENUE NEUTRAL? The Senate Finance Committee's tax package just might</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/06/09/67688/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/06/09/67688/index.htm</guid><description>Is the Senate Finance Committee's tax proposal really ''revenue neutral'' ? Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood would certainly like you to believe that revenue lost (mainly because of lower ta...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fretting over the dollar</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/26/67639/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/26/67639/index.htm</guid><description>When will the cheap dollar be too cheap? As the leaders of the seven major industrial nations gathered in Tokyo for the economic summit, the greenback stood at its postwar low against the yen and a...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>LOOKING TO TOKYO U.S. business wants a lower dollar but probably won't get it.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/12/67539/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/12/67539/index.htm</guid><description>MANY U.S. BUSINESSMEN, exporters in particular, would love to see the leaders of the industrial world lock arms and rally around Treasury Secretary James Baker's schemes for global economic coopera...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TOP-DOG LOBBYISTS A lot of chief executives lobby. Here are the most effective.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/04/14/67384/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/04/14/67384/index.htm</guid><description>CHIEF EXECUTIVES on lobbying missions are almost as common as tourists on Capitol Hill. Effective ones are a lot rarer. Here is a list of the best of the bunch, based on interviews with dozens of l...</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Money si, Baker no</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/20/67043/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/20/67043/index.htm</guid><description>Latin American nations found fault with Treasury Secretary James A. Baker's plan for solving the Third World debt problem. Meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay, ministers of 11 Latin American nations -- ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>BANKING'S BAD YEAR Bank lobbyists are about as welcome on Capitol Hill as they'd be at a farm auction.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/06/66946/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/06/66946/index.htm</guid><description>BANK LOBBYISTS sometimes think that things haven't changed much in Washington since Andrew Jackson told a visiting delegation of bankers in 1832: ''You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 1986 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY BAKER'S DEBT PLAN WON'T WORK Treasury Secretary Baker is asking banks to increase lending to Third World countries. He ignor</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/12/23/66805/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/12/23/66805/index.htm</guid><description>THOUGH widely hailed as bold and innovative, Treasury Secretary James A. Baker's plan for solving the Third World debt problem won't work. Like the plan in place up to now, this one doesn't face up...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>BAKER'S PLAN HAS A PECK OF PRACTICAL PROBLEMS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/12/23/66804/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/12/23/66804/index.htm</guid><description>Treasury Secretary James Baker envisions a three-pronged attack on the problems of 15 debt-laden developing countries. On one front he wants the debtor countries to make structural changes in their...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>NERVOUS MONEY KEEPS ON FLEEING In the heyday of lending to the Third World, more than half the money coming in from banks slippe</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/12/23/66803/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/12/23/66803/index.htm</guid><description>TREASURY SECRETARY James Baker's rescue plan for troubled debtor countries includes a blunt message to their governments. The U.S., he says, is tired of watching less developed countries borrow hug...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Baker at bat</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/10/28/66547/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/10/28/66547/index.htm</guid><description>James Baker seems to be turning into the most activist U.S. Secretary of the Treasury since his fellow Texan John Connally devalued the dollar for Richard Nixon in 1971. The attack Baker orchestrat...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>REAGAN'S DRIFT INTO ECONOMIC AD-HOCKERY The smooth policymaking machine of Reagan's first term has ground to a halt. Who'll get </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/05/27/65855/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/05/27/65855/index.htm</guid><description>THE MAKING AND SELLING of economic policy during the first six months of Ronald Reagan's first term seemed as smooth as a Chopin waltz. The first six months of his second term have sounded more lik...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 1985 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FRINGE FIGHTING Efforts to tax employee benefits pit the Treasury against almost everyone else.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/15/65793/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/15/65793/index.htm</guid><description>AS TREASURY SECRETARY James Baker puts the finishing touches on the Administration's tax reform proposal, a formidable new coalition is seeking to ambush one of the biggest money raisers in the pla...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>LOOK WHO'S WARMING TO BAKER'S TAX REFORM Lobbyists think the new Treasury Secretary's plan will be softer on business than the o</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/01/65723/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/01/65723/index.htm</guid><description>THE BUSINESS LOBBY'S ''No, never,'' on tax reform is turning into a ''Well, maybe.'' John M. Albertine, president of the American Business Conference, says, ''Overwhelming business support is not a...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>DON REGAN RECRUITS HIS WHITE HOUSE STAFF ( In his businesslike reorganization, he's at the top of the pyramid, with a promising </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/03/04/65651/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/03/04/65651/index.htm</guid><description>FOR RONALD REAGAN'S second term, chief of staff Donald T. Regan is doing more than putting new names in old boxes on the organizational chart. He's rebuilding the chart to create a streamlined, cor...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Reganism</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/02/04/65520/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/02/04/65520/index.htm</guid><description>President Reagan announced that Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker, ''after four grueling years'' in their current positions, will switch jobs. Regan,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 1985 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>