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FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2011, file photo U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answers questions at the closing press conference of the G20 Finance summit in Paris. Five years and one financial crisis since the United States and China commenced regular high-level economic talks, fast-growing Beijing might have the upper hand Monday, May 9, 2011, in the latest round of discussions between the world's two biggest economies. While analysts don't foresee major breakthroughs at the talks Monday and Tuesday, China's expanding economic might will give it greater leverage now. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File) (AP)

Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke speaks at a the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicagos 47th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition Thursday, May 5, 2011, in Chicago. Regulators must better understand threats to the financial system to be able to prevent another crisis, Bernanke acknowledged Thursday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) (AP)

Martin Crutsinger

** HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 12:10 AM EST TUESDAY NOV. 22, 2010 ** This image provided by the White House shows chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, Austan Goolsbee, during a White House White Board video series. Pay a visit to the White House blog, Facebook or YouTube and you'll find Goolsbee planted in front of a dry-erase board deconstructing the president's economic policies on matters such as taxes and jobs. Four times this fall, Goolsbee has taken marker in hand to frame complex economic matters in viewer-friendly terms. (AP Photo/White House) (AP)

Associated Press

Eric Cantor and John Boehner

In this May 3, 2011 photo, Samantha Ferrara, 19, waits in line for a job fair to open, in Independence, Ohio. Employers added more than 200,000 jobs in April for the third straight month, the biggest hiring spree in five years. But the unemployment rate rose to 9 percent in part because some people resumed looking for work. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) (Tony Dejak)

The end of the recovery?

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington after meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., regarding the budget and possible government shutdown, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

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Moody's warns government of debt downgrade risk

(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (Elaine Thompson)

President Obama

FILE - In this file photo taken May 6, 2011, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. World share markets sank Thursday, May 12, 2011, after a slide on Wall Street sparked by tumbling demand for oil and fears of slackening growth in the U.S.(AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, file) (AP)

Pallavi Gogoi, Michelle Chapman

A price board is shown at a Shell gas station in Novato, Calif., Thursday, May 5, 2011. Oil tumbled nearly 7 percent Thursday amid new signs that demand for fuel in the U.S. is weakening. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) (AP)

Peter Finocchiaro

Jimmy Carter in his famous "moral equivalent of war" fireside chat in 1977.

Obama still hasn't shaken the Carter syndrome

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about his birth certificate, Wednesday, April 27, 2011, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington on Wednesday.

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FILE - On this April 6, 2011, file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks at an Americans for Prosperity "Cut Spending Now," rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama has launched his re-election bid in a low-key manner, but the Republican Partys search for a challenger seems stranger by the day. In Iowa at least, theres also widespread talk about Bachmann, who would be the first president elected directly from the House since James Garfield. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (AP)

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., at podium, declares that he was "disappointed" in President Obama's speech on a federal spending plan, Wednesday, April 13, 2011, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., Ryan, Republican Conference Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

FILE - In this April 14, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks to media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Campaigning to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, President Barack Obama joins the last-minute throng to file returns. A year ago, the president and his wife earned $5.5 million, mostly from book sales, paying about one-third of it in federal taxes while employing the Bush-era tax cuts Obama is trying to end. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) (AP)

An image from the cover of economist Barry Eichengreen's "Exorbitant Privilege"

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