720P:  Ann Marlowe, Wall Street Journal, Tunku Varadarajan, Hoover, with Simon Constable, DowJones Newswire, re the new plan from the Obama administration in Afghanistan.  Text: Obama's Remarks  Obama Defines New Afghan Strategy Obama unveiled a strategy that devotes more resources to combat Afghan narcotics and boost development in Pakistan.  Holbrooke holds back

735P: Professional Roundtable Jodi Schneider, CQ, Mona Charen, NRO, John Fund, Wall Street Journal, re Tim Geithner's peculiar week, re POTUS meets the bankers: List of CEOs at Meeting Re the POTUS goes to Europe.  Obama to Woo Public on Europe Trip

750P:  Continued re the AIG flap goes away, or does it?  Re Cap and Trade, or Healthcare for all?  Senate Panel Clears $3.6 Trillion Budget Obama's fiscal agenda gained steam, as a Senate panel embraced a $3.6 trillion budget that Republicans complained would pile up a huge federal debt

805P: Caroline Salas,  Bloomberg, with Simon Constable, DowJones Newswire, re Eat-What-You-Kill Bond Traders Rise From Wall Street Wreckage: Eat-What-You-Kill Bond Traders Rise From Wreckage (Update2) March ...

820P:  Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, re North Korea threatens to launch the missile, re Japan will shoot down missile parts, re Tom Geithner misspeaks re the dollar, re China wants a new world currency, why?  Japan to Shoot Down Missile Debris  

835: Financial Professionals, with Tom Donlan, Barron's, John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Simon Constable, Dow Jones,  Aaron Task, Blame the Dollar For Worldwide Pain - Daniel Ben-Ami, Fund Strategy  Is Geithner's Plan Too Big To Succeed? - Scott Jagow, Scratch Pad

850P: Continued, The Dangerous Banking-Witch Hunt - Camilla Cavendish, Times of London  Treasury Is Mum Over TARP Funds

905P:  Aaron Klein, WND, re the reports of the IAF air raid on a weapons convoy in the Sudan bound for Hamas in Gaza in January, re where and when the strike, and what response from Hamas, from Sudan, from Iran?   Israel Disputes Soldiers' Accounts of Gaza Abuses

920P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major Jewish Organizations, re Netanyahu forms a government with Barak's Labor?  Re Iran's elections already decided, re the Obama administration and Hamas.

935P: Tom Jones and Ellen Stofan, authors "Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System," re the stunning growth in planetology, not only in the rocky and wet inner planets of Earth and Mars and Venus, but also in the gas giant Saturn and the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, especially Titan, Europa and Enceladus, re extremophiles, re the evidence of planetary bombardment on Earth.

955P: Exeunt re  Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror, re Discovery mission to ISS, re Jonah at Canaveral when a wrench falls on tiles of the prepping Atlantis for the Hubble rescue mission in May.  Re 

Mount Redoubt. The volcano on the west side of Cook Inlet erupted Thursday morning sending ash clouds an estimated 65,000 feet into the air dusting the towns on the Kenai Peninsula including the towns of Kenai, Ninilchik and Homer.

 (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

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705P PT: .  David Reilly, Bloomberg, Banks' Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge: David Reilly March ...  The Dangerous Banking-Witch Hunt - Camilla Cavendish, Times of London

Banks' Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge: David Reilly March 25 (Bloomberg) -- The US government wants to clear as much as $1 trillion in soured loans ...

720P:  Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times, Beijing, China urges switch from dollar as reserve currency China's central bank yesterday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global regime...  Beijing scuppers $2.4bn Coke move  China yesterday rejected a $2.4bn Coca-Cola deal that would have been the country's biggest foreign take-over, stoking fears

735P:  Professional Roundtable with with Diana West, author, Larry Johnson, No Quarter and State (ret), Margaret Hoover, FNC, re Obama administration vs the bankers Bank CEOs Meet at White House.

750P: Continued re Timothy Geithner and the China regime, re the AIG flap, week 2.  Big Three anchors heading to London

805P: Professional roundtable with Bill Whalen, Hoover, Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, re California unemployment headed to 12%  Bad blood: GOP infighting on budget.  Reid: Roberts 'didn't tell us the truth'

820P:  Continued re New York Times Will Cut Salaries.   Bad news week for newspapers    Obama's TV Tour Still Boosts Ratings

835P:  Rick Doble and Tom Philbin, authors, "Cheaper: Insider Tips for Saving on Everything,"   Rick Doble is the king of haggling and has been teaching people how to save money on his website, in his newsletter, and in magazines for fifteen years. He lives in Smyrna, North Carolina. Tom Philbin writes both fiction and nonfiction. He is the author of How to Hire a Home Improvement Contractor Without Getting Chiseled and other books on saving money. He lives in Centerport, New York. 

850P: Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, the POTUS goes to Europe, headed to the semi-Islamic state of Turkey, and why?   Why Turkey Matters To The U.S. Obama will need all of his diplomatic skills in Ankara.

905P:  Douglas E.  Schoen, co-author with Michael Rowan, "The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America," re the intelligentm savvy, sophisticated and determined Hugo Chavez who see his success against American interests as a success for his revolution.

920P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, Hong Kong, re China and one-world currency,  re China rejects Coke bid on juice-maker, re  ICBC secures Goldman pledge Industrial and Commercial Bank of China yesterday secured a promise from Goldman Sachs that the US bank would hold the, re 

935P: Peter Singer, author, "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty,"  "Singer uses ethical arguments, provocative thought experiments, illuminating examples and case studies of charitable giving to show that it is within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings.  At a time when Americans are justifiably anxious about the economy, we need to remember that virtually all those living in rich nations remain far better off than those living in extreme poverty."  ebook.

955P:  Exeunt Lou Ann Hammond, carlist.com, re Volvo for sale in China, re car insurance fraud on the rise as the economy sinks.  Signs of Stress, Fraud on Roadside Authorities report a growing number of cars burned or ditched, as sinking home values and rising unemployment spur desperate owners to chase insurance payouts.

720P:  Nirmala Menon, Wall Street Journal, re Canada's crashed economy, re Canada output shrank like denim in the final quarter 2008, re the commodities crash in Canada and the collapse of automobile manufacturing and industrial growth, re more cars are manufactured in Ottawa than in Michigan, re What NAFTA?

735P: Professional Roundtable,  John Fund, Wall Street Journal, Mona Charen, NRO, Jodi Schneider,CQ, re the "horrendous" job loss numbers, re the Obama budget goes to Congress and runs into the GOP Senate veterans.

750P:  Continued re controlled grief and rage of the high-end employed toward the job losses, the foreclosures, the plunging markets, the worldwide malaise, the strange detachment of the White House and the certainty of higher taxes.  Horrendous! There can be no other word to describe this employment report. Adding in the revisions to December and January, there are more than 800,000 fewer jobs in February than were previously reported for January, while the unemployment rate is higher than at any time since December 1983. Unfortunately, the weekly jobless claims data suggest more of the same is coming for March.

805P:  Kevin Kingsbury, Dow Jones, with Simon Constable, Dow Jones, re the slow motion torture of Ford and Detroit (right, unemployment lines Detroit, 1980):  Ford Aims to Restructure Debt Ford announced plans to retire up to $10.4 billion in debt, or 40% of the car maker's total, by paying debt holders cash and stock.  Moody's, S&P Cut Ford Credit Ratings  Ford Reports Bleak February Ford posted a 48% drop in U.S. light-vehicle sales for February. Other auto makers will report later in the day. GM's European Operations Low on Cash 

820P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, re the HRC visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah, Clinton on European charm offensive, re the HRC invitation to Iran to join in Afghanistan talks, Clinton to open negotiations with Syria, re the strange offer of quid pro quo on Iran nukes to Moscow.

835: Financial Roundtable, Barron's John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Simon Constable, Dow Jones,  Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re the stress test that is not a stress test, re the markets tell Treasury that Citigroup and Bank of America are nationalized, and does Treasury hear?

850P: Continued, re the Fed and the dollar, defending what?  Re Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig points to the fact that the market has already nationalized.

905P:  Robert Wright, Financial Times, with Simon Constable, Dow Jones, re Piracy brings rich booty to Somalia  After the ransom for the Sirius Star, the highest-profile victim of Somali piracy, was delivered in January, an impromptu beach party started near Hobyu, the southern Somali town where it had been moored.

920P:  Aaron Klein, WND, re the HRC visit to the region, re the conversations with Bibi Netanyahu vs the conversations with M. Abbas, re the pledge of aid to Gaza despite the Hamas gangsters, re the bulldozer terror attack by yet another East Jerusalem resident, shot dead at the scene.

935P:  Daniel Mark Epstein, author, "Lincoln's Men: The President and His Private Secretaries," re John Nicolay and John Hay, who lived in the White House, across the hall from the president's office, and also William Stoddard, who all spent more time with Lincoln than anyone else outside his immediate family.

955P: Exeunt re "Detroit Nation," with Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (Livonia) (right, Detroit riots 1967), White House Holds Autos Meeting  Geithner and Summers plan to hold an auto task force meeting Friday at the White House to discuss restructuring efforts at GM and Chrysler.  GM More Open to Bankruptcy

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705P PT:  Alan Murray, Wall Street Journal, with Simon Constable, Dow Jones, with Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (Livonia), re the the middle managers who are swept aside in the layoffs and left adrift, neither wealthy nor highly employable, re is this a deep recession or a depression and does it signify, re the story so far of the sharpest plunge in employment perhaps since 1948 (right, jobless in North Miami) -- a generational sell-off?

720P:  Michael Ramsey, Bloomberg, with Simon Constable, Dow Jones, with Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (Livonia), Chrysler Talks Stall as Banks Balk at Trading Loans for Equity:  Chrysler must reduce its debt by $5 billion by getting creditors such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. to trade debt for an ownership stake or by changing loan terms in order to be viable.  Banks have little incentive to trade their loans, and the only other creditors Chrysler lists that could take more equity for debt are the U.S. government and the United Auto Workers union, which already has agreed in principle to reduce its obligation by 50 percent.  US admits rising automaker uncertainty

735P:  Professional Roundtable with, Larry Johnson, No Quarter and State (ret), Ann Marlowe, Wall Street Journal, Tunku Varadarajan, Forbes.com, re Afghanistan and Pakistan policy from the new Obama administration, re the semi-surge, re the deterioration of Pakistan, re the Lahore attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team. Miliband warns of 'mortal threat' to Pakistan  Foreign Secretary calls on the troubled country's political leaders to unite against homegrown extremists

750P: Continued  with Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (Livonia), re the HRC invitation to Iran in the upcoming Afghanistan conference.   No withdrawal date for US troops in Afghanistan - Missile rethink would leave Polish and Czech leaders twisting in the wind - Obama urged to take tough Iran sanctions   Obama woos Putin

805P: Professional roundtable with Jim McTague, Barrons, Bill Whalen, Hoover, John Avlon, DailyBeast.com, re the "horrendous" jobs report for February, re the Obama budget goes to Congress and runs into the GOP Senate veterans. US unemployment

820P:  Continued with Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (Livonia), re the extreme spike in unemployment, extreme spike in foreclosures and houses underwater in California, Nevada, Arizona, re the patience of the public with the new administration.  Obama says health reform cannot wait

835P: Dennis Berman, Wall Street Journal, with Simon Constable, Dow Jones, re the weird parallels between the Great Depression and today, re the confusion and despair in the 1930s as the economy sagged, rose and then sagged deeper several times, 1933, 1935, 1937, re the difficulty of historical parallels.  History Tugs Back Recovery Hopes 

850P:  Bob Zimmerman, author, "Universe in a Mirror," re the Kepler launch on Friday 3/6/09 and the Kepler mission to find 50-100 Edens in the Northern Hemisphere sky (right the Kepler mirror), re the continuing evidence of Jonah at NASA with regard phony parts in the Kepler mission, re does the Obama administration disdain space?

905P:  Jim Rogers, Rogers Holdings, from Singapore,  re the "horrendous jobs number in the US, re the brewing trouble with the report that the Treasury bail-out if AIG has included at least $50 billion passed through to foreign based banks:  Top U.S., European Banks Got AIG Aid  At least two dozen financial firms, including Goldman and Deutsche Bank, have been paid about $50 billion since the Fed extended aid to AIG.

920P: Gordon Fairclough, Wall Street Journal,  from Shanghai, re protectionism and China, re China Tightens Food-Safety Laws   China deflates Asian share market hopes.

935P:  Edward Humes, autor, "Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet," re the ecology and environmental opportunities for entreprenurs and  crusaders.