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<i>Brian Fallow:</i> Printing money act of desperation

Divided rule: Republican rebound blow

US voters yesterday rebuked Obama's handling of the nation's affairs by returning legislative power to the Republicans.

<i>Anne Penketh</i>: President battered by deluge of insults

The knives were out for President Barack Obama even before the last votes were counted in the mid-term elections.

<i>Cartoon:</i> Strictly platonic

Experience US elections - via the web

The internet offers an exciting variety of new ways to view trends in the current mid-term elections in the US.

<i>John Armstrong:</i> Closer links with US military come loaded with costs

<i>Kevin Hassett</i>: Divided Washington could be ideal tonic for US economy

<i>Bernard Hickey: </i>NZ must fight its corner in the Currency Wars

Clinton lost nuclear launch code card: General

Outsized influence of the rich waiting to deal to Obama in elections

Obama on the Democrat trail

Ads get ugly as US election day draws near

The US mid-term elections are seeing the nastiest TV advertising in some time.

The great American mortgage crisis deepens

After the Subprime Mortgage Mess, the US Foreclosure Fiasco.

Wall St welcomes Fed confirmation of easing

Equities on Wall Street welcomed clarification about Federal Reserve policy makers' plans for further monetary easing to help propel US economic growth.

Obama loses another staffer

The autumn of American discontent