Obama tells Merkel economic policies must improve lives BERLIN (Reuters) - The need to balance budgets should not distract from the ultimate goal of economic policy, namely improving people's lives, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday in what appeared to be a dig at German Chancellor Angela Merkel's focus on austerity. Standing alongside Merkel at a news conference in Berlin, Obama said policies should be changed if they made people worse ...
June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News