Burman, a Treasury tax official during the Clinton administration, cautioned the Obama administration against using the stimulus as a pretext to make either middle-class tax cuts or its proposed new refundable tax credits permanent.

FORBES: Obama's Tax Choices

In the long run, he must also make political space in Rwanda for the Hutu rebel forces who maraud through eastern Congo and give General Nkunda a pretext for his depredations.

ECONOMIST: Congo