Obama's challenge

Obama seeks huge
$775 billion job stimulus
In an effort to boost the job market, president-elect conveys to Congress a massive spending package to overhaul the nation's infrastructure, schools, broadband networks and energy use.
• Obama completes his Cabinet picks

Veteran regulator Schapiro tapped to head SEC
President-elect calls for significant changes to the financial regulatory system and picks veteran regulator to head SEC and a former Wall Street player to chair the CFTC. • Unprecedented task

SPECIAL SERIES
Health-care reform: Is its time now?
 
Obama lays out plans to tackle the three big problems of today's health care: coverage, cost and quality.
• Carmakers: Change Detroit needs now
• Housing: Helping Main Street
• Financials: Survival first
• Energy: Drill less, spend more
MarketWatch's series on what's ahead for key sectors under the new administration and what it means for investors.
 
political capitAL
When zero isn't low enough Should Obama begin embracing inflation? Some say we'll soon have to inflate our way out of the crisis, writes Darrell Delamaide.
 
Obama fills in his economic team
President-elect unveils his economic policy team, as he takes a more activist position in the transition period to assure Americans he'll act quickly and boldly to strengthen economy.
|• David Weidner: An invitation to the president-elect to pay a visit to Wall Street
 
Difficult tasks now lie ahead for the president-elect
A potentially deep U.S. recession and the sharpest global financial crisis since the Great Depression will give Democrat Barack Obama little time to back in the afterglow of his historic win in the U.S. presidential election.
• Obama completes historic quest to the White House
• Poor economy on voters' minds (blog) • Text of Obama victory speech
• Dems look to move fast  • Obama and the oil market
• Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital: No rest for the weary; Obama must get straight to work
 
 
POLITICS
Republicans vow to rebuild
Chairman of the Republican National Committee says the GOP will take a deep breath after its stunning losses on Tuesday, but will demand accountability from Obama and Democrats, and work to rebuild the GOP brand.

PAY AND EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
Family values
Candidates' stands on issues close to the hearts and wallets of women reflect a key difference in the philosophies of Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain.

COMMENTARY
rex nutting
A victory for the people
Never before have so many Americans -- Democrats and Republicans -- stood so tall, says Rex Nutting.

dave Callaway
Obama's twin challenges
Voters want Obama to fix the economy and save the world. But fix the economy first, says Dave Callaway.