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After the resolution of the debt-ceiling impasse, rumors have been flying that the last senior member of Barack Obama’s original economic team will call it quits. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner refused to answer questions about his plans yesterday on ABC’s Good Morning America, which doesn’t exactly sound like a man planning on staying in the job much longer: Speculation is rife in Washington that Geithner, who has outlasted all of President Obama’s other original economic advisors, will resign now that the nation’s borrowing capacity has been extended to 2013 and a 10-year, $2.1 trillion deficit-reduction agreement enacted.Geithner’s consideration of a...

Chris Christie needed a win. On Thursday night, he got one. Christie, the New Jersey Republican challenging incumbent Democratic governor Jon Corzine, has seemed aimless in recent weeks, fading in the polls just as this tight gubernatorial race enters its final stretch. In early August, a Monmouth/Gannett poll showed Christie ahead by 14 points; this week, the same poll showed him ahead by just three. Wednesday’s Quinnipiac poll also showed Christie only slightly ahead, 43 percent to 39 percent. In July, Quinnipiac had Christie besting Corzine by 13 points. The catalog of reasons for Christie’s drop is as long as...