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- So many issues, but so little action expected.(Outlook 2004)
- Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON - Pension and retirement issues are expected to crowd lawmakers' legislative calendar, but few changes are likely to be enacted in this shorter-than-usual politically charged election year. At the top of the list Byline: Vineeta Anand ...
- Research articles 2004-01-12
- Pension plan sponsors vocal on benchmark proposal.(News)
- Byline: VINEETA ANAND WASHINGTON-Corporate America is waging a lobbying campaign to avert a Treasury Department proposal that could require many of the nation's top companies to report higher pension liabilities and shovel more money into their pe Byline: VINEETA ANAND ...
- Research articles 2003-07-07
- Call to arms; BENCHMARK BATTLE: Employers lobby over Treasury proposal.(News)
- Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON - Corporate America is waging a take-no-prisoners-style lobbying campaign to avert a Treasury Department proposal that could require many of the nation's top companies to report higher pension liabilities and shove Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON -...
- Research articles 2003-06-23
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- Dem Bill Urges New U.S. Powers Over Financial Firms
- By Kevin Drawbaugh and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government would gain far-reaching new powers to regulate, and even shut down, large financial firms that threaten economic stability under a draft bill released in Congress on Tuesday.Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration agreed on the legislation, which seeks to...
- News items 2009-10-27
- U.S. braces for financial regulation overhaul
- WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress will take over the government this month with big plans to overhaul U.S. financial regulation and a surge of momentum behind them. From the mortgage meltdown to the Bernard Madoff scandal, the financial system is in crisis. Critics are hammering the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- U.S. to re-examine ports plan
- WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said Sunday it will accept an extraordinary offer by a United Arab Emirates-based company to submit to a second -- and broader -- U.S. review of potential security risks in its deal to take over significant operations at six leading American ports. The plan averts...
- Research articles 2006-02-27
- Terrorists, Crimes & Tax: Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Regulation as the U.S. Announces a Budget Increase to FinCEN
- The U.S. Treasury Department has announced that the Bush Administration will seek a 12.7% increase in the budget for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network FinCEN as part of the 2005 budget, (U.S. Treasury Department, Press Release JS-1100, January 16 The U.S. Treasury Department has announced...
- Research articles 2004-01-19
- GMAC gets $5-billion in U.S. bailout funds
- WASHINGTON — ? The U.S. Treasury Department said that it will provide $5-billion (U.S.) to GMAC Financial Services LLC, the ailing financing arm of General Motors Corp., in a move expected to stave off a bankruptcy protection filing at the company but also severely limit GM's control over it. In...
- News items 2009-08-07
- 'Big Three' Badly in Need
- William Patalon III submits: The U.S. Treasury Department has rejected General Motors Corp.’s GM request of $10 billion in assistance for its potential merger with Chrysler LLC after the Bush Administration decided it didn’t want to broaden its $700 billion financial rescue program to include industrial...
- External links 2008-11-04
- In Michigan, bank lends little of its U.S. bailout funds
- The bad bets made by executives at Independent Bank of Michigan are on display in spots across the state: a defunct bowling alley, a new but never occupied shopping center and the luxurious Whispering Woods Estates, which offers prime lots for never-constructed dream homes. Now it is the U.S. government making...
- News items 2009-08-07
- U.S. Puts Up $6 Billion to Support Auto Lender GMAC
- By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - The Bush administration on Monday expanded its bailout of the U.S. auto industry, saying it was buying $5 billion (3.4 billion pounds) in equity in auto and mortgage finance company GMAC and increasing a loan to General Motors GM by $1 billion. The...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Treasury opens new intelligence office to cut off terrorists' financial support.(EPN News Roundup)(Brief Article)
- The Bush administration has created the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the Treasury Department to consolidate resources for cutting off lines of financial support to international terrorists, protecting the U.S. financial system, fighting financial crime, enforcing economic sanctions against rogue nations, and assisting ...
- Research articles 2004-03-23
- Bush Could Bail Out Automakers, After All
- President Bush signaled today he may throw GM and Chrysler a lifeline after all, following the defeat in the U.S. Senate of a proposed auto bailout bill. The House on Dec. 10 approved $14 billion in emergency loans to GM and Chrysler, based on a compromise worked out between the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Former Univ. of Md. professor being considered for U.S. Treasury
- Susan C. Schwab, a University of Maryland professor and a former Commerce Department assistant secretary in the first Bush administration, is under consideration by President Bush to be deputy Treasury secretary, according to people familiar with the process. Schwab, 48, has been dean of UM's School of Public Affairs for...
- Research articles 2003-07-03
- 'Because that's where the money is': the U.S. government finds a way to hurt Kim Jong Il
- SINCE the stern warnings delivered in the "Axis of Evil" speech in 2002, North Korea and most other problem states have felt distinctly undeterred from doing much as they please. Five years on, it hardly seems as if the Bush administration will be remembered for excellence in the art of...
- Research articles 2007-06-25
- Automakers get $17.4 billion lifeline from gov't
- WASHINGTON - Citing danger to the national economy, the Bush administration approved an emergency bailout of the U.S. auto industry Friday, offering $17.4 billion in rescue loans in exchange for concessions from the deeply troubled carmakers and their workers. The government will have the option of becoming a stockholder in...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Five Big Questions For GM, Ford and Chrysler
- As GM and Chrysler haggle with the Treasury Department over the final details of their first $8 billion in rescue loans, there are several questions to which we still have no answers. So in the spirit of David Letterman, here are the Top Five Unanswered Questions about the Detroit Three:...
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- Sen. Levin Seeks Details on Citigroup Pact With Treasury
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Carl Levin said on Sunday he plans to subpoena the Treasury Department to see its agreement with Citigroup and determine what commitments the financial institution made in exchange for government aid. Citigroup received a $25 billion injection from the U.S. government in October as part of...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Obama chooses three more to take on financial reforms
- CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday named three veteran regulators to round out his economic team and vowed to revamp regulatory rules to prevent a repeat of the financial and economic debacles the country is now undergoing. He wouldn't weigh in on whether he would support a decision by...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Bush's Bank Rescue Opens Door to Private Investors
- Would you invest in a bank that's partially owned by the Bush Administration? That's the question private investors worldwide will be exploring as they evaluate the impact of the federal government's decision to directly invest in the nation's largest banking concerns. In return for...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
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