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By Steve Cocheo, executive editor, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it [This article was posted on April 9, 2009 on the website of ABA Banking Journal, www.ababj.com, and is copyright 2009 by the American Bankers Association.] If you find the range of federal programs intended to address the ... (more)

Bull By The Horns: Fighting To Save Main Street From Wall Street And Wall Street From Itself.

It's often said that money corrupts. But a new study says that just the thought of getting cash will do the trick.

On the morning of Feb. 11, 2011, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner gave a speech at the Brookings Institution near DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C., addressing the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

In the summer of 2009, with the U.S. economy badly wounded and the nation's financial calamity still a vivid memory, President Barack Obama's closest aides began a vital discussion about who he should nominate to run the Federal Reserve.

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The Internal Revenue Service, which is already in hot water for concealing its abuse of conservative nonprofits from Congress, may also have lowballed a U.S. senator who asked last year how much of the taxpayers' money it was spending on lavish parties for staffers.

The famed - and much derided - Bilderberg Group is meeting this week in Britian to discuss whatever it is the world's super elite discuss at their secretive annual gatherings.

To date, a handful of Internal Revenue Service officials as well as incoming U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew have been brought before Congressional committees to answer for the ever-growing scandal in which conservative tax-exempt groups were unfairly targeted by the IRS for political reasons.

Another insider account of the Obama administration is coming. Former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is writing about his decades in Washington, says Penguin Press.

Leon Panetta is the latest Cabinet member who served during President Barack Obama's first term to have a book deal.

PolitiFact's staff woke up to shocking news on Wednesday: U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has decided not to run for re-election. Bachmann, a tea party favorite, had a knack for making eyebrow-raising statements that the media loved to quote.

Around this time two years ago, then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent Congress a letter saying that the U.S. would be able to take "extraordinary measures" until Aug.

Most people have no idea what is going on with the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve or the black projects.

Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has tapped Michael Grunwald, the senior national correspondent for Time magazine, to help him write his forthcoming book about the financial crisis.

T estifying for before the Senate Finance Committee, 43-year-old former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman shrugged, saying he wasn't to blame for the venerable tax-collecting agency to harass right wing 501c nonprofits.