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Treasury Opens New Front In Investigation Of Failed Solar Energy Company

iWatch News | Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Energy, Treasury Department, Department of the Treasury, Solar Energy, Green Energy, Solyndra, Solar Power, Politics News

The Treasury Department's inspector general has opened a new front in the investigation of the government loan to Solyndra, the now bankrupt company t...

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Tim Geithner: Banks Have Spent Vast Sums To 'Erode' Financial Reform

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Dodd-Frank Act, Elizabeth Warren, Treasury Department, Dodd-Frank, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of the Treasury, Banks, Timothy Geithner, Banking Industry, Financial Regulation, Dodd-Frank Bill, Business News

Nearly one year after Congress passed financial reform, Timothy Geithner appears to have had enough with anti-Dodd-Frank lobbying efforts. Treasury...

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Lawrence Summers Needs to Retool his Wall Street Tilt

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Bingaman, Nouriel Roubini, Economic Policy, Joseph Stiglitz, Secuties Transaction Excise Taxes, George Soros, Department of the Treasury, Climate Change, Lawrence Summers, Financial Regulation, Business News
Steve Clemons

Summers, no matter what some critics say, is a formidable intellectual heavyweight on economics policy -- and will continue to be, long after he leaves the White House. However, he needs to retool.

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More Than Two Years into the Foreclosure Crisis, Homeowners Are Faced With the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Janis Bowdler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Security, Fha, President Obama, Hope for Homeowners, Responsibility, Nclr, Damaged Economy, Financial Reform, Department of the Treasury, Banking, Home, Federal Housing Administration, Transparency, Latino Families, Unemployment, Making Home Affordable (MHA) Program, National Council of La Raza, Foreclosure, Gridlocked Politics, Accountability, State of the Union, Home News
Janis Bowdler

In his State of the Union address, President Obama said, "It's time to get serious about fixing the problems that are hampering our growth. One place...

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Bailout May Cost $23.7 Trillion: Barofsky

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON - The federal government has devoted $4.7 trillion to help the financial sector through its crisis, a level of assistance equal to about on...

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Cuba, the Low-Hanging Fruit for Obama, Braces for Change

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Luis Posada Carriles, Terrorist, US-Cuba Policy, Raul Castro, Department of the Treasury, Cuba, Department of Commerce, Dr. Orlando Bosch, World News
Richard Walden

Changing U.S. policy towards Cuba is the low-hanging fruit on President Obama's foreign policy agenda. Change can be accomplished at the stroke of a pen.

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Alexander Hamilton's Scorn: Reflecting on AIG, Goldman, Hank Paulson and Bob Rubin

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alexander Hamilton, Bank of New York, Department of the Treasury, Hamilton Project, Executive Bonuses, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Citibank, Tom Daschle, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, American Financial Crisis, Nancy Killifer, Ron Chernow, Politics News
Steve Clemons

While many are criticizing the gross AIG taxpayer-funded bonuses of senior executives, the truth is that this kind of corruption is relatively small time -- even at $165 million -- and was predictable.

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There's Nothing Wrong with Geithner's Brain...

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Economic Stimulus Package, Age and Experience, Bank Bailouts, Tim Geithner, Hair Coloring, Department of the Treasury, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, Obama Administration, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

"I knew you'd get it. There's nothing like having a few wise gray heads around the Cabinet table to ease people's minds. Now, some of us go gray naturally..."

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