Fed Audit

Treasury Blocks Regulation Of Market That Sparked $5.4 Trillion Fed Bailout

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 06.29.2011

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The Treasury Department plans to exempt foreign exchange derivatives from new Wall Street reform regulations, a Treasury official said Friday, dismiss...

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Ben Bernanke's Secret Global Bank

Mary Bottari | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanks to tremendous public pressure and the recently passed Wall Street reform bill, the U.S. Federal Reserve was forced to reveal the details of its emergency bailout of the financial sector for the first time yesterday.

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Alan Grayson To The Fed: 'We'll Be Back'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Wall Street reform package currently awaiting the return of Congress from the Fourth of July recess is packed with provisions that will remake the...

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Fed Audit Amendment Deal Struck In Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) will cosponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) amendment to audit the Fed, he said on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, thou...

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Fed Transparency: Dorgan, Grassley Push Amendment To Disclose Spending

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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A bipartisan pair of senators opened a second front in the fight to bring transparency to the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, introducing an amendment t...

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Fed Privately Lobbying Against Audit, Documents Show

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Federal Reserve is privately lobbying against a bipartisan Senate amendment that would open the central bank to an audit by the Government Account...

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Wall Street Reform: A Good First Step

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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This bill is unquestionably deserving of support. It will make the global economy a fairer marketplace. But it will not end the too-big-to-fail incentives that encourage Wall Street to take wild risks.

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Senate Accepts Expanded Fed Audit

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Senate will accept an expanded Federal Reserve audit proposal from the House as part of Wall Street conference committee deliberations, Sen. Chris...

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Six Key Fights for Wall Street Reform's Next Phase

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thursday night's passage of Wall Street reform is an event to be celebrated, but several key issues remain in play as the House and Senate iron out differences between their respective versions of the legislation.

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96-0: Fed Audit Passes Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE - 12:10 p.m. - The amendment to open the Fed to a one-time audit of its lending between December 1, 2007 and the present passed 96-0. * * * *...

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Ron Paul Backs Fed Audit Compromise

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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No politician has been more closely associated with the populist assault on the Fed over the last few decades than Dr. Ron Paul, the libertarian-leani...

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Fed Audit Bitterly Opposed By Treasury

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Treasury Department is vigorously opposed to a House-passed measure that would open the Federal Reserve to an audit by the Government Accountabili...

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Why the "Audit the Fed" Movement Is Dead Wrong

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the proposals of the "audit the Fed" crowd" are implemented, the U.S. economy will be crippled to the point of economic deadlock.

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GOP Sen. Shelby: Reorganize The Fed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The directors of the Federal Reserve regional banks are selected by the very banks that the Fed is supposed to regulate. It's a bizarre entanglement o...

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House Pushes For Sweeping Audit Of The Fed

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — House lawmakers want to pry open the books of the famously secretive Federal Reserve with legislation that would subject the centra...

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Fed Audit Bill Reaches 290 Cosponsors

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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The House bill that would shine a light on the Federal Reserve reached 290 cosponsors on Wednesday. Authored by longtime crusader for Fed transparenc...

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Remember That Whole Thing About Fixing Our Financial System?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

"Everybody understands," Geithner said on This Week, "that we cannot have our financial system go back to the practices that brought this economy to the brink of collapse." The problem is, it already has.

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Fed Audit Supported By 75% Of Americans: Survey

Posted 05.25.2011

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The calls to audit the Federal Reserve have come fast and furious in the last few weeks. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is continuing to push back against ...

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Fed Transparency Bill Progresses In House, Struggles In Senate

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ron Paul's [R, TX-14] bill to audit the Federal Reserve (H.R. 1207) has reached another landmark. Every single House Republican has now co-sponsored i...

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Bill To Audit Fed Sponsored By More Than Half Of House

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The effort to increase the transparency of the Federal Reserve's operations has picked up surprising momentum over the last month, and has now surged ...

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