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Ryan Grim

Fed Audit Bitterly Opposed By Treasury

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

Shahien Nasiripour

House Panel May Keep Public In The Dark About Emerging Threats To Financial System

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Members of Congress and the general public may not be told of "potential emerging threats to the stability of the financial system," thanks to a Thurs...

Ryan Grim

Audit The Fed Effort Under Threat In House

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

A bipartisan effort to force transparency on the Federal Reserve is suddenly in jeopardy after a House Financial Services Committee member introduced ...

Arthur Delaney

Audit The Fed Effort Wins Support From An Unusual Coalition

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

An unusual coalition of progressive economists, labor leaders, and bloggers has decided to fight back against a congressional amendment that would all...

US Lawmakers In Cuba For Talks With Top Officials

Reuters | Esteban Israel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

U.S. lawmakers met with Cuba's foreign minister and laid flowers at a Havana memorial to slain U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King on Saturday...

The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Paul Jenkins

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.