...Mae will help push off the effective date on which the U.S. would hit its debt limit until at least Labor Day, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said Friday.But lawmakers still should raise the debt limit soon to avoid creating anxiety about...
...consisting of four seats for environmentalists, four for industry and four for independent figures, including former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency chief...
...extending top-rate tax cuts and also to allow public and private pressure to build on the Republican leadership.Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner underscored the president's determination when he told CNBC the administration was "absolutely...
...money," said Phillip Swagel, a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland and a former assistant treasury secretary under President George W. Bush who authorized the first installment of GM's bailout.Under the deal, GM will...
When news pundits last week poked fun at U.S. Treasury secretary nominee Jack Lew's handwriting style, I felt like screaming, "Let my people go!"His signature, a horizontal coiled spring...
...Congress are calling for spending cuts as part of an agreement to increase the government's authority to borrow. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. will exhaust its borrowing authority as soon as mid-February, raising the possibility...
...service jobs, then, that's it."TECHNOLOGY LEADS TO MASS UNEMPLOYMENT: In a speech last year, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers declared that the biggest economic issue of the future would not be the federal debt or competition...
...support the necessary process of repair and recovery of the housing market," said Michael Stegman, who serves as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's counselor on housing policy.Industry groups including the American Bankers Association and...
...ago of big banks understating their borrowing costs to manipulate a key interest rate.The documents also show Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was then president of the New York Fed, urged the Bank of England to make the rate-setting...
...biggest drop since February 2011.Geithner accused of LIBOR inactionWASHINGTON - Republican lawmakers are criticizing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for not alerting Congress four years ago that banks could have been manipulating a global interest...
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