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New York Times: “The rapidly deteriorating finances of General Motors are forcing the federal government to decide whether to bail out the largest American automaker or face the prospect that it might go bankrupt.” GM Announces $5 billion in Additional Liquidity Enhancement Initiatives: “GM has taken a host of aggressive self help actions to improve …
Monthly Budget Review, November 2008 – Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for September and the Daily Treasury Statements for October, released November 7, 2008 “The federal government recorded a total budget deficit of $455 billion in fiscal year 2008, $293 billion more than the deficit incurred in 2007. The federal deficit rose as a …
News release: “The World Bank Executive Board of Directors (WB) approved today a loan of US$1,010 million for the Federal Mortgage Corporation (SHF). The objective of the project is to strengthen the SHF´s financial and technical ability so it may carry out its mission of developing the housing financing market, with an emphasis on expanding …
News release: “The Commission has approved the Report to Congress Under the Do Not Call Improvement Act of 2007 (2007 DNCIA) [Pub. L. No. 110-187, 122 Stat. 633 (2008)], signed into law on February 15, 2008. The report, which is mandated under the 2007 DNCIA, contains information on the Commissions efforts to improve the accuracy …
Financial Audit: Bureau of the Public Debt’s Fiscal Years 2008 and 2007 Schedules of Federal Debt, GAO-09-44, November 07, 2008: “in response to the nation’s growing financial crisis, on October 3, 2008, the President signed into law legislation authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase up to $700 billion in troubled assets from financial …
World Bank: Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Developing Countries, G-20 Finance Ministers Meeting São Paulo, Brazil “The current financial crisis has evolved differently from other major crises that have hit the developing world in recent decades. Not only is it occurring in a world of unprecedented financial globalization, where the financial sector plays a …
“Following each presidential election, GAO serves as a resource to assist with the transition to a new Congress and administration. On this Web site, Serving the Congress and the Nation, using its institutional knowledge and broad-based, nonpartisan work on matters across the government spectrum, GAO provides insight into, and recommendations for addressing, the nations major …
“Washington-Baltimore area consumers paid more for utility (piped) gas (19.4 percent) and electricity (9.2 percent) than the U.S. city average, while the price of gasoline (-0.8 percent) was slightly below the average price for the nation in July 2008 as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. …
Technical Security Evaluation of DHS Activities at Los Angeles International Airport, October 2008, (58 pages, PDF, Redacted): “This report addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the implementation of technical and information security policies and procedures at DHS components located at Los Angeles International Airport, California. It is based on interviews with employees and officials of …
Center for Automotive Research (CAR) – The Impact of the U.S. Economy of a Major Contraction of the Detroit Three Automakers, by David Cole, Ph.D., Chairman, Sean McAlinden, Ph.D., Vice President for Research, Kristin Dziczek, Senior Project Manager, Debra Maranger Menk, Project Manager, November 4, 2008 “The automotive industry has long been, and continues to …
