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askSam: “This database contains a complete text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 also known as the Stimulus Bill or Bailout Bill. It was formerly referred to as the Economic Stimulus Act. This database is fully searchable by division, title, section, and keyword. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“Stimulus …
FDIC Consumer News Winter 2009, March 11, 2009 – Special Edition: Managing Your Money in Good Times and Bad Good Ways to Get Started Cutting Back / Tips on Putting Your Dollars to Work…for You! / Make the Most of Your FDIC Guarantee / When the Economy Cools Down, Financial Scams Heat Up / …
Using Pricing to Reduce Traffic Congestion, March 2009 “Congestion costs highway users billions of dollars every year. Although policymakers have adopted a variety of strategies for reducing or mitigating congestion, relatively little attention has been paid to policies to promote more efficient use of the highway system. One such policy is congestion pricing, under which …
Clean Coal: DOE Should Prepare a Comprehensive Analysis of the Relative Costs, Benefits, and Risks of a Range of Options for FutureGen, GAO-09-465T, March 11, 2009 Clean Coal: DOE’s Decision to Restructure FutureGen Should Be Based on a Comprehensive Analysis of Costs, Benefits, and Risks, GAO-09-248, February 13, 2009 Forest Service: Emerging Issues Highlight the …
“The purpose of this hearing [was] to assess Treasurys oversight of the use of funds by financial institutions provided under the TARP. The hearing…evaluate[d] Treasurys data collection procedures for monitoring the use of TARP funds allocated under the Capital Purchase Program, the largest TARP program. The hearing…also examine[d] Treasurys ability to detect and prevent waste …
Houston Business Journal: “Bank of America Corp. now ranks as the largest U.S. bank ranked by assets, according to a study by SNL Financial. Charlotte, N.C.-based BofA had total assets of almost $2.5 trillion as of Dec. 31. Prior to its recent acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., BofA would have been ranked third …
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary: “Regional and state unemployment rates were nearly all higher in January. Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, while all states and the District of Columbia had higher rates than a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of …
OMB Memoranda: M-09-14, Recovery Act Implementation Improving Grants.gov and Other Critical Systems (March 9, 2009) “Effective implementation of the Recovery Act is a critical part of the effort to jumpstart economic activity and a top priority for the Administration. Central to carrying out the provisions of the Recovery Act with unprecedented levels of transparency …
News release: “The Worlds 50 Safest Banks 2009 were selected through a comparison of the long-term credit ratings and total assets of the 500 largest banks around the world. Ratings from Moodys, Standard & Poors and Fitch were used.” [Note: only two U.S. banks on this list – 26. US Bancorp and 47. JPMorgan Chase] …
GOOD [via theeconomysucks – [“a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward”]: informative, insightful, infographics on Making Sense of the Financial Mess. Related postings on financial system
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C. March 10, 2009, Financial Reform to Address Systemic Risk “The first element of my proposed reform agenda covers systemically important institutions considered individually. The second element focuses on interactions among firms as mediated by what I have called the financial infrastructure, or the …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the first comprehensive national system for reporting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by major sources in the United States…The new reporting requirements would apply to suppliers of fossil fuel and industrial chemicals, manufacturers of motor vehicles and engines, as well as large …
