By: Anthony Reyes
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Manal Corwin, Treasury’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs, was recognized as one of ten finalists in consideration to be named the 2012 Tax Notes Person of the Year.
Posted in: Tax Policy
By: Anthony Reyes
Monday, January 07, 2013
The latest video in the "White House White Board" online series presents Brian Deese, the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, explaining what the new agreement to extend tax cuts for the middle class means for the economy and how it will help meet President Obama's key economic priorities.
Posted in: Tax Policy
By: Nani Coloretti
Monday, January 07, 2013
Treasury understands that small businesses are a backbone of the economy, and we strive each year to increase available opportunities to work with small businesses in every facet of Treasury business. For the second year in a row, Treasury has outpaced its goals for small business contracting.
Posted in: Management and Budget
By: Anthony Reyes
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Following a competition throughout the fall, the Treasury Department’s Ready.Save.Grow campaign recently named the four Grand Prize Winners of its nationwide “Save Out Loud” Contest, which captured savings stories from students and families across the country.
Posted in: Bureau of Public Debt
By: Jeff Zients
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Compared to “current policy” and based on estimates from the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation – Congress’s official score-keeping bodies – we can see that H.R. 8, the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012,” would reduce the deficit by $737 billion.
Posted in: Bugdet Management
By: Matt Anderson
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Today, Secretary Geithner sent the following letter to Congress regarding the debt limit.
Posted in: Debt Management
By: Timothy Massad
Friday, December 21, 2012
On Wednesday, most of the public attention on the TARP program was focused on Treasury’s announcement that it intends to fully exit its investment in General Motors within the next 12-15 months.
Posted in: Financial Stability
By: Jonathan Sokobin
Friday, December 21, 2012
How might the dynamics of a flock of birds in flight, a group of drivers in a traffic jam, or a panicked crowd of stampeding people inform our analysis of threats to financial stability?
Posted in: Financial Research
By: Kimberly Beauman
Friday, December 21, 2012
Earlier this month, Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal S. Wolin spoke at the White House Tribal Nations Conference to outline Treasury’s initiatives to support the economic development of Native Communities across the nation. One program highlighted by Deputy Secretary Wolin was the Native Initiatives, which has already helped many communities, and is administered by the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund).
Posted in: Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
By: Anthony Reyes
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Earlier this week, the White House announced the finalists for the President’s 2012 Securing Americans Value and Efficiency (SAVE) Award and one of them is a Treasury employee who works as an accountant for the Internal Revenue Service.
Posted in: Management and Budget
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