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AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Bailout brings massive hiring, oversight challenges
October 10, 2008 Passage of the Wall Street rescue package is not the beginning of the end of Washington's role in the financial crisis; it is merely the end of the beginning. Congress has passed a vision of how the nation recovers. Now the Treasury Department has to implement it. "The New Deal ...
State Department
June 28, 2001 Established: 1789 Address: 2201 C St. NW, Washington, DC 20520 Phone: 202-647-4000 2001 Budget:: $8 billion Employment:: 19,522 Web Site: www.state.gov Functions: The State Department is responsible for the making and execution of American foreign policy. The department conveys U.S. foreign policy to foreign governments and to international organizations; manages ...
Global coordinator
March 5, 2001 Deputy National Security Advisor Integrating America's global economic policies with more-traditional foreign policy (especially national security concerns) has become an increasingly weighty challenge for Washington policy-makers. More and more of the international messes that land on the White House doorstep -- such as the 1997 Asian financial crisis -- involve ...
Search for Treasury Secretary narrows to three names
December 15, 2000 Members of President-elect Bush's economic team today said the choice for Treasury secretary is down to three names: William McDonough, current head of the New York Federal Reserve; John Hennessy, head of Credit Suisse First Boston's equity division; and Walter Shipley, retired Chase Manhattan chairman. "If they need a Democrat, ...
