Blair predicted that his successor, British Treasury Chief Gordon Brown, would maintain the special relationship between the countries.
The British Treasury may yet take a hand in detailing the bonus payout structure at RBS for many years to come.
The British Treasury has its own list of the top 50 full-time MBA programs from around the world, with Harvard, Columbia, Wharton and IMD leading the way.
Wales, by comparison, has limited tax and borrowing capabilities, and the money it gets each year to fulfill its spending needs comes automatically from the British treasury.
Faced by imminent financial collapse, as the British Treasury saw it, on November 7th Eden surrendered to American demands and stopped the operation, with his troops stranded half way down the canal.
As well as trying to come up with growth-enhancing measures, British treasury chief George Osborne will be under pressure to plug a hole in the public finances after an auction of the next generation of mobile phone licenses reaped less than anticipated.
The yields on ten-year Treasury bonds and British gilts have both risen by more than half a percentage point since late November.
First, privatisation in any form feels a fairly remote prospect at the moment, with the future structure of British banking yet to be decided by the Treasury, subject to final recommendations from the Independent Commission on Banking in September.
In Britain, Treasury chief Alistair Darling said deposits of British savers with Icesave, the online arm of Landsbanki, the bank nationalized by the Icelandic government on Tuesday.
Merkel's government did the world an additional favor in 2009, amid the financial crisis, by rejecting calls from the International Monetary Fund, then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President Obama, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the same dominant Keynesian consensus to join the global spending party.
When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British.
He presented the paper to Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, during talks on the margin of the British Irish Council meeting in London.
It was the SPD that pushed through the treaty revision that created the European Finance Funding Office (fondly referred to in the British press as "EffOff"), effectively a European Treasury Department to be based in Vienna.
Britain's Treasury will put forward its plan for a tax on British banks in a budget in June, which is when European finance ministers will debate the commission's scheme.
Before 1914, this was mostly British government bonds, and after 1944 it was U.S. Treasury bonds.
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First Row (L-R): Finance Minister of Germany Jorg Asmussen, Finance Minister of Italy Giulio Tremonti, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, French Finance Minister Christine Lagard, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and Luxembourg Prime Minister and chairman of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker.
The project, paid by the Treasury's capital modernisation fund, will be managed by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency.
This, according to Treasury sources, would make it impossible for the FPC to force British banks to hold more capital, as a protection against losses and to slow down lending, as and when the FPC spots a new bubble, such as a renewed and worrying boom in the housing market.
Former Treasury Deputy investigator Patrick Jost now consults on money laundering issues for the British firm Risk Global.
The Treasury, along with governments of both stripes, believed that the old British Rail was run more in the interests of employees than of customers, and so was loth to stump up more money.
The Treasury said it could not currently put a figure on the cost of compensating British troops and civil servants in Cyprus.
Finally, it is worth remembering that the Bank of England and HM Treasury have announced two new schemes to provide copious amounts of cheap loans to British banks, which can be seen as insurance against the downgrades leading to any kind of renewed credit crunch (see this blog for more on all this).
The Treasury's best guess is that the long-run effect on trade of British membership would be towards the top of its 5-50% range.
Warren questioned senior Treasury Department officials Thursday about why there was no criminal prosecution for alleged money laundering by British bank HSBC and no effort to shut it down.
Lord Dykes said he was concerned that the Treasury, "hardly known for its huge competence in guiding the ever-faltering British economy in recent decades", did not know the true extent of the problem.
Treasury, he said, was in advanced planning for offshore wind farms to tap into the British and Irish power grids via undersea cables.
Asked by CNN about the U.S. downgrade, the U.K. Treasury instead pointed to the fact Britain's AAA credit rating had been reaffirmed after the British government took steps to deal with the country's debts.
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