"We hope the Federal Reserve acts quickly to end this liquidity crisis before it gets worse, " says Paul Miller, an analyst at Friedman Billings Ramsey.
Federal Reserve monetary policy acts as an economic traffic cop.
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Non-Marylanders will have to keep their fingers crossed that either other states pass similar laws or that Congress acts on the federal level.
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Let me explain: The plain truth is that no federal student loan borrower who acts in good faith to repay should ever have to default, given their current rights to make the debt more manageable.
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Unless Congress acts quickly, the nasty federal estate tax comes back from the dead with a vengeance in 2011 for all taxpayers.
Federal budget cuts that eliminated military flying acts triggered the cancellation of dozens of air shows, meaning lost income for performers, air show announcers, concessionaires, vendors and others who depend on air shows and the millions of spectators.
The plaintiffs sued for deceptive acts and practices under the federal Consumer Protection Act, New York's General Business Law and New York City's Administrative Code, charging that McDonald's negligently sold food high in cholesterol and fat, and failed to warn about the dangers.
State and federal dollars are wrapped up in investigating the acts of adults who had the opportunity to make this stop.
The Federal Reserve System, reconfigured by the Banking Acts of 1933 and 1935, is able to act quickly to prevent a high-finance crisis from becoming a credit-card crunch.
Under U.S. law, companies convicted of certain criminal acts can be debarred from contracting with the federal government.
At the time Congress enacted RICO, federal prosecutors had the tools to prosecute individual gangsters for particular acts they committed.
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This principle becomes particularly important when the federal definition of illegal conduct is one that is simply not comprehensible and acts more as a trap than as a guideline.
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The warrants, based on charges of bribery, came from Adolfo Bagnasco, the flamboyant federal judge who heads the investigation (and, under Argentina's judicial system, acts as prosecutor too).
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