New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, in testimony to the House of Representatives finance committee, laid the blame at the feet of federal regulators and ratings agencies, who failed to stop the growth of the subprime mortgage bubble before it got out of control.
There will be no PMQs, so the next business will be a Ten Minute Rule Bill from Labour's Meg Munn to allow schools to register as Co-Ops (Industrial Provident Societies) and then it's on to committee of the whole House consideration of the Finance Bill.
In 1995, the London finance house of Barings collapsed after huge losses run up in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson.
Afshin Nabavi, head of trading at trading house MKS Finance, said gold prices should continue to rise, although stay in a range.
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At a minimum, Congress for the first time in three decades will produce fundamental rewrites of our tax code: The House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees will offer two visions of tax reform.
How come the new chairman of Turkey's largest state bank, Ziraat, is Zeki Sayin, who worked under Mr Erdogan during his days as mayor of Istanbul, and later became head of an Islamic finance house?
There appears to be some support for gold at the lower levels, said Afshin Nabavi, head of trading at trading house MKS Finance, who also expects gold to trade in the current range and test the upper boundaries.
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They have the power and moxie to get the imprimatur of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees on tax reform this year.
The court was told by Jonathan Smith, a finance office at the House of Lords, that 90% of peers claimed expenses and of that 90%, 85% claimed the maximum amount.
In place of stock trading for a finance house he was now teaching stock trading, in classes he had organised and marketed via Eventbrite.
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Finance Minister and Leader of the House Jane Hutt AM supported the committee's recommendations to take forward a framework for action across Wales.
Finance Minister and Leader of the House Jane Hutt AM faced AMs questions on issues relating to her ministerial department, on 23 November 2011.
Kim escaped jail time at his March 9 sentencing for violations of federal campaign finance law, but he still awaits the verdict of two other juries: his House colleagues and the voters of California's 41st District.
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About one-in-five people use these kinds of mechanisms to finance everything from buying a house to cashing their checks.
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In a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Cable announced a range of new finance and insurance products as part of a Trade and Investment White Paper.
Representative Timothy Wirth (D-Colo.), head of the House subcommittee on telecommunications, consumer protection and finance, points out that the SEC staff actually has decreased by 5% in the last five years as financial products have mushroomed.
Someone should inform the White House that tax hikes on a shrinking group of smokers to finance payments to a growing number of beneficiaries is not a healthy fiscal strategy, as the states have found out by spending the proceeds of the Medicaid tobacco settlement.
The influence of moderate Republicans in the House has been highlighted in recent weeks as they joined Democrats in pushing for campaign finance reform and a patients' of bill of rights.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said last week the Finance Committee negotiators needed more time to complete their compromise agreement, while House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland said Monday that a vote won't happen by the end of the week, when the chamber is scheduled to break until after Labor Day.
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One answer, from iconoclasts such as Mitch McConnell, the Republican senator from Kentucky, and Newt Gingrich, the Republican speaker of the House (which has yet to look at campaign finance), is to argue for a spending free-for-all, on the ground that politicians will otherwise have to be millionaires, able to spend their own money to any limit in order to get elected.
The cider tax rise was included in the government's Finance Bill, which was eventually passed by the House of Commons on Wednesday.
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, predicted Sunday there would be a House vote on campaign finance reform no later than "the middle of February, " and he predicted victory.
And their thought on that is that they have more open space even though they have big houses, and that someone who maybe doesn't have quite as deep a pocket could build a smaller house in the county and help finance it by selling away some of these extra square footage.
The change is included in the Local Government Finance Bill, which received its third reading in the House of Lords on Monday.
Democrats have for months decried the House campaign finance probe as partisan, overly broad, unproductive and duplicative of one recently completed by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
The Senate Finance Committee is also working on a bill, and three House of Representatives committees have published a joint proposal.
And according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance information, the White House is traditionally the biggest government supplier of lobbyists.
Now he's not gone, but he had to step aside as the House majority leader when he was indicted in Texas on charges of violating state campaign finance laws.
The House returns Tuesday for an ambitious week's schedule that will include consideration of campaign finance reform.
Campaign finance reform was derailed in the House on Thursday when lawmakers shelved consideration of the Shays-Meehan bill -- similar to the McCain-Feingold legislation passed by the Senate -- through a procedural vote.
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