More reassuring to Spanish taxpayers is Maiden Lane, a vehicle created by the New York Federal Reserve to house assets owned by Bear Stearns and AIG that have turned out to be less toxic than expected.
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If a house does not reach its reserve price, the vendors may negotiate with the highest bidders afterwards.
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In recent testimony before the US House of Representatives, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke stated that if the national debt ceiling were not raised by the August deadline, the US Government would either have to default on some of its debt or reduce spending by 40 percent .
Some residents were allowed to purchase land on a state reserve and a model house was built as part of a program to teach the residents to help themselves.
In other government news, the Federal Reserve is expected to announce a decision on interest rates, the Commerce Department will release new homes sales data for December, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will testify at a House hearing regarding AIG and the Federal Reserve.
Like Ron Paul, Virgil Goode has long supported a bill to audit the Federal Reserve, which recently cleared the House.
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DeLauro also hinted that the administration might consider releasing product from the 571-million barrel Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a suggestion the White House is certain to refuse outright.
Democrats proposed to house a consumer financial protection agency inside the Federal Reserve, but with independent authority.
The White House could also urge Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve to get more serious about fighting inflation by mopping up some of the excess liquidity that he and predecessor Alan Greenspan spawned.
U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will testify before the House Financial Services Committee this morning for round two of his semiannual testimony.
There was some speculation yesterday that the the government was set to release reserves from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), but the White House later denied it.
Many non-vintage champagnes--many delicious ones--are essentially "vintage" wines in disguise, made almost entirely from lesser lots of current harvests, with a modest lick of older, reserve wine to steer the blend toward the house style.
In testimony before the House Budget Committee Feb. 9, 2011, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke blew the whistle on these projections when he endorsed large spending reductions and fessed up that unless Congress cuts spending dramatically there is no way to grow our way out of a looming fiscal crisis of the welfare state.
President Obama will meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today, according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
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The chairman of the Council that prepared that report was Ben Bernanke, the current Federal Reserve Chairman who now projects (along with the White House) that the economy will rebound in 2008.
Finally, House Republicans should pass legislation removing the discretionary monetary policy powers of the Federal Reserve, mandating it to conduct monetary policy in accordance with a price rule following market prices for gold, silver, oil and other commodities.
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In testimony last Thursday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Jonathan Adler of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute argue that the IRS has done exactly that.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke faced off with Republican Representative Paul Ryan, who now heads the House Budget Committee, on Wednesday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Ber-nanke is as blind on this as are Treasury Chief Timothy Geithner and White House economic czar Larry Summers.
U.S. stocks remain strong in anticipation that the Federal Reserve will announce the terms of QE2 the day after the Republicans are expected to re-take the House of Representatives.
U.S. stocks have been strong in anticipation that the Federal Reserve will announce the terms of QE2 the day after the Republicans are expected to re-take the House of Representatives.
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