The Office of Management and Budget coordinates estimates for purposes of producing the budget and also publishes its own list of tax expenditures (which it gets from the Treasury).
International bank regulators gave a second dangerous incentive to banks to lend to these countries, by classifying the debt as a close proxy for money for liquidity-management purposes (or to give protection against the risk of a bank run).
Mr Anschutz was quick to spot the potential for using stadiums for non-sporting purposes, and has built up a music-management arm of AEG which represents stars such as Justin Bieber and Jennifer Lopez.
Funds with at least a billion dollars under management that are headquartered there (and often domiciled offshore in places like the Cayman Islands for tax and regulatory purposes) represented 46.6% of global assets managed by similarly sized funds in January of this year.