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Panel sets fees for large firms

WASHINGTON - Taking aim at Wall Street and the nation’s central bank, a key House committee voted yesterday to assess upfront fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, Boston Globe,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  Barack Obama,  Congressional Black Caucus,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Federal Reserve

House panel sets fees for big firms

WASHINGTON — The House Financial Services Committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial institutions to cover the costs of failure by their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the normally secretive Federal Reserve. of ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, Monterey County Herald,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  Congressional Black Caucus,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  Federal Reserve

US Panel sets fees for big firms, aims to slow Fed

Taking aim at Wall Street and the U.S. central bank, an important House committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the secretive Federal ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, eTaiwan News,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  Congressional Black Caucus,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

Fees for finance institutions advance

WASHINGTON - The House Financial Services Committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial institutions to cover the costs of failure by their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the normally secretive Federal Reserve. In a ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, AZ Central.com,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  Congressional Black Caucus,  Federal Reserve,  Barney Frank,  U.S. Senate

Panel sets fees for big firms, aims to rein in Fed

WASHINGTON - The House Financial Services Committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial institutions to cover the costs of failure by their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the normally secretive Federal Reserve. ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  Congressional Black Caucus,  Barack Obama,  Timothy F. Geithner,  Federal Reserve

House panel: Wall Street must prepay for failures

The House Financial Services Committee has voted to assess fees on Wall Street firms and other large companies to pay in advance for the costs of dismantling failing nonbank financial institutions. The money would be paid into a $150 billion ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, TheNewsTribune.com,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.,  Timothy F. Geithner

Panel: US can dismantle 'too big to fail' firms

WASHINGTON - A House committee voted Wednesday to give the government the right to dismantle financial firms that are so big, interconnected and leveraged that they could harm the economy, even if they are healthy. ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  Paul Kanjorski,  European Union

Why 10 per cent jobless rate is Obama's new world

F or months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 per cent. A year after his election Obama finds it increasingly difficult to blame the sour economy on George W. ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, Globe and Mail,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Republican National Committee,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party

Ten percent jobless is Obama's new world

For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 percent. A year after his election Obama finds it increasingly difficult to blame the sour economy on ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, Taiwan News,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Republican National Committee,  U.S. Congress,  White House

Analysis: 10 percent jobless is Obama's new world

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 percent. A year after his election Obama finds it increasingly difficult to blame the sour ...

From JIM KUHNHENN, Buffalo News,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Republican National Committee,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party

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