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What Others Are Saying About the Small Business Lending Fund

By: Anthony Reyes
Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Treasury’s new report about the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) released this week has been making news across the country.​ 
Posted in: Small Business

Treasury’s Manal Corwin Recognized As Finalist for 2012 Tax Notes Person of the Year

By: Anthony Reyes
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

​Manal Corwin, Treasury’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs, was recognized as one of ten finalists in consideration to be named the 2012 Tax Notes Person of the Year. 
Posted in: Tax Policy

VIDEO: White Board: What's in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

By: Anthony Reyes
Monday, January 07, 2013

​The latest video in the "White House White Board" online series presents Brian Deese, the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, explaining what the new agreement to extend tax cuts for the middle class means for the economy and how it will help meet President Obama's key economic priorities.​
Posted in: Tax Policy

Treasury Exceeds Small Business Contracting Goals for Second Year in a Row

By: Nani Coloretti
Monday, January 07, 2013

​Treasury understands that small businesses are a backbone of the economy, and we strive each year to increase available opportunities to work with small businesses in every facet of Treasury business.  For the second year in a row, Treasury has outpaced its goals for small business contracting.​
Posted in: Management and Budget

Treasurer Rios Visits Classrooms of “Save Out Loud” Contest Winners

By: Anthony Reyes
Thursday, January 03, 2013

​Following a competition throughout the fall, the Treasury Department’s Ready.Save.Grow campaign recently named the four Grand Prize Winners of its nationwide “Save Out Loud” Contest, which captured savings stories from students and families across the country.
Posted in: Bureau of Public Debt

American Taxpayer Relief Act Reduces Deficits by $737 Billion

By: Jeff Zients
Wednesday, January 02, 2013

​Compared to “current policy” and based on estimates from the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation – Congress’s official score-keeping bodies – we can see that H.R. 8, the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012,”​ would reduce the deficit by $737 billion. 
Posted in: Bugdet Management

Secretary Geithner Sends Debt Limit Letter to Congress

By: Matt Anderson
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

​Today, Secretary Geithner sent the following letter to Congress regarding the debt limit.
Posted in: Debt Management

Small TARP Investment, Big Impact for a Local Community

By: Timothy Massad
Friday, December 21, 2012

​On Wednesday, most of the public attention on the TARP program was focused on Treasury’s announcement that it intends to fully exit its investment in General Motors within the next 12-15 months.
Posted in: Financial Stability

OFR Working Paper Explores Innovative Models for Analyzing Threats to Financial Stability

By: Jonathan Sokobin
Friday, December 21, 2012

​How might the dynamics of a flock of birds in flight, a group of drivers in a traffic jam, or a panicked crowd of stampeding people inform our analysis of threats to financial stability?
Posted in: Financial Research

Prioritizing Economic Growth in Native Communities

By: Kimberly Beauman
Friday, December 21, 2012

Earlier this month, Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal S. Wolin spoke at the White House Tribal Nations Conference to outline Treasury’s initiatives to support the economic development of Native Communities across the nation. One program highlighted by Deputy Secretary Wolin was the Native Initiatives, which has already helped many communities, and is administered by the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund).​
Posted in: Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
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