Donald Trump Officially Trying To Kill Larry Kudlow
The president is looking to hurt Kuddle's BFF, King Dollar.
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A Treasury Secretary Walks Into A Bar Full Of Central Bankers...
No, he walked INTO the bar...goddamn Transition shades.
Trump Mulling Over Selecting Mnuchin Crony To Run OCC In Obvious Bid To Make Elizabeth Warren Hulk The Fuck Out
After watching Mnuchin defy logic, POTUS asks for "More!"
If Your Definition Of Robo-Signing Is ‘Signed By A Literal Robot’ Then No, Mnuchin Didn't Lie To Congress
Trump's Treasury pick wants Democrats to stop appropriated robot culture.
The Viola Trend: Other Sports Owners For Trump's Cabinet
Secretary of Agriculture James Dolan would have us broke and starving by summer!
Fed Governor Tarullo To Mnuchin: Actually, Dodd-Frank Is Good
Maybe if he'd bought a bank at the height of the financial crisis Tarullo could see where Mnuchin was coming from.
Lazy Carl Icahn Will Not Answer Call To Serve At The Pleasure of President Trump
It's hard out there for a fake Presidential candidate compiling his fantasy cabinet.
Treasury Set to Let it Ride (On Treasuries?)
When you need more and more money from an ever-larger group of lenders, you can't let a little thing like the LIBOR scandal stop you. And the Treasury Department (soon to be under new management?) isn't, insisting that it will offer its first-ever floating-rate bonds within the next year.
Blanche Lincoln's Derivatives Provision All But Dead Now
Blanche Lincoln’s famed derivatives legislation, which would basically prevent any big bank from ever trading CDS again, has already been chastised by Barney Frank. Now, a senior Treasury official has essentially delivered another blow to the Lincoln legislation.
TARP Cost Reduced by $11.4 Billion, Thanks Vikram
The Treasury Department said on Friday that it has lowered its estimate of the projected cost of the Troubled Asset Release Program by $11.4 billion to $105.4 billion.