Category Archives: Government

“Effort to expand audits of Fed picks up steam in Senate”

S. AMDT 3738, an amendment with strong similarities to S. 604 "Audit the Fed" is getting a lot of traction in the Senate.
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Dodd’s S. 3217 Guarantees Fed Secrecy

Dodd's bill would not allow the GAO to look into the Fed's massive purchase of toxic assets, its hundreds of billions in foreign currency swaps with other central banks or its open market operations, among other restrictions.
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Big Banks to Back Fed Secrecy

Bloomberg reports that the biggest U.S. banks have allied themselves with Federal Reserve secrecy.
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