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Foreign Affairs
March 13, 2018
After a year of complaining about the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), U.S. President Donald Trump finally resorted to threats. In January, he gave Congress and Europe an ultimatum: if they did not fix what he considered the agreement's shortcomingsÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 9, 2018
The process got bumpy after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned North Korean trading companies, as well as Banco Delta Asia, which it accused of ... It didn't seem like the U.S. was acting in good faith,” Frank Aum, a former senior adviser on North Korea in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, who is now at theÃâà...
Department of Defense
February 16, 2018
In doing so, they reduced the administrative burden to both industry and the government and limited the Department's exposure to certain financial risks, ensuring the use of unliquidated funds from completed contracts before the funds could be canceled and returned to the Department of the Treasury.
New York Times
November 29, 2017
9, Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary, 13. 10, Department of Agriculture, Office of .... 160, Department of the Treasury, Terrorism Insurance Program, 3. 161, Department of the Treasury, GSE Mortgage-backed Securities Purchase Program Account, 2. 162, Department of the Treasury, GrantsÃâà...
Daily Reckoning
September 18, 2017
A war between the U.S. and North Korea is not the worst result for China because it bleeds the U.S., Japan and South Korea, who are rivals for dominance in East Asia. Finally, Chinese behavior is governed by “face.” By the U.S. Treasury making such a public declaration, China cannot back down withoutÃâà...
The White House (blog)
September 15, 2017
President Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key positions in his Administration: Irwin Steven Goldstein of New York to be the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Department of State. Mr. Goldstein has been a Senior Vice President at BP Global Solutions,Ãâà...
Daily Reckoning
August 23, 2017
One of the little-known items on the Fed's balance sheet is a vital asset it received from the U.S. Treasury a long time ago… During the Great Depression, in 1933, President Roosevelt issued an executive order requiring anyone with gold to surrender it to a Federal Reserve bank or any member bank of theÃâà...
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