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Information Today
March 31, 2015
Barbie E. Keiser |
Sunshine Week 2015: Open Government Is Good Government "Sunshine Week is a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information," according to the event's About page.   |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The $23.7 Trillion Confusion How much are taxpayers really on the hook for? Tens of trillions less than some expect. |
The Motley Fool
February 19, 2009
Christopher Barker |
$8.6 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total potential outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2010
Russ Krull |
The Government: Worst Investor Ever? Here's a closer look at the U.S. Treasury's recent investments. |
Information Today
August 19, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Revising FOIA for Improved Access to Government Information Last year, Congress introduced a bill that is now known as the FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014. This law would allow for easier information requests and faster receipt. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2009
Christopher Barker |
$10.2 Trillion? A Mere Drop in the Bucket The tally zooms out to include monies under serious consideration for future outlays. |
Information Today
October 18, 2012 |
New FOIAonline Platform Launched The National Archives and Records Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Commerce have partnered to develop an online system aimed at expanding public access to information requested under the Freedom of Information Act |
Information Today
December 9, 2014
George H. Pike |
FOIA Reform Gets Key Senate Endorsement The Senate's FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 (and the House's similar bill) seeks to move the administration's "presumption of openness" from mere encouragement to federal law. |
The Motley Fool
November 26, 2008
Christopher Barker |
$3.9 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the unfathomable scale of the crisis in context. |
National Defense
June 2009
D'Agostino & Belofsky |
FOIA: Protect Your Competitive Information Learn how to protect proprietary knowledge in your company against Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2008
Morgan Housel |
What Part of the Bailout Plan Did You Miss? Picking apart the new plan. |
Information Today
March 24, 2011
Peggy Garvin |
FOIA.gov: A Little Bit of Sunshine To mark Sunshine Week each year, newspapers around the U.S. carry articles and editorials making the case for our national Freedom of Information Act and local equivalents. |
Registered Rep.
February 24, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
News Roundup: Obama Spends to Save, Bernanke States the Obvious and AIG says, "Help," Again. Someone should let the stock market in on the secret to economic recovery; investors clearly haven't been too psyched about Treasury's plan. |
Finance & Development
December 2010 |
Stimulus Worked Without the quick and massive policy response, the Great Recession might still plague the United States. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2009
Morgan Housel |
We're From the Government, and We're Here to Help This week could bring the most government intervention into the economy we've ever seen. Here's what to look for. |
Information Today
October 15, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
New Open Government Tool for Municipalities Transparency in local government just became easier thanks to RecordTrac, a web-based application designed to help cities more efficiently manage, respond to, and track incoming requests for public records. |
BusinessWeek
October 9, 2008 |
Pulling Out the Stops The government has steadily broadened its role to safeguard the economy from the credit crisis. Here are some important milestones. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Rebecca Christie |
TARP Didn't Bust the Bank The much-maligned bailout program made money on most Wall Street investments and cost less than expected. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Bailout Cost Plummets: Good News? It seems the bailouts taxpayers ponied up to save the financial system are going to cost a lot less than we thought. |
CFO
January 1, 2009
Scott Leibs |
The Year That Was A look back at the lows and ultra-lows of an all-too-historic year. |
Reason
June 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
The Age of Debt Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility" but delivers the opposite. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Will the Government Destroy American Capitalism? The law of unintended consequences is still stronger than any bailout package or regulation, and the more strongly the government intervenes, the bigger the problems it may cause. |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2008
Christopher Barker |
$700 Billion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Radley Balko |
Unaccountable Obama: So much for transparency "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," Barack Obama promised during his campaign for the White House. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Fake Plastic Green Shoots While Obamanomics takes a hit, some still call for more stimulus. |
Information Today
March 28, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
Transparency in Government During Sunshine Week 2013 Congress was the focal point of two events during Sunshine Week 2013 (March 10-16). On March 12, the Congressional Transparency Caucus hosted an event examining recent progress concerning the Freedom of Information Act reform. |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2009
Morgan Housel |
4 Things Obama Can Do to Help the Economy The new administration is already up to their ears in suggestions, but here are four more changes and ideas that should be considered to bolster the economy for the long term. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Morgan Housel |
AIG: As Speculative as It Gets AIG is now the market's golden child, up several hundred percent for no apparent reason. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Banks Are Getting a Great Deal at Our Expense! The Treasury may be giving TARP recipients a sweet deal that will keep money out of taxpayers' pockets. |
Information Today
February 2, 2005
Richard Poynder |
Tug of War The U.K. has finally got its own Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), bringing the number of countries with FOI legislation to 59. Are we entering a new era of open government, or will the current spate of legislation prove to be a false dawn? |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2009
Morgan "Foreclosed" Housel |
World's Scariest Stocks: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still give off the impression of being capitalistic, shareholder-owned companies. There's not. |
Reason
January 2009
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel |
The Fed's Binge How the Federal Reserve engineered the most dramatic peacetime experiment in monetary and fiscal stimulus in U.S. history without anyone noticing |
Reason
July 2009 |
Transparency Failure National security or secure lobbying? |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2004
Bill Mann |
Three Financials Behaving Badly With each of these three massive financial institutions, representing the largest banking, mortgage, and insurance participants respectively, the taint of ongoing fraud ought to make minority shareholders awfully nervous. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
Glenn G. Kautt |
SEC Audit, Part Deux An SEC audit is like a visit to the dentist: The anticipation is scarier than the actual event, but a little pain is inescapable. Here is a recount from a financial planning firm's chief compliance officer of his recent audit experience. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG? |
Searcher
January 2006
Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Shhh!!: Keeping Current on Government Secrecy Here is a list of Web sites, blogs, listservs, and newsletters that could help clients needing access to government documents but who might experience difficulty locating that information. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2008 |
The 10 Biggest Stories of 2008 What Bear Stearns' fallout means for investors... The people responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... Why you should care that Lehman went bust... Black Sunday on Wall Street... AIG's failure is so much bigger than Enron's... etc. |
BusinessWeek
April 8, 2010
Mike Dorning |
Why the Obama Plan Is Working Polls say the economy is heading in the wrong direction. Markets say it's back on track. This time, the markets are right. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Farewell, Dear Bailout Almost a year to the day after the Treasury dumped tens of billions into banks, the heart of the $700 billion bank bailout called TARP is coming to an end. How did it do? |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Why Obama's Scared of a Trillion-Dollar Stimulus Package Rather than come out swinging with a trillion-dollar stimulus that might push international confidence in the dollar to a tipping point, President-elect Obama keeps the plan at $775 billion. |
Information Today
December 2, 2014 |
White House Takes New Step Toward Transparency On Nov. 26, President Barack Obama signed the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014, a bill that amends the Presidential Records Act. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Should Taxpayers Cover Detroit's Tab? It seems that plans might already be afoot for the government to lend automakers about $25 billion at approximately one-third the rate they'd normally have to ante up. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
AIG's Bailout -- Take Two AIG's original $85 billion rescue package has been scrapped as the giant insurer's condition continues to deteriorate. The new package is worth almost twice that amount. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Sullum et al. |
Illegal. Illiberal. Ill-Fated.: Why Washington Shouldn't Run Detroit On March 30, 2009, the president of the United States told an anxious nation: "Let me be clear: The United States government has no interest in running G.M." If only he were telling the truth. |
InternetNews
February 23, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Strategic Data Buy For Fox Interactive News Corp's Fox Interactive Media, today announced it acquired Strategic Data Corporation, an interactive advertising technology company. |
BusinessWeek
December 17, 2009 |
The Pay Czar on His Shrinking Empire Diane Brady talks to the Obama Administration's compensation czar Ken Feinberg |
The Motley Fool
October 1, 2009
Morgan Housel |
You Failed Us, Uncle Sam An interview with Stanford economist John Taylor about government intervention in our economy. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Another Stimulus Package? Say It Ain't So. Just months after millions of checks made their way into mailboxes, there's talk of yet another stimulus package. |
