Finance

On 21 July 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Dodd-Frank Act is intended to s...

Issuing floating rate notes (FRN) is likely to help the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) meet its goals to borrow at the lowest cost over time...

The United States is facing fundamental budgetary challenges. Federal debt held by the public exceeds 70 percent of the nation''s annual output or ...

Multiemployer pension plans, created by collective bargaining agreements including more than one employer, cover more than 10 million workers and r...

Since 1997, education tax benefits have become an increasingly important component of federal higher education policy. Fourteen tax benefits are cu...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are charted by Congress as government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to provide liquidity in the mortgage market and promo...

The U.S. government uses federal credit (direct loans and loan guarantees) to allocate capital to a range of areas including home ownership, studen...

Grants are a form of federal assistance consisting of payments in cash or in kind for a specified purpose and they represent an important tool for ...

This book provides background and analysis of the premiums charged by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), which is a government-owned ...

During the 2007-09 financial crisis, the federal government''s actions to stabilize the financial system provided funding support and other benefit...

While public-private partnerships (PPPs) have long been used to manage real property, congressional interest in PPPs has recently increased due to ...

This book provides an overview of select programs using federal funds with a focus on: the Global Security Contingency Fund (GSCF); the history, ad...

Shadow banking refers to financial firms and activities that perform similar functions to those of depository banks. Although the term is used to d...

The federal tax code classifies state and local bonds as either governmental bonds or private activity bonds. Governmental bonds are for projects t...

Even though real estate and construction issues are interconnected, they are often treated as if they were not. There is, therefore, the need for r...

The federal crop insurance program began in 1938 when Congress authorized the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. The current program, which is adm...

Pension advances and pension investments are products that, while based on or related to pension benefits, are generally distinct from the pensions...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The Way the Money Goes traces out what happened to the UK's fiscal constitution - the framework for planning and controlling public spending - unde...