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FAST THINKING: The Fed caps its most important year ever Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council JUST IN We’re kicking off this edition with a financial term: “quantitative easing,” or QE. It’s what the US Federal Reserve does when it buys up assets like Treasury bonds to inject funds into the economy, lowering borrowing costs and boosting consumer and government spending. This was more crucial than ev...

Lawrences Oread Hotel, left, and Eldridge Hotel, right, are pictured along with Thomas Fritzel, center. Certain parts of Lawrence love a good Thomas Fritzel question. My phone started ringing after The Kansas City Star earlier this month published an article raising questions about the propriety of a $9 million federally backed, pandemic-related loan that was given to a little-known company tied to the Fritzel family. I’ve been looking into the issue too. The Star’s article is definitely i...

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Testimony on: Small Business in Crisis: The 2020 Paycheck Protection Program and Its Future Douglas Holtz-Eakin United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship *The views expressed here are my own and not those of the American Action Forum. I thank Thomas Wade for his insight and assistance. Chairman Rubio, Ranking Member Cardin, and members of the Committee, thank you for the privilege of appearing today to share my views at this hearing titled “Small Business in Crisis...

Ending the Fed’s Emergency Lending Facilities: Mnuchin v. Waters SHARE On November 19, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that he would sunset five of the Federal Reserves emergency lending programs at year-end: the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility, Secondary Market CCF, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Main Street Lending Program, and Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). His decision, expressed in a letter to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, is based on the claim...

The Treasury secretary was peppered with questions from Democrats and Republicans about his decision-making in extending loans and programs.

Basically arguing that wages havent gone up in the cost of education has gone up, but i want to ask you about one thing, i did hear from a mom, a friend of mine and she said something that has hurt her two children who needed student loans is that the interest rate is so high that its gobbling up their other income to try to keep up the student loans and its like they are in a race where the guy behind them is faster. >> the interest rates on student loans were spent in the same law that created...

There were no craft breweries. even good beer drinkers like mike here, were a little skeptical, but today, theres 2500 of us. its still quite small, but that means we have room to grow and today, americans are appreciating good beer and were creating a beer culture in the u.s. in the same way that a wine culture grew up 25 years ago. >> thats great. >> i got to tell you, even you know, the success of the company, but fwifing back to smaller companies through the lending program, thanks to you. >...

If the stafford loan rate doubles this year, it will make college more senseless next year and add to my overall debt level. that money could be used instead toward a dream of under a graduate degree and making sure education is a right and not a privilege in america. >> the lending program is up to debate of how much we will charge interest to our poorest students. college tuition may be rising faster than salaries that the students actually earn after graduation, and that is if they can even f...

scheme. theyre accused of taking money to allow drug couriers to pass through a los angeles international airport. they received as much as $2,400 for looking the other way as suitcases of cocaine and other drugs passed through the x-ray machines. thousands of postal workers around the country breathing a sigh of relief after the senate passed a plan to save the u.s. postal service as well as their jobs. the measure could keep 100 mail processing plants from being shut down or consol...