by Ellen Garrison | Mar 10, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Monday asked schools to teach young Americans about financial literacy, saying too many Millennials don’t know how to make good financial decisions. At a public meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial...
by Vesko Cholakov | Feb 6, 2014 | Health & Science, National Security
WASHINGTON — Financial regulators are struggling in the face of a changing environment – sophisticated cyber threats and inadequate safeguards prescribed by the Dodd-Frank Act, witnesses said at a Senate hearing Thursday. “The banking industry has existing...
by Shirley Li | Feb 14, 2012 | Business
WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner fought a budget battle Tuesday, defending and explaining President Barack Obama’s spending plan before the Senate Finance Committee. From deflecting blunt questioning by Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., to verbally tussling with...