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  • WH Mum on Possible Terminal Snooping

    Published May 13, 2013

    The Obama Administration declined to comment on whether Bloomberg News reporters may have snooped on White House officials who use the financial terminals and services. 

  • House Republican Pushes Back at IMF Gas Tax Study

    Published March 28, 2013

    The top House Republican on energy policy criticized a new IMF proposal to raise gas taxes in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and fix problems like budget deficits. 

  • General Motors Will Not Increase CEO Pay

    Published February 26, 2013

    General Motors said Tuesday it does not plan to increase its CEO’s pay in 2013, contradicting sources claiming it did.

  • GM, Ally Seeking Big Pay Packages for CEOs

    Published February 25, 2013

    General Motors and its former finance company, Ally Financial, are again seeking large pay packages for top executives, though the companies have not fully repaid their taxpayer bailouts, according to documents obtained by FOX Business.  

  • House Committee Demands QE Documents

    Published February 20, 2013

    In a potential new line of attack on the Fed’s easy money policies, a House oversight subcommittee is demanding the central bank turn over documents and studies relating to the eventual sales of debt securities in its $3 trillion portfolio.

  • Climate Change Tops List of Govt. Programs Vulnerable to Waste

    Published February 14, 2013

    The Government Accountability Office has added two big government operations to its latest "high risk list" for being vulnerable for waste, fraud, abuse, inefficiency and mismanagement. 

  • Fed Overseer at Odds with Bernanke Over Debt Ceiling

    Published January 15, 2013

    Rep. John Campbell, the new Republican chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve said Tuesday he “couldn’t disagree more” with the Fed chief Ben Bernanke’s desire to eliminate the debt ceiling. 

  • Senate Casts Wide Net in Chase Probe

    Published December 03, 2012

    A Senate probe of $5.8 billion trading losses at J.P. Morgan Chase could become a headache in Washington for the bank as evidenced by the more than 80 people questioned to this point. 

  • White House Meets With Small-Business Owners

    Published November 26, 2012

    A group of small business owners will meet with White House economic aides this afternoon to discuss the fiscal cliff and the economy, FOX Business has learned.

  • Top Congressional Committee May Hold Hearing on Jobs Report

    Published October 11, 2012

    The chairman of a top oversight committee in Congress said late Wednesday he is interested in holding hearings on last Friday’s September jobs report, which showed an unexpected sharp drop in the unemployment rate.