Topic: Gene Sperling

Obama narrows list of possible Summers successors

Reuters US Online Report Top News - 419 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is narrowing its list of possible replacements for outgoing economic adviser Larry Summers to Yale University President Richard Levin, investment banker Roger Altman and U.S. Treasury official Gene Sperling.Levin has met with President Barack Obama to ...
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TARP Jr. Endorsed by House Committee

SeekingAlpha - 627 days ago
Yet, the Obama administration's spokesman Gene Sperling testified in the questions and answer part of the May 18, 2010, hearing that the SBLF would "not cost taxpayers any money. " Mr. Sperling's legal background allows him to blissfully ignore basic concepts such ...

Will latest jobs bill really produce jobs?

AP News - 764 days ago
More spending is certain, more jobs are not in Democrats' new jobs billsWhen the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging ...
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Treasury working on new uses for bailout cash

Reuters US Online Report Politics News - 782 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury is working on " a number of fronts" to use the government's $700 billion bailout fund to boost lending to small businesses, a senior Treasury official said on Wednesday, adding that tax incentives to boost hiring should ...
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Treasury eyes support for community loan funds

Reuters US Online Report Politics News - 836 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is considering ways to provide support through its bailout program to community development loan funds, a senior Treasury official said on Friday.Gene Sperling, counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, said loan fund support could be ...
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Stop Distorting U.S. Spending Priorities into Tax Cuts

SeekingAlpha - 1093 days ago
Consider this 2001 rendition of what happened in the 1990s, from those who know: Martin Feldstein asked Gene Sperling whether Republicans were to blame for the Clinton administration's apparent use of tax expenditures [e.g. That is, Republicans accused Democrats of being the ...