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...dollar-based securities that carried slightly higher interest rates than boring old U.S. Treasury securities. A big reason the Fed and Treasury felt compelled to bail out Fannie and Freddie was the fear that if they didn't, foreigners wouldn't continue funding our trade and federal-budget deficits...
...efforts in this area simply fall short. First, OCS lacks resources. The University should allocate more funds to OCS so that it can expand its staff, include more specialists in more sectors of the job market, give students more one-on-one attention, and have a larger working budget...
...common definition of pork - could be a political liability. As a procedural matter, it makes sense to stop Representatives from slipping pet projects into law, although some legislators argue that earmarking is a useful check on executive power, and that earmarks are just a tiny sliver of the federal budget. As a moral matter, McCain's heresy on pork has made him all the right enemies, including shameless Republican porkers like Ted Stevens of Alaska; I was especially sympathetic to McCain's unpopular stand blaming the Minnesota bridge collapse on highway pork, because I took the same position...
...HIV/AIDs Ministry and Youngstown's sewage overflow project. When it comes to sewage overflows, most Youngstown residents probably agree with what Palin told Gibson: "It's not inappropriate for a mayor or a governor to request and work with their Congressmen, their Congresswomen, to plug into the federal budget - along with every other state - a share of the federal budget for infrastructure...
...governmental pressure led top Harvard officials to encourage deans to come up with programs to up spending through the use of strategic payouts and decapitalizations by which schools can receive additional money from the president and the Harvard Corporation, which is responsible for setting the University’s budget. “One of the things we’ve asked them to do is to up the spending rate and try to identify priorities,” University President Drew G. Faust said last spring. “So what we’ve been talking about...