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Defense official says Pentagon hid unspent funds in accounts
The Pentagon has hidden at least $1.4 billion in other agencies' accounts instead of returning unspent money to the U.S. Treasury, the Defense Department's internal watchdog told Congress Wednesday. http://www.usatoday.com/ news/washington/2007-01-17 -pentagon-funds_x.htm Fr om... ...
Iraq War Costs Going Through Stratosphere
The cost of the Iraq War in addition to costing thousands of American and Iraqi lives is bleeding the American treasury at dangerous levels. http://www.btimes .com/News/article/article. asp?NewsID=75516&sID=35 From... ...
US names state-owned Iranian bank as weapons proliferator
The US Treasury Department listed the Iranian state-owned Bank "Sepah" as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction, and said a ban on all transactions between the bank and US businesses is in effect. http://www.kuna.n et.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Lang uage=en&DSNO=940878 From ... ...
Poor Getting Poorer As Economy Grows
Why, in a country where the economy has grown by leaps and bounds and social spending has increased steadily for decades, do the richest Costa Ricans keep getting richer and the poorest 20% keep slipping... ...
In China's pocket
Boston Globe by Robert Kuttner 12/16/06 The high-profile mission to China of key administration economic officials looks like another predictable fizzle. The delegation, headed by Treasury Secretary... ...
U.S., China Clash on Currency
U.S. and Chinese leaders clashed publicly on the opening day of strategic economic talks, with Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. pushing China to revalue its currency and Chinese Vice Premier Wu... ...
Homeland Security Creates Terrorism Score for Travelers
What's your terrorism quotient? U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents will know with a newly announced Automated Targeting System, a data mining system which will use the Treasury's watch list (.pdf),... ...
'Almost too late' to stop a global catastrophe
By Andy McSmith Published: 30 October 2006 http://news.independent. co.uk/environment/article1 940796.ece The possibility of avoiding a global catastrophe is "already almost out of reach", Sir Nicholas... ...
Millions Stolen From Iraq's Treasury
More than half a billion dollars earmarked to fight the insurgency in Iraq was stolen by people the U.S. had entrusted to run the country's Ministry of Defense before the 2005 elections, according to Iraqi... ...
Price of a broken deal
In a deal brokered by China on September 19 2005, Kim Jong-il's regime pledged to give up its atomic weapons, abandon existing nuclear programmes and rejoin the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that... ...