#treasury

In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don't have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#banks #cases #convertible #get #give

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#back #bad #because #bonds #cataclysmic

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity. ↗

— Tim Holden

#back #benefits #coal #development #economic

We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#bonds #conservative #created #fund #includes

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't. ↗

— David Miliband

#british #contribute #economy #either #goal

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. ↗

— Merton Miller

#expertise #finance #had #i #particularly

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#back #belonged #directly #dramatically #filled

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#blood #called #christianity #church #communion

If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#anywhere #backed #bank #because #bonds

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#billion #came #coast #except #federal