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Tony Fratto

Type: Person

Name: Tony Fratto

Title: Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs

Organization: U.S. Department of the Treasury

Nationality: United States

Fact Sheet: Biography for Tony Fratto

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Tony Fratto

IRS Scandal Hugely Distracting for Obama: Pro

Tony Fratto, managing director at Hamilton Place Strategies, comments on the IRS scandal and its impact on the Obama administration and how complex it would be to reform the tax system. ... [Published CNBC - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Tony Fratto, Obama Administration

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Federal Reserve System

When Should the Fed Taper Its Stimulus Program?

Chris Rupkey at MD and chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and and Tony Fratto, managing director at Hamilton Place Strategies, discuss the U.S. economy and whether the Fed should signal an end of money printing. ... [Published CNBC - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Federal Reserve System, Chris Rupkey, Tony Fratto, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

IRS Internal Revenue Service

White House had IRS notice earlier

WASHINGTON ? The White House offered a new account Monday of how and when it learned that the Internal Revenue Service had improperly targeted conservative groups, saying that some senior officials were informed of the findings but that President Barack ... [Published Bend Bulletin - May 21 2013]

Entities: IRS Internal Revenue Service, White House, Kathryn Ruemmler

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Jared Bernstein: A Few Lessons From the IRS Scandal

Just back from a rousing debate on CNBC on the IRS scandal (a tough way to start the day but always a pleasure to mix it up with the the Squawk team and the smart and balanced Tony Fratto). Key points, as I see them:-- While the pugilistic Joe Kernen ... [Published Huffington Post - May 16 2013]

Entities: Jared Bernstein, Joe Kernen, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Tony Fratto

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Video: Obama to Make Statement on IRS Scandal

President Obama is preparing to make a statement on the IRS investigation after it admitted to targeting conservative groups, with CNBC's Melissa Lee, Larry Kudlow and Eamon Javers. Mark Hannah, Huffington Post and Tony Fratto, Hamilton Place Strateg ... [Published NBCNews.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, Tony Fratto, Melissa Lee, Larry Kudlow

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Bank of America Corp

USA - Bankers are get above their station again

The nation's biggest banks are going on the offensive to fend off growing efforts in Washington to rein them in.The banks have hired longtime, influential Washington hands to deflect regulatory and political pressure to strengthen their finances and to ... [Published Meat Trade News Daily - May 16 2013]

Entities: Michele Davis, Bank of America Corp, Bush Administration, Financial Services Forum

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Wall Street Fear Bloomberg Becoming Their Rival

Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg's primary rival in the data world, also provides trading capabilities, but it rarely vies for the trades itself and emphasizes what it calls its neutrality. The company has not moved into many of the business lines where Bloomberg ... [Published CNBC - May 15 2013]

Entities: Wall Street, Eugene Scalia, Tony Fratto, Dark Pools

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

The mystery of Ben Bernanke and the Japanese ketchup is solved!

In my book about central banking, I report on a minor mystery involving the current chairman of the Federal Reserve, ketchup and the Bank of Japan. I now think it is solved. Flashback a decade. In the early 2000s, American officials and economists ... [Published Ezra Klein - May 12 2013]

Entities: Ben Bernanke, Tony Fratto, John Taylor, Bank of Japan

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

House Vote on Debt Ceiling Gives Priority to Creditors

WASHINGTON The House voted Thursday to allow the Treasury to continue to make payments to foreign and domestic federal creditors and Social Security recipients in the event of a stalemate over the governments statutory borrowing limit, digging in for ... [Published New York Times - May 10 2013]

Entities: Debt Ceiling, Republican Party (US), Tony Fratto

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 2 reports

WSJ: Big Banks Push Back Against Tighter Rules

The Wall Street Journal reported that the nation’s biggest banks are going on the offensive to fend off growing efforts in Washington to rein them in.The Journal reported that several banks and the Financial Services Forum, a trade association, have hired ... [Published Monitor Daily - May 09 2013]

Entities: National Bank Holdings Corp, Tony Fratto, Financial Services Forum

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Biden, Fratto offer food for thought

Bipartisanship is a rare sighting around town these days, but Hunter Biden and Tony Fratto are coming together over the issue of food.Biden is the second son of Vice President Joe Biden and Fratto served in the press shop of President George W. Bush’s ... [Published Politico - May 03 2013]

Entities: Robert Hunter Biden, Tony Fratto, Jill Biden, UN World Food Programme

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 2 reports

Two Senators Just Introduced A Bill That Could Neuter Wall Street

YouTubeSen Sherrod Brown presenting on the floor of the Senate last month See Also Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David (R-LA) have presented a bill that is going to keep Wall Street bankers up at night the "Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness" ... [Published Business Insider - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Wall Street, Sherrod Brown, Meredith Whitney, Sandy Weill

Quotes

"it does take the air out of the balloon" said Tony Fratto, who was deputy White House press secretary under Republican President George W Bush...

Rising Revenue Undercuts Tax-Spending Arguments of Both Parties [Published BusinessWeek - May 13 2013]

"is the government really going to be in the position of withholding benefits, salaries, rent, contract payments etc., in order to pay off treasury bondholders? that would be a political catastrophe" Fratto said earlier this year

Republicans pushing the nation toward default: Column [Published Stevens Point Journal - May 09 2013]

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IRS Scandal Hugely Distracting for Obama: Pro [Published CNBC - 7 hours ago]
When Should the Fed Taper Its Stimulus Program? [Published CNBC - 7 hours ago]
White House had IRS notice earlier [Published Bend Bulletin - May 21 2013]
Jared Bernstein: A Few Lessons From the IRS Sca... [Published Huffington Post - May 16 2013]
Stop IRS Culture of 'Rot and Abuse': Rep. Boustany [Published CNBC - May 16 2013]
Video: Obama to Make Statement on IRS Scandal [Published NBCNews.com - May 16 2013]
USA - Bankers are get above their station again [Published Meat Trade News Daily - May 16 2013]
Wall Street Fear Bloomberg Becoming Their Rival [Published CNBC - May 15 2013]
Video: Wall Street Buzzing About Bloomberg Breach [Published NBCNews.com - May 13 2013]
Rising Revenue Undercuts Tax-Spending Arguments... [Published BusinessWeek - May 13 2013]
The mystery of Ben Bernanke and the Japanese ke... [Published Ezra Klein - May 12 2013]
Floor Speech: Consideration of the Rules for HR... [Published Congresswoman Louise Slaughter - May 10 2013]
DC Staffers Use Insider Connections to Cash In ... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 10 2013]
Big banks raked in $102bn in subsidies since 20... [Published Press tv - May 10 2013]
House Vote on Debt Ceiling Gives Priority to Cr... [Published New York Times - May 10 2013]
Republicans pushing the nation toward default: ... [Published Stevens Point Journal - May 09 2013]
WSJ: Big Banks Push Back Against Tighter Rules [Published Monitor Daily - May 09 2013]
Big Banks Push Back Against Tighter Rules [Published Yahoo! Finance - May 09 2013]
Wall Street hires Washington [Published Politico - May 09 2013]
Biden, Fratto offer food for thought [Published Politico - May 03 2013]
Not Part of the Recovery: High School Graduates [Published The Fiscal Times - May 03 2013]
Lewis: Citizen tries to arrest bank CEO [Published Denver Post - Apr 30 2013]
GOP Applauds George Bush Legacy on Immigration,... [Published US News & World Report - Apr 25 2013]
Programming notes [Published First Read - Apr 25 2013]
Budget battle: 3 plans on the table, what now? [Published Journal-Gazette - Apr 25 2013]
U.S. Senate duo dials back anti-big bank proposal [Published Reuters - Apr 24 2013]
Two Senators Just Introduced A Bill That Could ... [Published Business Insider - Apr 24 2013]
Two Senators Just Introduced A Bill That Could ... [Published Clusterstock - Apr 24 2013]
Laura Bush Proud of Bush Center, Legacy [Published NBC Dallas-Fort Worth - Apr 24 2013]
Companies Cutting Costs, Not Hiring [Published CNBC - Apr 22 2013]

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The mystery of Ben Bernanke and the Japanese ke... [Published Ezra Klein - May 12 2013] In my book about central banking, I report on a minor mystery involving the current chairman of the Federal Reserve, ketchup and the Bank of Japan. I now think it is solved. Flashback a decade. In the early 2000s, American officials and economists ...
DC Staffers Use Insider Connections to Cash In ... [Published Breitbart Feed - May 10 2013] Congressional and Cabinet-level staff members are cashing in on their high power connections and regulatory knowledge by moving to Wall Street investment firms that often double, and in some cases quadruple, their paychecks. “It has really ...
Programming notes [Published First Read - Apr 25 2013] *** Thursday’s “The Daily Rundown” line-up (from the Bush library in Dallas) : NBC's Matt Lauer and David Gregory on the president now and then... Looking at the policy legacy of the Bush years with former Homeland Security Secy. Tom Ridge, former Education ...
Two Senators Just Introduced A Bill That Could ... [Published Clusterstock - Apr 24 2013] Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David (R-LA) have presented a bill that is going to keep Wall Street bankers up at night — the "Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness" Act. The acronym for that is TBTF — see what they did there? The two ...
Thinking Hard About Next Year... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Apr 13 2013] Here, below the fold, are 140 names that an automated trawl of "influential" webloggers/tweeters turned up… Should the Kauffman Foundation be willing to fund a sixth annual Kauffman Foundation Economic Webloggers' Forum next spring, which of these belongs ...