Questions surrounding Representative Vern Buchanan’s Florida campaigns are threatening to distract from the Republicans’ national finance operation.

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G.O.P. Fund-Raiser Faces Inquiries Into His Races

Questions surrounding Representative Vern Buchanan’s Florida campaigns are threatening to distract from the Republicans’ national finance operation.

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G.O.P. Fund-Raiser Faces Inquiries Into His Races

IT HAS BEEN 42 months since the Bush administration placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the control of their regulator , the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), and began pouring in cash to cover the mortgage-finance giants’ mounting losses. This has enabled Fannie and Freddie to continue propping up a housing market that otherwise would have crashed: They currently back two-thirds of all mortgages made. Taxpayer cost: $180 billion. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Fannie-Freddie regulator has sober plans

The Dow Jones briefly tops the 13,000 mark in the US, while European markets dip after eurozone finance ministers agree to another bailout deal for Greece.

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Markets mixed on Greece bailout

After months of fraught negotiation, finance ministers were expected to agree to a second bailout in exchange for severe austerity measures.

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European Ministers Are Poised to Approve Greek Rescue

All the elements for agreement on a bailout loan for Greece are in place, France says, ahead of a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels.

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Greek bailout ‘elements in place’

European stock markets are higher before a meeting of eurozone finance ministers that many hope will finalise a new bailout for Greece.

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Stocks up on Greek bailout hopes

Administrators say they have new information on the takeover and running of Rangers which will help form a full picture of club finances.

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‘New information’ on Rangers deal

Greece will “fully clarify” its austerity measures within hours, the country’s finance minister says, as he scrambles to finalise an EU bailout deal.

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Greece promises deal ‘in hours’

Trying to avert another tax showdown, House Republican leaders Monday proposed an extension of the withholding-tax holiday to the end of the year without offsetting spending cuts. Locked in a fight over the payroll tax holiday since President Obama made it the centerpiece of his jobs legislation last September, the top three House GOP leaders backed off previous demands that its extension be accompanied by spending reductions to shore up the finances of the Social Security program, which is funded through withholding taxes. Read full article > >

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House Republican leaders agree to payroll-tax holiday extension without offsets

W hat in the world is the matter with the Republican Party? This is an election year when pretty much everything should be going the GOP’s way. A Democratic president is facing the worst reelection environment in a generation. The conservative base is fired up to defeat him and should be riding high after securing the largest GOP House majority since the 1940s. Looser campaign finance restrictions have unleashed the ability of the party’s wealthiest donors to spend unlimited amounts. Read full article > >

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Election 2012: Republicans united on goal — beat Obama — divided on how to get there

Officials in Brussels said that the announcement of a meeting of euro zone finance ministers suggested that an agreement in principle was likely among Greek political parties.

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Greece Nears Agreement on Bailout Package

The UK’s largest care provider, Four Seasons, is in talks to find money to refinance its debts, but it denies union claims it is in financial difficulty.

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Care provider in new debt talks

The Supreme Court is to hear a case challenging the way councils in England can consider their finances when assessing people for social care.

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Court hears social care challenge

Authoritarian rulers have long viewed pro-democracy groups financed by the United States with deep suspicion, but never has a government gone as far as Egypt’s.

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In Egypt, a History of Distrust of U.S.-Aided Groups