Tag: Joe Biden

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 07:19 UTC

  Biden tells China US power not waning and anticipates a bumpy 2012

  

  US Vice President Joe Biden rejected views that US power is waning and said Washington would never default, wrapping up a China visit that has played down tensions between the world's two biggest economies. He also anticipated 2012 was a ‘transition year” both for the US and China

• Friday, August 5th 2011 - 07:47 UTC

  Obama administration confident Geithner will remain in his job

  

  President Barack Obama’s senior advisers are confident Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will remain in his job even though he hasn’t made his intentions public, an administration official said.

• Monday, June 27th 2011 - 18:48 UTC

  Federal Reserve will remain biggest buyer of US Treasury bills

  

  The Federal Reserve will remain the biggest buyer of Treasuries, even after the second round of quantitative easing ends this week, as the central bank uses its 2.86 trillion US dollars balance sheet to keep interest rates low.

• Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 01:11 UTC

  US plans 53 billion USD high-speed rail and intercity network investment

  

  United States unveiled a strategy to spend 53 billion US dollars on high-speed rail and intercity network over the next six years. It's a plan that will, according to Vice-president Joe Biden, bring the US closer to giving 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail in the next 25 years.