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Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act. The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), is a United States federal law enacted in the wake of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. It established the Resolution Trust Corporation to close hundreds of insolvent thrifts and provided ...
Gold Reserve Act. An Act to protect the currency system of the United States, to provide for the better use of the monetary gold stock of the United States, and for other purposes. The United States Gold Reserve Act of January 30, 1934 required that all gold and gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve be surrendered and vested in the sole ...
To ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the United States Government until May 19, 2013, and for other purposes. The No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113–3 (text) (PDF); H.R. 325) is a law passed during the 113th United States Congress. The Act temporarily suspended the US debt ceiling from February 4 to May 18 ...
"This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private, and is redeemable in lawful money at the United States Treasury, or at any Federal Reserve Bank" Branch ID in letters; during the Great Depression: 1950 $5 $10 $20 $50 $100 Slight design changes: branch logo; placements of signatures, "Series xxxx", and "Washington, D.C.",
Greenback (1860s money) Greenbacks were emergency paper currency issued by the United States during the American Civil War that were printed in green on the back. [1] They were in two forms: Demand Notes, issued in 1861–1862, [1] and United States Notes, issued in 1862–1865. [2] A form of fiat money, the notes were legal tender for most ...
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Pub. L. 95 -109; 91 Stat. 874, codified as 15 U.S.C. § 1692 –1692p, approved on September 20, 1977 (and as subsequently amended), is a consumer protection amendment, establishing legal protection from abusive debt collection practices, to the Consumer Credit Protection Act, as Title VIII of ...
The Funding Act of 1790, the full title of which is An Act making provision for the [payment of the] Debt of the United States, was passed on August 4, 1790, by the United States Congress as part of the Compromise of 1790, to address the issue of funding (debt service, repayment, and retirement) of the domestic debt incurred by the state governments, first as Thirteen Colonies, then as states ...
Banking Act of 1933. The Banking Act of 1933 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 73–66, 48 Stat. 162, enacted June 16, 1933) was a statute enacted by the United States Congress that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and imposed various other banking reforms. [ 1 ] The entire law is often referred to as the ...