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"How the American government has long used financial credit programs to create economic opportunities. Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, but issues of government credit have been part of American life since the nation's founding. From the 1780s, when a watershed national land credit policy was established, to the postwar foundations of...
13) TreasuryDirect
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Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt
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19uu
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English
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Website for individual, institutional, and government investors in U.S. securities, including U.S. Treasury bonds, notes, bills, TIPS, and savings bonds.
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Sandra Warren
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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During World War II, a group of high school students in Grand Rapids, Michigan persuaded their school and town to help them raise money to buy two planes and several landing craft. This is the previously unwritten account of their patriotism and of the heroic crew on the bomber they bought.