Financial Regulation Timeline | NetRootsMass. Note: This is the main page and timeline for a series on the (mostly) legislative history of financial deregulation that has contributed to our current financial and economic crisis. To read the entire series, see the individual posts listed below (additional links will be added as more posts in the series are written – as time and interest permit). Please use the comments to contribute links and other information. Thanks, selise. Regulation TIMELINE and notes: June 7, 1987 – The NYT reports "Treasury now favors creation of huge banks". Top officials at the Treasury Department have concluded that the Government should encourage creation of very large banks that could better compete with financial institutions in Japan and Europe.The Treasury plan, which would permit the acquisition of banks by large industrial companies, was also endorsed by Alan Greenspan, in an interview before President Reagan nominated him this week to be chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.Mr.
Past Prime Ministers Number 10. America's Recent Former Presidents. The U.S. presidency is one tough assignment—so tough, some wonder why anyone would want the job. But every four years, presidential hopefuls line up for a chance to call 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home. In the end, only one person wins the trust—and the votes—of the American people. Since 1789, the U.S. has elected 43 Presidents, including George W.
Bush. Only three former leaders are alive today. Gerald Ford 1974-1977 After serving as Vice President under Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford rose to power in the wake of one of the most notorious political scandals in U.S. history. On August 9, 1974, Ford took the oath of office, vowing to restore trust in the presidency. Overseas, Ford worked with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to establish new restrictions on nuclear weapons. Before he became Commander in Chief, Ford represented the state of Michigan in Congress for 25 years. Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 Carter grew up on a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia.
George H.W. William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001. Business Reference. Major Cities. China had 663 cities by the end of 2000, of which 13 had populations of more than two million each in the urban area; 27, between one and two million; 53, between 500,000 and one million; 218, between 200,000 and 500,000; and 352, less than 200,000. Some of these are industrial cities that burgeoned along with the construction of key state projects, some are port cities with favorable conditions for the opening-up, and some are famous historical and cultural cities. (Unit: 10,000 persons) Shanghai 986.2 Beijing 760.7 Chongqing 660.9 Tianjin 532.5 Wuhan 441.1 Harbin 435.0 Shengyang 433.3 Guangzhou 436.1 Chengdu 345.9 Nanjing 309.5 Changchun 287.8 Xi’an 285.8 Dalian 275.4 In the course of city planning, China implements the principle of “strictly controlling the size of large cities, developing medium-sized cities rationally and developing small cities actively.”
Beijing emerged as a city as far back as the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century-770 B.C.), when it was known as Ji.