Bureau of the Fiscal Service financial management and shared services. The Fiscal Service replaced the Bureau of the Public Debt and the Financial Management Service effective October 7, 2012 per directive of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The Bureau manages the government's accounting, central payment systems, and public debt. Among its duties is to collect any voluntary donations made to the government for reduction of the public debt. Bureau of the Fiscal Service The Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, an agency of the United States federal government. The mission of the Fiscal Service is
The Financial Lives of the Poets The Financial Lives of the Poets The Financial Lives of the Poets is the fifth novel by the American writer Jess Walter. It is a comedic novel first published in 2009. The novel explores the global financial crisis, through the eyes of a business reporter turned poet. Reception of the novel was generally positive. "The New York Times" was largely positive, calling it successful at "captur[ing] the fiscal panic and frustration" and full of "blistering wisecracks". "The Los Angeles Times" called it "darkly funny, surprisingly tender [and] verse sprinkled", though the review highlighted the characters in the novel as flawed