Bureau of the Fiscal Service 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 to promote the financial integrity and operational efficiency of the U.S. government through exceptional accounting, financing, collections, payments, and shared services. Their vision is to transform financial management and the delivery of shared services in the federal government. They collaborate with and help other government organizations raise the level of their performance by utilizing modern business practices and emerging technology for federal
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