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Here's the the Treasury Department's official blog, inaugurated only ten years after the development of the form (to be fair, they've already got a Twitter feed too, which is a bit more au courant).  Tim Geithner has given us a welcome:

Treasury Notes will be a place where senior officials and staff throughout the Department and Bureaus will post news, announcements and information so you can learn more about us and the work we do here at Treasury ? a key step forward in an ongoing effort to enhance the way Treasury communicates and interacts with you. 

On behalf of the Treasury Department, welcome ? and please visit again soon.

I'm going to take him up on the visit again soon thing - indeed, Treasury Notes is going into my RSS Reader.  I'll look forward to the Note where they announce they are discontinuing the thrift charter - here's the Times on how small the thrift industry (now minus Washington Mutual) has gotten, and how if there are any defenders of the thrift charter out there, it's non-banks like Nordstrom and State Farm, who have taken advantage of a loophole in the governing legislation to get themselves a bank subsidiary, something that the Walmarts of the world have been unable to do.