Good morning, Washington. It’s just another Friday. The U.S. Treasury is doing totally normal things like temporarily insuring money market funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission is also status quo, just issuing a simple two-week ban on short-selling. The Federal Reserve is whistling while it expands its liquidity programs, and overall the U.S. Government is totally not doing anything crazy like adopting policies designed to just go ahead and remove bad assets from the balance sheets of financial companies. So yeah, just your average Friday. Nothing to be concerned about here! P.S. Can the U.S. Treasury also go ahead and pay off my Mastercard balance for me? That’d be great, thx.

No Money in Nationals Park: Attendance numbers for the first season of the new Nationals stadium are officially so low that the city can expect $2.6 million less in tax revenue than they had planned. At the same time, the Lerners still haven’t paid the $3.5 million in rent they were supposed to, because, they claim, the ballpark isn’t finished. Who was it again that kept saying this stadium deal might not have been thought through all the way?

Voting Machine Firm Subpoenaed: D.C. Council member Mary Cheh has issued a subpoena for records from Sequoia Voting Systems, the company that supplies the city with its voting equipment and software. The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has yet to offer a full explanation of what caused significant irregularities in the vote tally of last week’s primary election.

Briefly Noted: Fairfax Connector bus drivers still striking four days later … Rebar falls off truck on I-95, damages cars … Elderly Capitol Hill woman severely burned in row house fire … D.C. Lottery firm fined $1.4 million for security breaches.

This Day in DCist: In 2007 the Chung family closed down Custom Cleaners after their legal battle with former judge Roy Pearson, and in 2006 Artomatic was canceled for the year due to problems locating a venue.

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