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Monthly Archives: June 2007

DOJ Foreign Agents Registration Act Search Tool Released

FARA Search: “This is an initial release of the FARA document search tool, providing Internet access to the vast majority of public documents on file with the FARA Registration Unit. However, because some potential privacy issues remain under review, there are certain FARA documents not available via the Internet at this time, but which still… Continue Reading

FTC Working Paper – Retail Gasoline Pricing: What Do We Know?

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics, Working Paper No. 290, Retail Gasoline Pricing: What Do We Know? by Daniel Hosken, Robert McMillan, Christopher Taylor, May 2007. “We examine retail gasoline station pricing using three years of weekly prices for 272 stations in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. We report a number of new empirical… Continue Reading

New Reports from Energy Information Administration on Natural Gas Reserves, Natural Gas Pipelines

World Proved Natural Gas Reserves, January 1, 1980 – January 1, 2007 Estimates (06/01/2007): “A table of World Proved Natural Gas Reserves, January 1, 1980 – January 1, 2007 Estimates is now available. EIA estimates are used for the United States for January 1, 1980 – January 1, 2006. All other estimates are from the… Continue Reading

America’s Diverse Family Farms, 2007 Edition

America’s Diverse Family Farms, 2007 Edition, by Robert A. Hoppe, David E. Banker, Penni Korb, Erik O’Donoghue, and James MacDonald -Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-26) 12 pages, June 2007. “American farms encompass a wide range of sizes, ownership structures, and business types, but most farms are still family farms. Family farms account for 98 percent… Continue Reading