Reducing Foreclosures: No Easy Answers, Christopher Foote, Kristopher Gerardi, Lorenz Goette, and Paul Willen, Working Paper 2009-15, May 2009 “This paper takes a skeptical look at a leading argument about what is causing the foreclosure crisis and what should be done to stop it. We use an economic model to focus on two key decisions:… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2009
GSA launches YouTube channel
Federal Computer Week: “The new YouTube channel, the U.S. Government Channel, has more than 200 videos from 25 agencies arranged in 13 playlists, including one in Spanish. Macon Phillips, the White Houses new media director, appears in a video that showcases new media being used by government agencies.” Continue Reading
Speech by Fed Vice Chair on interactions between monetary and fiscal policy in the current situation
News release: “Our current economic situation has altered some of the usual interactions between monetary and fiscal policy. One change regards the relative effects of monetary and fiscal policy. The depth and persistence of economic weakness has meant that traditional monetary policy–the target for the federal funds rate–has become constrained from easing as much as… Continue Reading
U.S. Government Agencies and Internet Retailers Receive Failing Grade in
News release: ” The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) gave leading government agencies and online retailers a failing grade in preventing deceptive email and phishing scams based on its newly released analysis of email authentication adoption. While adoption has grown over the past year, OTA found approximately 56 percent of the top .gov sites including… Continue Reading
OTA releases drafts Online Safety Principles for Public Comment
News release: “…the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) released its 2009 draft Online Trust Principles for public comment. The Principles are a major step toward establishing business practices that afford greater consumer online protection and the long term vitality of online commence and interactive marketing.” Continue Reading
World Health Statistics 2009 presents mid-way report card
News release: “Deaths of children aged under five years have dropped by 27% globally since 1990, according to the latest WHO estimates. But in WHOs first progress report on the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) released today in the World Health Statistics 2009, other results are mixed. An estimated 9 million children aged under five… Continue Reading
WSJ: As Recession Bites, More Attorneys Attend Management Training
Law Firms Embrace Business School 101: “At a growing number of law firms, top attorneys are being trained like business people, using executive education courses designed to strengthen management and business skills. Some firms have been actively teaching lawyers business skills for the past half-decade. But this year’s shrinking client lists — and profits —… Continue Reading
SEC Takes Steps to Strengthen Existing Rules Governing Securities Trading by Personnel
News release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro outlined a series of measures the agency is taking to strengthen its internal compliance program to guard against inappropriate employee securities trading….The measures the agency is taking include: First, the staff has drafted a set of new internal rules governing securities transactions for all SEC employees… Continue Reading
WaPo: DARPA and Google Translation Projects Diminish Language Barriers
With Translation Technology On Their Side, Humans Can Finally Lick the Language Barrier: “…a universal translator…is being tested in Iraq by DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — the legendary research and development works in Arlington [Virginia]. The machine interprets the spoken word. You talk in English. It repeats whatever you said in… Continue Reading
Guide to Best Sites for Finding Public Data on People
9 Sites That Find People and Their ‘Sensitive’ Information: “Here are the best sites for locating people, as well as the best sites (like Glassdoor and Criminal Searches) for finding sensitive (but public) information about them,” Mark Sullivan, PC World Continue Reading
O'Connor Interview on Judicial Elections, Civic Education and the High Court Vacancy
In interview, retired justice says a woman should be the choice, Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal Continue Reading
Court Ruling in the Matter of United States v. the Council for Tobacco Research-USA, et al
United States v. the Council for Tobacco Research-USA, et al. Appellate Ruling, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, May 22, 2009 “Defendants in this action, cigarette manufacturers and trade organizations, appeal from the district courts judgment finding them liable for conducting the affairs of their joint enterprise through a pattern of… Continue Reading
