Depot Maintenance: Improved Strategic Planning Needed to Ensure That Army and Marine Corps Depots Can Meet Future Maintenance Requirements, GAO-09-865, September 17, 2009 Nuclear Nonproliferation: National Nuclear Security Administration Has Improved the Security of Reactors in its Global Research Reactor Program, but Action Is Needed to Address Remaining Concerns, GAO-09-949, September 17, 2009 Reserve Forces:… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
OCC Releases CRA Evaluations For 35 National Banks
News release: “The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of August 15, 2009 through September 14, 2009. The list contains only national banks and insured federal branches of foreign banks that have received ratings…Of the 35… Continue Reading
Report and recommendations of Cross-border Bank Resolution Group issued by Basel Committee
17 September 2009 – “The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued for consultation the Report and recommendations of the Cross-border Bank Resolution Group. Mr Nout Wellink, Chairman of the Basel Committee and President of the Netherlands Bank, noted that “the recommendations seek to promote more orderly resolution of cross-border banks to reduce systemic risk… Continue Reading
Free Search Engine for All U.S. Trademarks Filed Since 1870
TradeMarkia – Search for a trademark by: name (here is the result for beSpacific), filing date(s), category, goods & services, company name, status [via Google Blogoscoped] Continue Reading
Hearing on Competition and Commerce in Digital Books: The Proposed Google Book Settlement
Statement of Marybeth Peters, The Register of Copyrights before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives 111th Congress 1st Session, September 10, 2009 “In the view of the Copyright Office, the settlement proposed by the parties would encroach on responsibility for copyright policy that traditionally has been the domain of Congress. The… Continue Reading
BLS: Consumer Price Index – August 2009
News release: “On a seasonally adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.4 percent in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The index has decreased 1.5 percent over the last 12 months on a not seasonally adjusted basis. The 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted increase in the CPI-U was… Continue Reading
CBO: How Regulatory Standards Can Affect a Cap-and-Trade Program for Greenhouse Gases
How Regulatory Standards Can Affect a Cap-and-Trade Program for Greenhouse Gases, September 16, 2009 “Some legislation considered by the current and previous Congresses has proposed combining cap-and-trade programs with various regulatory standards to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Greenhouse gases increase the amount of energy temporarily held in the lower atmosphere, keeping the Earths surface warmer than… Continue Reading
BLS: Real Earnings August 2009
News release: “Real average hourly earnings fell 0.2 percent from July to August, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This decline stemmed from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), up by 0.6 percent, outpacing 0.3 percent growth in average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers.… Continue Reading
Economist.com Global Debt Comparison Chart
“The Global Public Debt Clock was developed using data and forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit database. It is, of course, inspired by the National Debt Clock, a rolling measure of the US public debt that physically resides in midtown Manhattan. This clock was originally sponsored by a real estate developer, Seymour Durst, who wanted… Continue Reading
SEC Announces New Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation
News release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro today announced that University of Texas School of Law Professor Henry T. C. Hu has been named Director of the newly-established Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation. The new division combines the Office of Economic Analysis, the Office of Risk Assessment, and other functions… Continue Reading
Preliminary Analysis of Specifications for the Chairman's Mark of the America's Healthy Future Act
Senate Finance Committee: Baucus Releases Americas Healthy Future Act Chairmans Mark – Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009 Scheduled for Markup By the Senate Committee on Finance On September 22, 2009 [223 pages, PDF] 9-16-09 JCT Analysis of the America’s Healthy Future Act 9-16-09: Finance Committee Memo on Estimates of the Americas Health Future Act… Continue Reading
Paying for Digital Goods: Google Checkout
Google proposal: “The Newspaper Association of America’s Request for Information “seeks to gather information about the products and services available from qualified providers with expertise in helping local online publishers additionally monetize digital content, either through transactions (pay for content) and/or through collection of user data for enhanced advertising targeting or other ‘access to content… Continue Reading
