White Hosue Policy: “The President has decided to increase governmental transparency by implementing a voluntary disclosure policy governing White House visitor access records. The White House will release, on a monthly basis, all previously unreleased WAVES and ACR access records that are 90 to 120 days old. For example, records created in January 2010 will… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Executive Agency Ethics Pledge Waivers
White House: “We have previously reported six limited waivers that have been granted by the White House pursuant to the Presidents Executive Order on Ethics for Executive Branch personnel the strongest ethics standards in U.S. government history. Three of these waivers involved lobbying-related issues and three did not. We blogged about them here, here,… Continue Reading
GPO Releases 8 new collections into the Federal Digital System
The Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce the release of 8 new collections into the Federal Digital System (FDsys). The new collections are: Congressional Directory (105th Congress to present) Congressional Record (Bound) (1999 to 2001) Congressional Record Index (Daily) (1983 to Present) Economic Report of the President (1996 to present) GAO Reports and… Continue Reading
Employment Situation Summary – August 2009
News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in August (-216,000), and the unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Although job losses continued in many of the major industry sectors in August, the declines have moderated in recent months. In August, the number of unemployed persons increased… Continue Reading
Google Publishes Books Privacy Policy
Google Books Privacy Policy, September 3, 2009 “The main Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Google’s products and services, including Google Books. This additional Policy for Google Books does three things: (1) it highlights key provisions of the main Google Privacy Policy in the context of the Google Books… Continue Reading
Federal Government Must Hire Tens of Thousands of New Workers to Fill Mission-Critical Jobs
News release: “Great news for job seekers this Labor Day: the federal government is hiring tens of thousands of new employees, according to new projections in Where the Jobs Are 2009: Mission-Critical Opportunities for America, released today by the Partnership for Public Service. The online projections outline government-wide, mission-critical hiring needs through 2012 and are… Continue Reading
European Central Bank Papers: Equity, Macroeconomic projections, bond purchase program, OTC derivatives, credit default swaps
03/09/2009 – Working paper no. 1086: Euro area money demand: empirical evidence on the role of equity and labour markets 03/09/2009 – Publication: ECB staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area 03/09/2009 – Publication: Eurosystem covered bond purchase programme 03/09/2009 – Publication: OTC derivatives and post-trading infrastructure 31/08/2009 – Occasional paper no. 105: Flow-of-funds analysis… Continue Reading
Petroleum Marketing Monthly, Peak Underground Working Gas Storage Capacity in U.S.
September 2009 Petroleum Marketing Monthly With Data for June 2009 (09/01/2009): Monthly price and volume statistics on crude oil and petroleum products at a national, regional and state level. Estimates of Peak Underground Working Gas Storage Capacity in the United States, 2009 Update (08/31/2009): “This report provides estimates of aggregate peak working gas capacity and… Continue Reading
European Central Bank: Economic and financial situation: where do we stand?
Speech by Jürgen Stark, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB – 2. Zeit Konferenz Neue Architektur der Finanzwirtschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 3 September 2009 “We have witnessed two years of severe financial distress, with adverse effects on the euro area and elsewhere. We have experienced the trough of global and euro area… Continue Reading
Remarks by the Vice President on the 200 Days of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Remarks by the Vice President on the 200 Days of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: “First, we had to stabilize the financial system. We took the unpopular but necessary step of rescuing the banks. And now, although there’s a long way to go, eight out of 10 of the largest financial institutions in America… Continue Reading
Pew: Recession Turns a Graying Office Grayer America's Changing Work Force
“The American work force is graying — and not just because the American population itself is graying. Older adults are staying in the labor force longer, and younger adults are staying out of it longer. Both trends took shape about two decades ago. Both have intensified during the current recession. And both are expected to… Continue Reading
Principles for Reforming the U.S. and International Regulatory Capital Framework for Banking Firms
“The global regulatory framework failed to prevent the build-up of risk in the financial system in the years leading up to the recent financial crisis. The sources of this failure were manifold, including insufficient capital and liquidity requirements for banking firms; inadequate and fragmented supervision and regulation of bank and non-bank financial firms that posed… Continue Reading
