A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Use of Exigent Letters and Other Informal Requests for Telephone Records, January 2010, Unclassified, Redacted.
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BLS Producer Price Indexes December 2009
Producer Price Index, January 20, 2010: “The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods moved up 0.2 percent in December, seasonally adjusted. This rise followed a 1.8-percent advance in November and a 0.3-percent increase in October. The index for finished goods less foods and energy was unchanged.” Related postings on financial system Continue Reading
U.S. Productivity Rises in 2009, Despite the Recession
News release: “U.S. productivity weathered the recession well, growing 2.5 percent (in per hour terms) in 2009, The Conference Board reported today. This blip in the prevailing downward trend in U.S. productivity was largely explained by dramatically reduced working hours that offset output decline (employment fell by 3.6 percent in 2009; hours worked per worker… Continue Reading
National Renewable Energy Lab – NREL Study Shows 20 Percent Wind is Possible by 2024
News release: “Today, the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released the Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS). This unprecedented two-and-a-half year technical study of future high-penetration wind scenarios was designed to analyze the economic, operational, and technical implications of shifting 20 percent or more of the Eastern Interconnections electrical… Continue Reading
UN Report: State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
UN Permanent Forum Origin and Development Report: State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, January 2010. “Indigenous peoples contribute extensibly to humanity’s cultural diversity, enriching it with more than two thirds of its languages and an extraordinary amount of its traditional knowledge. There are over 370 million indigenous people in some 90 countries, living in all… Continue Reading
The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.K
News release: “The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the U.K. increased by 0.9 percent in November to 98.6 (2004 = 100), following gains of 1.1 percent in October and 1.0 percent in September. All seven components made positive contributions to the index. Download a PDF of the technical notes for underlying detail, diffusion… Continue Reading
DOE to Provide Up to $12 Million to Support Early Stage Solar Technologies
News release: “U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energys National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will invest $12 million in total funding ($10 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) to support the development of early stage solar energy technologies. The Photovoltaic (PV) Incubator Program partners NREL with… Continue Reading
State of the Twittersphere January 2010
State of the Twittersphere January 2010: “So whats the State of the Twittersphere today? Twitters growth is slower. Growth has fallen from a high of 13% in March of 2009 to 3.5% in October 2009, the most recent month for which we have data…In the more recent period, experienced users makeup a larger portion of… Continue Reading
Report of the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States on the 2009 Economic Report of the President Together With Minority Views
Report of the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States on the 2009 Economic Report of the President Together With Minority Views, January 11, 2010. “The Obama administration and Congress headed into 2009 with an economy teetering on the brink of depression; the housing bubble had burst and a financial crisis had rippled through… Continue Reading
OCLC: Research Assessment and the Role of the Library
News release: “This report was written as a companion report to “A Comparative Review of Research Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment Process,” a report commissioned by OCLC Research and produced by Key Perspectives Ltd, a UK library and scholarly publishing consultancy. Published in December 2009, the… Continue Reading
