News release: “Today the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released its monthly state-by-state report Understanding the Economy: State-by-State Snapshots, featuring key economic indicators for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The report has been updated to include state data released April 16 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and is the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Testimony by Chairman Bernanke on lessons from the failure of Lehman Brothers
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke – Lessons from the failure of Lehman Brothers Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 20, 2010: “The Federal Reserve fully understood that the failure of Lehman would shake the financial system and the economy. However, the only tool available to the Federal Reserve to… Continue Reading
DOJ Releases Email Retention Policy In Response to FOIA Request from CREW
Follow up to Missing White House E-Mails Still Factor in Torture Memo Investigation, this CREW news release: “On Friday, April 16, CREW received an initial response to its Freedom of Information Act request of the Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) related to the failure of former OLC official John Yoo to preserve… Continue Reading
BEA: Summary Estimates for Multinational Companies: Employment, Sales, and Capital Expenditures for 2008
Summary Estimates for Multinational Companies: Employment, Sales, and Capital Expenditures for 2008 – “The following are advance summary estimates of the employment, capital spending, and sales activity of U.S. multinational companies (comprising both their U.S. and foreign operations) and the corresponding activity of foreign multinational companies in the United States. U.S. multinational companies: U.S. and… Continue Reading
FTC: Consider Ways Alternative Energy Sources Could be Used More Efficiently in Nation's Power Generation System
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on how alternative sources of energy such as wind farms, solar cells, and solar thermal installations can best be integrated into the nations electric power grid. The FTC recommends that FERC study ways to make electricity markets better… Continue Reading
Federal Regulators Release Model Consumer Privacy Notice Online Form Builder
News release: “Eight federal regulators released an Online Form Builder today that financial institutions can download and use to develop and print customized versions of a model consumer privacy notice. The Online Form Builder, based on the model form regulation published in the Federal Register on December 1, 2009, under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, is available… Continue Reading
Pew Report: Distrust, Discontent, Anger and Partisan Rancor The People and Their Government
Distrust, Discontent, Anger and Partisan Rancor The People and Their Government, April 18, 2010 “By almost every conceivable measure Americans are less positive and more critical of government these days. A new Pew Research Center survey finds a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter… Continue Reading
Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food – 10 States, 2009
Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food – 10 States, 2009. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), April 16, 2010 / 59(14);418-422 “The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) of CDC’s Emerging Infections Program conducts active, population-based surveillance in 10 U.S. states for all laboratory-confirmed infections with select… Continue Reading
BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary
News release: “Regional and state unemployment rates were little changed in March. Twenty-four states recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 17 states and the District of Columbia registered rate decreases, and 9 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-four states and the District of Columbia recorded jobless rate increases… Continue Reading
The Economist: A special report on innovation in emerging markets
The world turned upside down – The emerging world, long a source of cheap labour, now rivals the rich countries for business innovation, says Adrian Wooldridge (interviewed here) “This special report will argue…[d]eveloping countries are becoming hotbeds of business innovation in much the same way as Japan did from the 1950s onwards. They are coming… Continue Reading
How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?
Hoofnagle, Chris Jay, King, Jennifer, Li, Su and Turow, Joseph, How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies? (April 14, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1589864 “Media reports teem with stories of young people posting salacious photos online, writing about alcohol-fueled misdeeds on social networking sites, and… Continue Reading
FDIC OIG Evaluation of Federal Regulatory Oversight of Washington Mutual Bank
Offices of Inspector General, Department of the Treasury, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Evaluation of Federal Regulatory Oversight of Washington Mutual Bank, Report No. EVAL-10-002, Released April 16, 2010 “This report presents the results of our review of the failure of Washington Mutual Bank (WaMu), Seattle, Washington; the Office of Thrift Supervisions (OTS) supervision of the… Continue Reading
