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Brookings: How We're Doing as Debt Fears Rise

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How We’re Doing as Debt Fears Rise Financial Crisis, Karen Dynan, Vice President and Co-Director, Economic Studies and Ted Gayer, Co-Director, Economic Studies – The Brookings Institution and The Washington Post

  • “With the worst of the credit crunch of 2008-09 behind us, U.S. economic activity has been improving since last summer. Greece’s recent fiscal problems, however, have sparked serious concerns about global credit markets. A central lesson of the financial crisis is that disruptions in credit markets can damage the broader economy. In the fourth “How We’re Doing” Index, a team of scholars at the Brookings Institution has looked at the past five quarters to determine where U.S. credit markets stand and what strains may arise from long-term fiscal imbalances.”
  • Related postings on financial system

    • Study: The Foreclosure Crisis: Did Wall Street Practice Predatory Lending or Did Households Overreach?

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    The Foreclosure Crisis: Did Wall Street Practice Predatory Lending or Did Households Overreach?, April 2010. “A new study by researchers in the Department of Finance at the University of Arkansas finds that household overreaching drove the foreclosure crisis. The authors find that most households in foreclosure were relatively affluent and highly educated people living in… Continue Reading

    National Academies: Strong Evidence on Climate Change Underscores Need for Action

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    News release: “As part of its most comprehensive study of climate change to date, the National Research Council today issued three reports emphasizing why the U.S. should act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and develop a national strategy to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change. The reports are part of a congressionally… Continue Reading

    EPA Releases Draft Dioxin Report for Peer Review and Public Comment

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    News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached a significant milestone toward the completion of the agency’s dioxin reassessment with the public release of its draft scientific report, EPA’s Reanalysis of Key Issues Related to Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS Comments. The draft dioxin report is EPA’s response to key comments and… Continue Reading

    US Department of Labor’s OSHA distributes oil spill cleanup safety guides, fact sheets

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    Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “The materials supplement OSHA-required training workers must receive before they can be hired to engage in the cleanup. In addition to English, the safety guides and fact sheets initially will be printed in Spanish and Vietnamese in recognition of the diverse population… Continue Reading

    Innovative public transportation systems adopted in cities around the world

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    Reclaiming the Streets, Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute: “Cars promise mobility, and in a largely rural setting they provide it. But in an urbanizing world, where more than half of us live in cities, there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city. After a point, as their numbers multiply, automobiles provide… Continue Reading

    State of the World Mothers 2010: Women on the front lines of health care

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    News release: “To address the global shortfall of 4.3 million health care workers needed to end preventable maternal and child deaths, countries must invest in women who are front-line health care workers, Save the Children says in its new State of the World’s Mothers 2010 report…Annually, 8.8 million children die before their fifth birthday and… Continue Reading