Worst Case Housing Needs 2007, released May 2010: The report is the twelfth in the series of worst case housing needs reports that have been issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) since 1991. Worst case housing needs (WCN) are experienced by unassisted very low-income renters who either (1) pay more than… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
EIA – Monthly Natural Gas Gross Production Report – May 28, 2010
Monthly Natural Gas Gross Production Report May 28, 2010: “Monthly natural gas gross withdrawals estimated from data collected on Form EIA-914 (Monthly Natural Gas Production Report) for Federal Offshore Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, Other States and Lower 48 States. Alaska data are from the State of Alaska and… Continue Reading
EU data protection group says Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! do not comply with data protection rules
Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Press Release, Brussels, 26 May 2010: EU data protection group says Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! do not comply with data protection rules “The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, a group of European data protection authorities, today told the three major search engine operators Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft… Continue Reading
The Annual Electric Power Industry Report datafiles
The Annual Electric Power Industry Report datafiles May 28, 2010: “The Annual Electric Power Industry Report datafiles have been expanded on EIA’s Electricity page. Expanded data collection now includes data on advanced metering, mergers & acquisitions, time- and incentive-based demand response programs, and additional data on green pricing and net metering programs for the… Continue Reading
Bank funding and liquidity management: new report from the Committee on Global Financial System
Bank for International Settlements – “The Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) today released a report on Funding patterns and liquidity management of internationally active banks. The report was prepared by a study group that was established by the CGFS and chaired by Mário Mesquita, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil.… Continue Reading
Guantánamo Review Task Force Final Report
Final Report, Guantánamo Review Task Force, dated January 22, 2010 released by the Washington Post on May 29, 2010 (no registration required). “The report was completed in January but sent to select committees on Capitol Hill just this week.” See also the paper’s related graphic. Continue Reading
Bank for International Settlements: Toward a global risk map
Toward a global risk map, by Stephen Cecchetti, Ingo Fender and Patrick McGuire, Working Papers No 309, May 2010 “Global risk maps are unified databases that provide risk exposure data to supervisors and the broader financial market community worldwide. We think of them as giant matrices that track the bilateral (firm-level) exposures of banks, non-bank… Continue Reading
Council on Foreign Relations – Challenges of Global Health
The Challenges of Global Health Governance by David Fidler: “Although the United States will not have the resources to contribute to global health at the same level as it did over the past two decades, a new Working Paper from CFR’s International Institutions and Global Governance program argues that U.S. leadership will be critical to… Continue Reading
EIA: Monthly Energy Review – May 27, 2010
Monthly Energy Review May 27, 2010: “EIA’s primary report of recent energy statistics: total energy production, consumption, and trade; energy prices; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and international petroleum; carbon dioxide emissions; and data unit conversions. Preliminary MER data show that U.S. primary energy consumption rose almost 3%… Continue Reading
EIA: May 2010 Natural Gas Monthly With Data for March 2010
May 2010 Natural Gas Monthly With Data for March 2010 – May 28, 2010: “Natural and supplemental gas production, supply, consumption, disposition, storage, imports, exports, and prices in the United States.” Continue Reading
Council on Foreign Relations – Deepwater Drilling's Future
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, U.S. Deepwater Drilling’s Future: “The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico highlights the growth of deepwater drilling and the challenges of balancing environmental regulation with efforts to expand U.S. domestic oil production. This new Backgrounder from CFR.org analyzes the upward trend in deepwater Gulf… Continue Reading
Heightened Concern Over Depth of Oil Spill Sparks Expanded Scientific Research
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via the New York Times: Scientists Build Case for Undersea Plumes – “After a slow start, American science is finally beginning to tackle the oil disaster in earnest. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with monitoring the health of the oceans,… Continue Reading
