Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via WJS: “A university researcher questioned the significance of government data that suggest oxygen levels in the Gulf of Mexico haven’t dropped enough to be of serious concern. Samantha Joye, an oceanographer at the University of Georgia who is studying the oil spill’s potential effects on Gulf marine life, said water samples that she and colleagues have taken show a more worrisome drop in oxygen levels than was reported recently by a separate group of federal researchers aboard a different ship.”
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Daily Archives: July 13, 2010
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports – Shadow Banking
Shadow Banking, July 2010, Number 458. Authors: Zoltan Pozsar, Tobias Adrian, Adam Ashcraft, and Hayley Boesky “The rapid growth of the market-based financial system since the mid-1980s changed the nature of financial intermediation in the United States profoundly. Within the market-based financial system, “shadow banks” are particularly important institutions. Shadow banks are financial intermediaries that… Continue Reading
House Majority Leader Majority Leader Hoyer Unveils House Floor Feed
News release: “House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) unveiled today a newly expanded service from the Majority Leaders Office that provides the latest internal information about what is happening on the House Floor: Beginning today, all House Democratic staff will have access to regular updates on whats happening on the House Floor through the… Continue Reading
Conference Board: U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2011
U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2011, Christopher Woock and Judit Torok, July 2010. R-1466-10-RR “With a median increase of 2.5 percent in 2010, salary increase budgets remain historically low but projections for 2011 show a modest increase to 3.0 percentan indication that the economic recovery has not yet picked up enough strength to significantly raise… Continue Reading
White House Announces National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Jeffrey Crowley, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy: “Today, I am pleased to announce the release of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States. The release of the strategy reaffirms President Obamas commitment to fighting this domestic epidemic. From the time that we first heard about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) thirty… Continue Reading
Latest U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Report
U.S. Census Bureau – The Nations international trade deficit in goods and services increased to $42.3 billion in May from $40.3 billion (revised) in April, as imports increased more than exports. (July 13, 2010) Latest U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Report – PDF – 400kb | ZIP (TXT) – 100kb | ZIP (XLS… Continue Reading
More people in UK now underemployed than overemployed
UK Office for National Statistics: More people in UK now underemployed than overemployed, Economic & Labour Market Review, June 2010. 13 July 2010. “The article uses data from the Labour Force Survey, the largest household survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics, to assess whether people in work are underemployed or overemployed, or… Continue Reading
Department of Transportation Air Travel Consumer Report
Air Travel Consumer Report, July 2010 See also Tarmac delays: June 2010 amendment re web posting date for flight delay information Continue Reading
OPM Releases The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey
“President Obama has made it clear: the Federal government needs to deliver results for the taxpayers. Our civil servants are the people who deliver those results, and we at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are doing everything we can to make them the best, most productive workers in the world. The Federal Employee… Continue Reading
Study: High Speed-Rail Ridership Projections Not Reliable, Says UC Review
Follow up to previous postings on high speed rail in America, this news release: “The California High-Speed Rail Authoritys forecasts of demand and ridership for a new San Francisco-to-Los Angeles high-speed train are not reliable because they are based on an inconsistent model, according to a new study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation… Continue Reading
DOT Decides Not to Ban Peanuts on Airline Flights
Food Safety News: “After using the federal rule-making process to solicit a couple hundred pro and con comments on a proposed ban [scroll down the page to view the details] on peanuts on commercial carriers, the U.S. Department of Transportation had to admit it was all just a drill. DOT lacks the authority to impose… Continue Reading
