News release and appended report, Projections of the Enterprises’ Financial Performance October 2010: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released projections of the financial performance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) including potential draws under the Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements (PSPAs) with the U.S. Department of the Treasury. To date, the Enterprises… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
New GAO Reports: Intragovernmental Revolving Funds, Recovery Act, SBA's Microloan Program
Intragovernmental Revolving Funds: NIST’s Interagency Agreements and Workload Require Management Attention, GAO-11-41, October 20, 2010 Recovery Act: Opportunities Exist to Increase the Public’s Understanding of Recipient Reporting on HUD Programs, GAO-10-966, September 30, 2010 Participants in SBA’s Microloan Program Could Provide Additional Information to Enhance the Public’s Understanding of Recovery Act Fund Uses and Expected… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Intragovernmental Revolving Funds, Recovery Act, SBA's Microloan Program
Intragovernmental Revolving Funds: NIST’s Interagency Agreements and Workload Require Management Attention, GAO-11-41, October 20, 2010 Recovery Act: Opportunities Exist to Increase the Public’s Understanding of Recipient Reporting on HUD Programs, GAO-10-966, September 30, 2010 Participants in SBA’s Microloan Program Could Provide Additional Information to Enhance the Public’s Understanding of Recovery Act Fund Uses and Expected… Continue Reading
A Strong Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The National Security Strategy
A Strong Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The National Security Strategy, October 2010. Our predecessors grappled with the brutal certainties of the Cold War with an existential danger that was clear and present, with Soviet armies arrayed across half of Europe and the constant threat of nuclear confrontation between the superpowers. Today, Britain… Continue Reading
Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategic Defence and Security Review
Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategic Defence and Security Review, October 2010 “This Strategic Defence and Security Review is long overdue. It is the first time that a UK government has taken decisions on its defence, security, intelligence, resilience, development and foreign affairs capabilities in the round. It sets out the ways… Continue Reading
FTC Testifies on the Rights of Employees Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) imposes requirements on Consumer Reporting Agencies (CRAs) – which include the three major credit bureaus – and on employers that use the information to ensure that sensitive consumer report information is used with fairness, impartiality,… Continue Reading
NYCLU Settlement Ends Restriction on Photography Outside Federal Courthouses
News release: “In settling a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the federal government [October 18, 2010] recognized the publics right to take photographs and record videos in public spaces outside federal courthouses throughout the nation. The settlement comes after the NYCLU sued the federal government in April on behalf of a… Continue Reading
Study: Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research
Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. PLoS ONE. 2010;5(10):e13636+. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636. “Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher’s version by self-archiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on… Continue Reading
Retirement Savings Shortfalls for Today's Workers
Retirement Savings Shortfalls for Todays Workers, Employee Benefit Research Institute, October 2010, Vol. 31, No. 10: “Earlier this year, EBRI updated its Retirement Security Projection Model1 and determined that the overall retirement income adequacy for households currently ages 3662 had substantially improved since 2003 (VanDerhei and Copeland, 2010). Almost one-half of Baby Boomers2 and Gen… Continue Reading
UN Conference on Trade and Development launches UNCTADstat, new harmonized statistical database
“On 20 October 2010, celebration of the World Statistics Day, UNCTAD will launch UNCTADstat, its new data dissemination platform. All of UNCTAD´s online statistical databases, the Handbook of Statistics, the commodity prices and price indices, the Foreign Direct Investment statistics, and the Global databank on world trade in creative products have been harmonized and integrated… Continue Reading
State of Affairs: Three Years After Nisoor Square Accountability and Oversight of U.S. Private Security and Other Contractors
State of Affairs: Three Years After Nisoor Square Accountability and Oversight of U.S. Private Security and Other Contractors, Human Rights First, September 2010 “On September 16, 2007, Blackwater Worldwide (now Xe) private security contractors working for the U.S. Department of State killed 17 unarmed civilians and wounded 24 more in an unprovoked incident in Baghdads… Continue Reading
NYT: Hormone Therapy Worsens Breast Cancer, Study Finds
NYT: “Hormone treatment after menopause, already known to increase the risk of breast cancer, also makes it more likely that the cancer will be advanced and deadly, a study finds. Women who took hormones and developed breast cancer were more likely to have cancerous lymph nodes, a sign of more advanced disease, and were more… Continue Reading
