“In this second quarter edition of the Global Economic Outlook, Deloitte economists shed light on recent world events. News headlines have been crowded with the unexpected incidents taking place in the Middle East and Japan. The repercussions of these events have already prompted a renewed focus on rising energy costs and higher food prices, with… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Mortgage Monitor – Monthly Mortgage Performance Data
“LPS Mortgage Monitor is an in-depth report of mortgage industry performance. The monthly report is based on data from the companys market-leading repository of loan-level residential mortgage data and performance information, including more than 40 million active loans across the credit spectrum. This data is analyzed by LPS experts to produce over 30 charts and… Continue Reading
Deloitte – Asia Pacific Economic Outlook – June 2011
“The June 2011 edition of the Asia Pacific Economic Outlook gives a near-term outlook for Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand.” Continue Reading
Report: Life expectancy in most US counties falls behind worlds healthiest nations
News release: “While people in Japan, Canada, and other nations are enjoying significant gains in life expectancy every year, most counties within the United States are falling behind, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. IHME researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Imperial… Continue Reading
Export Control Reform Initiative: Strategic Trade Authorization License Exception
News release: “U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the next step in President Obama’s export control reform (ECR) initiative aimed at strengthening U.S. national security and ensuring the competitiveness of American companies abroad. The Department will implement today a new license exception, Strategic Trade Authorization (STA), that will facilitate exports between the United States… Continue Reading
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Book review: “More than 160 million females are missing from Asias population. Thats more than the entire female population of the United States. Gender imbalancewhich is mainly the result of sex selective abortionis no longer strictly an Asian problem. In Azerbaijan and Armenia, in Eastern Europe, and even among some groups in the United States,… Continue Reading
BEA: U.S. International Transactions: First Quarter 2011 Current Account
News release: “The U.S. current-account deficitthe combined balances on trade in goods and services, income, and net unilateral current transfersincreased to $119.3 billion (preliminary) in the first quarter of 2011, from $112.2 billion (revised) in the fourth quarter of 2010. The increase was more than accounted for by an increase in the deficit on goods.… Continue Reading
Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy
Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy, Department of Commerce Internet Policy Task Force, June 2011 “The Internet allows users to gather, store, process, and transfer vast amounts of data, including proprietary and sensitive business, transactional, and personal data. At the same time that businesses and consumers rely more and more on such capabilities, cybersecurity threats… Continue Reading
U.S. Conference of Mayors – Clean Energy Solutions for Americas Cities
The United States Conference of Mayors Clean Energy Solutions for Americas Cities – A summary of survey results, June 2011 “Most mayors expect their cities deployments of new energy technologies to increase over the next five years, despite todays economic climate. Three in four cities (75%) say their use of new energy technologies is likely… Continue Reading
Half of U.S. Respondent Businesses Were Home-Based, Majority Self-Financed, Census Bureau Reports
News release: “More than half (51.6 percent) of all businesses that responded to the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) were operated primarily from someone’s home in 2007, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau released today. Only 6.9 percent of these home-based businesses had $250,000 or more in receipts, while 57.1 percent… Continue Reading
GAO – Federal Funding and Monitoring
ACORN: Federal Funding and Monitoring [Reissued on June 17, 2011], GAO-11-484, June 14, 2011 Continue Reading
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary, May 2011
News release: “Regional and state unemployment rates were little changed in May. Twenty-four states recorded unemployment rate decreases, 13 states and the District of Columbia registered rate increases, and 13 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-three states and the District of Columbia posted unemployment rate decreases from… Continue Reading
