“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has made available the Congressional Pictorial Directory: 112th Congress on GPOs Federal Digital System (FDsys), a one-stop site to authentic, published Government information. GPO employees designed and created the Pictorial Directory, which features a color photograph of each Member of the House of Representatives and the Senate and details… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Federal Reserve – Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States
Z.1 Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States – Flows and Outstandings, First Quarter 2011, June 9, 2011: “Debt of the domestic nonfinancial sectors expanded at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2¼ percent in the first quarter of 2011, about two percentage points less than the pace registered in 2010. Household debt declined… Continue Reading
Pew Internet Twitter Update 2011
13% of online adults use Twitter Half of Twitter users access the service on the go via mobile phone, Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, 6/1/2011 “Twitter adoption is particularly high among non-whites Non-white internet users continue to have higher rates of Twitter use than their white counterparts; indeed, the Twitter adoption gap between African-Americans and… Continue Reading
Obama Administration Releases May Housing Scorecard Featuring New Making Home Affordable Servicer Assessments
News release: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury released the May edition of the Obama Administration’s Housing Scorecard. New to this months report are detailed assessments for the 10 largest mortgage servicers participating in the Administrations Making Home Affordable Program, setting a new industry benchmark… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve seeks comment on annual capital plan reviews
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board is seeking comment on a proposal to require top-tier U.S. bank holding companies with total consolidated assets of $50 billion or greater to submit annual capital plans for review. The aim of the capital plan review, which builds on the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) conducted earlier this… Continue Reading
BIS – Monetary policy in a world with macroprudential policy
Monetary policy in a world with macroprudential policy, Speech by Mr Jaime Caruana, General Manager of the BIS, at the SAARCFINANCE Governors’ Symposium 2011, Kerala, 11 June 2011. “In what follows, I will define macroprudential policy as the use of primarily prudential tools to limit system-wide financial risk, and so prevent disruption to key financial… Continue Reading
BIS – Introductory remarks – Financial crises: the role of deposit insurance
Introductory remarks by Mr Hervé Hannoun, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the IAIS 2011 Research Conference – Financial crises: the role of deposit insurance, Basel, 8 June 2011. “The vital contribution of deposit insurance to financial stability was one of many lessons from the financial crisis. Even though there is a great variety… Continue Reading
Report: The Impact of Deferring Retirement Age on Retirement Income Adequacy
The Impact of Deferring Retirement Age on Retirement Income Adequacy, June 2011, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Issue Brief #358 “LOWEST-INCOME LEVELS, 50-50 CHANCE OF ADEQUACY: Retirement Security Projection Model® (RSPM) baseline results indicate that the lowest preretirement income quartile would need to defer retirement age to 84 before 90 percent of the households would have… Continue Reading
Bloomerberg: World's Most Expensive Cities 2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek: “Americans might complain about the high cost of living, but overseas the U.S. dollar is even weaker. Find out where it buys the least.” World’s Most Expensive Cities 2011 20 Countries With the Highest Proportion of Millionaires America’s Most Expensive Blocks Continue Reading
NOAA announces agency-wide move to cloud-based unified messaging technology
News release: “NOAA announced an $11.5 million, three-year award to Earth Resources Technologies, Inc. for cloud-based unified messaging services. The agency-wide transition will modernize e-mail and calendar infrastructure, integrate collaborative tools and facilitate synchronization with mobile devices to better support NOAAs mission and its nationwide workforce. As the largest federal agency to adopt cloud technology… Continue Reading
Deloitte: If not BRICs, then what? Comparing BRICs and G6 nations in fossil fuels
“A new report, If not BRICs, then what? Comparing BRICs and G6 nations in fossil fuels compares the up-and-coming BRIC nations to the G6 in fossil fuels. Long acknowledged by analysts and the media as new regions of economic growth, the same does not necessarily hold true when comparing reserves, production and consumption of fossil… Continue Reading
NATO Leveraging Twitter for Airstrikes in Libya
Wired: “In the early days of the Libya war, U.S. commanders were adamant that they didnt communicate with the Libyan rebels about what targets to bomb. As it turns out, they dont need to. Theyve got Twitter. NATO officials conducting air strikes on forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi dont have soldiers on the ground to… Continue Reading
