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Monthly Archives: August 2011
EIA: Norway is the largest oil producer and exporter in western Europe
Norway Country Analysis Brief: “Norway provided 12 percent of OECD Europe’s crude oil imports and 18 percent of its natural gas imports in 2010. Norway is the largest oil producer and exporter in western Europe Norway is the second largest exporter of natural gas after Russia, and ranks fifth in world natural gas production.” Read… Continue Reading
BEA: Personal Income for Metropolitan Areas, 2010
Personal Income for Metropolitan Areas, 2010: “Personal income rose in 2010 in all but four of the nations 366 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal income in the metropolitan portion of the United States rose 2.9 percent in 2010 after falling 1.9 percent in… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Acquisition Planning, Information Security
Acquisition Planning – Opportunities to Build Strong Foundations for Better Services Contracts, GAO-11-672, August 9, 2011 Information Security – State Has Taken Steps to Implement a Continuous Monitoring Application, but Key Challenges Remain, GAO-11-149, August 8, 2011 Continue Reading
Report: Principles of Effective State Sentencing and Corrections Polic
Principles of Effective State Sentencing and Corrections Policy – A Report of the NCSL Sentencing and Corrections Work Group, August 2011 “The issues addressed by the NCSL work group reflect the important role of state legislatures in enacting policies that manage prison populations and costs, address offender and community needs, and contribute to the safe… Continue Reading
Sierra Club Report: Giant Fish Blenders: How Power Plants Kill Fish & Damage Our Waterways
Giant Fish Blenders: How Power Plants Kill Fish & Damage Our Waterways, Sierra Club, August 2011 “A power plant with once-through cooling draws hundreds of millions, in some cases billions, of gallons of water each day from the closest lake, river or ocean and indiscriminately sucks in whatever aquatic life is near the intake pipe.… Continue Reading
White House Announces First Ever Oil Savings Standards for Heavy Duty Trucks, Buses
News release: “Today, President Obama [met] with industry officials to discuss the first-of-their-kind fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas pollution standards for work trucks, buses, and other heavy duty vehicles and to thank them for their leadership in finalizing a successful national program for these vehicles. This meeting marked the administrations announcement of the standards, which… Continue Reading
IndustryWeek U.S. 500
“IndustryWeek U.S. 500 is IndustryWeek’s report on the 500 largest publicly held U.S. manufacturing companies companies based on revenue Search features: to order by revenue, click on the revenue title. To order by revenue growth, click on the revenue growth title. To order alphabetically, click on the company name title. To order by rank, click… Continue Reading
US Trade Online Updated with June 2011 Statistics
June 2011 trade statistics are now available on USA Trade Online, the official source of U.S. merchandise data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Continue Reading
Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II
Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II – Ahmed Al-Darwish, Michael Hafeman, Gregorio Impavido, Malcolm Kemp, and Padraic OMalley. August 2011, WP/11/187 “In todays financial system, complex financial institutions are connected through an opaque network of financial exposures. These connections contribute to financial deepening and greater savings allocation efficiency, but are also unstable… Continue Reading
New FFIEC Guidelines: Full Text Unabridged Supplement Focuses on Risk Assessments, Customer Awareness
Supplement to Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment “The purpose of this Supplement to the 2005 Guidance [Supplement] is to reinforce the Guidance’s risk management framework and update the Agencies’ expectations regarding customer authentication, layered security, or other controls in the increasingly hostile online environment. The Supplement reiterates and reinforces the expectations described in the… Continue Reading
Global Financial Stability Report GFSR Market Update
IMF Global Financial Stability Report GFSR Market Update, June 17, 2011 “Since the publication of the April 2011 Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR), financial risks have risen for three reasons. First, while a multi-speed global recovery remains the base case, downside risks to this baseline have increased. Second, concern about debt sustainability and support for… Continue Reading
