Monetary Policy and Job Creation, Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin At the University of Maryland Smith School of Business Distinguished Speaker Series, Washington, D.C., September 26, 2011 “Finally, and perhaps most comprehensively, it is worth observing that the financial crisis has undermined the wealth of many Americans. Low- and moderate-income families entered the recession with little… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2003-2010
CRS: Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2003-2010, Richard F. Grimmett, Specialist in International Security, September 22, 2011 “This report is prepared annually to provide Congress with official, unclassified, quantitative data on conventional arms transfers to developing nations by the United States and foreign countries for the preceding eight calendar years for use in its… Continue Reading
IG Evaluation of Whether FHFA Has Sufficient Capacity to Examine the GSEs
Evaluation of Whether FHFA Has Sufficient Capacity to Examine the GSEs, September 23, 2011 “FHFA-OIG has identified shortfalls in the Agencys examination coverage, particularly in the areas of Real Estate Owned and default-related legal services. Furthermore, statements by senior FHFA officials and internal Agency reviews corroborate that FHFA has too few examiners overall to ensure… Continue Reading
Pew – Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking Up from the American Dream
“The Economic Mobility Project’s report, Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking Up from the American Dream, examines potential factors that cause some Americans who grow up in the middle class to fall down the economic ladder as adults. Authored by Gregory Acs during his tenure at the Urban Institute, the report finds that a… Continue Reading
The Mortgage Market in 2010: Highlights from the Data Reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
The Mortgage Market in 2010: Highlights from the Data Reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act – Robert B. Avery, Neil Bhutta, Kenneth P. Brevoort, and Glenn B. Canner, September 22, 2011 “This article presents a number of key findings from a review of the data that mortgage lending institutions reported for 2010 under the… Continue Reading
Gallup – In Greece, "Suffering" Up Sharply to 24%
Gallup Poll: “The percentage of Greeks who rate their lives so poorly that they are considered “suffering” has more than tripled to 24% in 2011, from 7% in 2007. Greeks are more likely to be suffering than “thriving,” a reality uncommon in the developed world…Greeks’ current life evaluation — with 14% thriving, 62% struggling, and… Continue Reading
Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space
Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space, by Kalev H. Leetaru. First Monday, Volume 16, Number 9 – 5 September 2011. “News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast to represent nearly half of the news monitored across the world today by Western… Continue Reading
Criminal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information
CRS – Criminal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information, Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney. September 8, 2011 “The online publication of classified defense documents and diplomatic cables by the organization WikiLeaks and subsequent reporting by The New York Times and other news media have focused attention on whether such publication violates U.S. criminal… Continue Reading
IMF: 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration
Aid Effectiveness 2005-10: Progress in Implementing the Paris Declaration, September 2011 “When developed and developing countries committed themselves to the 2005 Paris Declaration principles for achieving more effective aid, they agreed not only to a set of principles, but also to meeting a set of measurable targets by 2010. This is an important feature of… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Releases 2010 American Community Survey Single Year Estimates
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau today released findings from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS), the most relied-on source for up-to-date socioeconomic information every year. The release covers more than 40 topics, such as educational attainment, income, health insurance coverage, occupation, language spoken at home, nativity, ancestry and selected monthly homeowner costs. The estimates… Continue Reading
New Book by Harvard Professor of Psychology Documents the Decline of War
Via WSJ: Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. This essay is adapted from his new book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” published by Viking. “Believe it or not, the world of the past was much worse. Violence has been in decline for thousands of… Continue Reading
Census Bureau – Commuting in the United States: 2009
Commuting in the United States: 2009, a report that provides additional layers of analysis about commuting patterns for the nation and metro areas. Based on the 2009 American Community Survey Reports (ACS), the analysis gives a historical perspective of the nation’s commuting patterns. It also looks at how our commutes differ based on how we… Continue Reading
