NYT DealBook: “Jed S. Rakoff, a judge for the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Manhattan, has rejected the proposed $285 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup related to the sale of mortgage securities. Here is the judges 15-page opinion, which concluded that the pact was neither reasonable, nor… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Presidential Memorandum – Managing Government Records
“This memorandum begins an executive branch wide effort to reform records management policies and practices. Improving records management will improve performance and promote openness and accountability by better documenting agency actions and decisions. Records transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide the prism through which future generations will understand and learn from… Continue Reading
OECD Economic Outlook November 2011
“More than usual, world economic prospects depend on events, the nature and timing of which are highly uncertain. The projections presented in this Economic Outlook portray a scenario that rests on the assumptions that monetary policy remains very supportive (and, in some places, becomes more so), that sovereign debt and banking sector problems in the… Continue Reading
World Bank – Transition in Afghanistan: Looking Beyond 2014
Transition in Afghanistan: Looking Beyond 2014, November 21, 2011 “Transitionthe full assumption of Afghan responsibility for security by end-2014, the drawdown of most international military forces and the likely reduction in overall assistancewill have a profound impact on Afghanistans economic and political landscape, extending well beyond 2014. This study assesses the medium to longer term… Continue Reading
UN – Report of independent international commission of inquiry on Syrian Arab Republic
UN General Assembly, Human Rights Council Seventeenth special session, Report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, November 23, 2011. “The deteriorating situation in the Syrian Arab Republic prompted the Human Rights Council to establish an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate alleged violations of human rights since March… Continue Reading
Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update
Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update, by Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko, and Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “This paper provides updated estimates of the impact of three financial frictionsnegative equity, mortgage lock-in, and property tax lock-inon household mobility. We add the 2009 wave of the American Housing Survey (AHS) to our… Continue Reading
Digitized: Audubons Birds of America, accompanied by his Ornithological Biography
“The University of Pittsburgh is fortunate to own one of the rare, complete sets of John James Audubons Birds of America. It is considered to be the single most valuable set of volumes in the collections of the University Library System (ULS). Indeed, only 120 complete sets are known to exist. While Audubon was creating… Continue Reading
Pew: Why Americans use social media
Why Americans use social media – Social networking sites are appealing as a way to maintain contact with close ties and reconnect with old friends, by Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, 11/14/2011 “Two-thirds of online adults (66%) use social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn. These internet users say that connections with… Continue Reading
Education Commission of the States: Policies for Open Enrollment Database
ECS State Policies for Open Enrollment Database: “This database contains information about the state policies for open enrollment in each state. To one degree or another, open-enrollment policies allow a student to transfer to the public school of his or her choice. There are two basic types of open-enrollment policies in place in the states… Continue Reading
Cross-Cutting Themes in Advanced Economies with Emerging Market Banking Links
Cross-Cutting Themes in Advanced Economies with Emerging Market Banking Links, International Monetary Fund, November 14, 2011 “The most recent decade has seen a growing presence of banks headquartered in advanced economies (AEs) expanding into emerging markets (EMs). These expansions have brought some benefits to both home and host countries, but the global financial crisis has… Continue Reading
Antibiotic Use Visualizations on ResistanceMap and the Drug Resistance Index
News release via Andrea Titus: “Two big updates from Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy’s [CDDEP] Extending the Cure project… First, ResistanceMap has released its first ever interactive visualizations on antibiotic use. The new maps show trends in outpatient prescribing across the United States over time, and viewers can sort data by geography (at… Continue Reading
HealthCare.gov Insurance Finder Gets Better for Consumers
News release: “…the Department of Health and Human Services updated the HealthCare.gov Insurance Finder with more information on private insurance plans. Created under the Affordable Care Act, www.HealthCare.gov was launched July 1, 2010, and is the first website of its kind to bring information about private and public health coverage options into one place to… Continue Reading
