Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies, U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of International Affairs. May 25, 2012 “Global economic growth weakened in the second half of 2011. Strains from Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and stresses in some European banking sectors weighed on confidence and economic activity. In addition, the rise… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Total cost of ownership of open source software: a report for the UK Cabinet Office
“The Cabinet Office and London School of Economics (LSE) have published research into the Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source Software, by Maha Shaikh and Tony Cornford, Version 8.5 Final, November 2011, Unclassified. The report has beejointly financed by the Cabinet Office and OpenForum Academy, together with some of its supporters, including Alfresco, Deloitte,… Continue Reading
FTC Testifies on Efforts to Protect Consumer Privacy
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission testified before Congress about the agencys efforts to protect consumer privacy, including the FTCs support for implementation of a Do Not Track mechanism that would allow consumers to control the tracking of their online activities across websites, and other approaches recommended in its recent privacy report. In delivering Commission… Continue Reading
C-SPAN Video Library – Searchable database of programs aired since 1987
“The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, almost totaling over 191,000 hours, is contained in the C-SPAN Archives and immediately accessible through the database and electronic archival systems developed and maintained by the C-SPAN Archives. The Archives records all… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Defense Infrastructure, Disability Employment
Defense Infrastructure – Documentation Lacking to Fully Support How DOD Determined Specifications for the Landstuhl Replacement Medical Center, GAO-12-622, May 25, 2012 Disability Employment – Further Action Needed to Oversee Efforts to Meet Federal Government Hiring Goals, GAO-12-568, May 25, 2012: “The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Labor (Labor) have taken… Continue Reading
Labor Force Characteristics of Foreign-born Workers News Release
Labor Force Characteristics of Foreign-born Workers News Release: “The unemployment rate for the foreign born was 9.1 percent in 2011, down from 9.8 percent in 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The jobless rate of the native born was 8.9 percent in 2011, compared with 9.6 percent in the prior year. The… Continue Reading
Theory of Asset Pricing, Performance Evaluation for Minority Banks with Implications for Bank Failure Prediction
A Theory of Asset Pricing and Performance Evaluation for Minority Banks with Implications for Bank Failure Prediction, Compensating Risk, and CAMELS Rating, Godfrey Cadogan, December 27, 2011 “This paper introduces a comprehensive theory of performance evaluation and asset pricing for minority (type-m) banks including, but not limited to, CAMELS rating, bank failure prediction, compensating risks,… Continue Reading
Obama administration presents national plan to fight Alzheimers disease
News release: “Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released an ambitious national plan to fight Alzheimers disease. The plan was called for in the National Alzheimers Project Act (NAPA), which President Obama signed into law in January 2011. The National Plan to Address Alzheimers Disease sets forth five goals, including the development of effective… Continue Reading
The situation of Roma in 11 EU Member States
UN: “Many Roma continue to face discrimination and social exclusion across the European Union (EU), according to a new report published jointly by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and UNDP. The situation of Roma is on average worse than the situation of non-Roma who live close by. The report is based on… Continue Reading
EFF: Google Releases New Copyright Transparency Report
News release: “Google expanded its transparency reports program today by releasing a detailed report of content removal requests from copyright holders. The new copyright report joins its semi-annual government takedown transparency report, and covers more than 95% of the copyright takedown requests it has received for Search results since July 2011.1 Though Google has posted… Continue Reading
AP Report – Top CEO pay equals 3,489 years for typical worker
Seth Bornstein – AP: “David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 million, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.” “Top U.S. public companies made only modest increases to CEO pay levels in 2011, despite strong company profitability,… Continue Reading
Disappearing Phone Booths – Privacy in the Digital Age
Disappearing Phone Booths – Privacy in the Digital Age, by Erica Newland, May 2012 “I will…explain why the confluence of at least four circumstances (1) digital ubiquity, (2) the increasing number of parties that take part in our daily transactions, (3) the commodification and monetization of data, (4) and woefully out-of-date privacy laws … Continue Reading
