Twitter Blog: “One glance at the numbers, and its easy to see why pundits are already calling 2012 the Twitter election. More Tweets are sent every two days today than had ever been sent prior to Election Day 2008 and Election Day 2008s Tweet volume represents only about six minutes of Tweets today. All this explosive growth in conversation has fueled Twitter as a platform for civic debate and created a massive data set for analysis data our Government & Politics team has used to study the State of the Union, a FOX News debate, Super Tuesday, gay marriage and other election-year topics. For the first time, its possible to measure conversations that just an election cycle ago were limited to coffee shops, dinner tables and water coolers. Today, were launching the Twitter Political Index, a daily measurement of Twitter users feelings towards the candidates as expressed in nearly two million Tweets each week.”
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Daily Archives: August 1, 2012
FRASER Digital Library Adds Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection
Katrina Stierholz – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: FRASER, “a digital library dedicated to preserving the nations economic history, recently added the Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection. The new collection provides access to nearly 10,000 documents from the archival collection housed by the University of Utah. Eccles served as Chairman (1934-48) and member (1948-51)… Continue Reading
FTC Seeks Comments on Additional Proposed Revisions to Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission is publishing a Federal Register Notice seeking public comments on additional proposed modifications to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule. In updating the Rule to keep current with technology advances, in September 2011, the FTC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on proposed changes to the Commission’s… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Contingency Contracting, Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices, International Affairs, Influenza Pandemic, Medicaid Expansion, Medicare
Contingency Contracting – Agency Actions to Address Recommendations by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, GAO-12-854R, Aug 1, 2012 Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices – Multiple DOD Organizations are Developing Numerous Initiatives, GAO-12-861R, Aug 1, 2012 International Affairs – Ensuring Drug Quality in Global Health Programs, GAO-12-897R, Aug 1, 2012 Influenza Pandemic – Agencies… Continue Reading
U.S. poverty rates higher, safety net weaker than in peer countries
U.S. poverty rates higher, safety net weaker than in peer countries. by Elise Gould and Hilary Wething | July 24, 2012, Issue Brief #339 “Poverty rates in the United States increased over the 2000s, a trend exacerbated by the Great Recession and its aftermath. By 2010, just over 46 million people fell below the U.S.… Continue Reading
Report – A young persons guide to Social Security
“Many young people dont think Social Security will be there for them when they retire. Coupled with the doubt about Social Securitys longevity is a general apathy toward learning its basic functions and how it operates. Young people are uninformed and therefore misinformed. They do not understand how Social Security works, who it affects, and… Continue Reading
Report – Continuing Innovation in Information Technology
“Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform, all aspects of our lives: commerce and finance, education, employment, energy, health care, manufacturing, government, national security, transportation, communications, entertainment, science, and engineering. IT and its impact on the U.S. economy-both directly (the… Continue Reading
Energy Information Administration – Egypt country analysis brief
Country Analysis Brief: “Egypt is the largest oil producer in Africa that is not a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the second largest natural gas producer on the continent, following Algeria. Egypt also plays a vital role in international energy markets through the operation of the Suez Canal andSuez-Mediterranean (SUMED)… Continue Reading
Amnesty International – Annual Report 2012
Amnesty International Report 2012 “documents specific restrictions on free speech in at least 91 countries as well as cases of people tortured or otherwise ill-treated in at least 101 countries in many cases for taking part in demonstrations.” Continue Reading
Public recapitalisations and bank risk: evidence from loan spreads and leverage
Public recapitalisations and bank risk: evidence from loan spreads and leverage, by Michael Brei and Blaise Gadanecz, Working Papers No 383, July 2012 A number of countries’ authorities put in place bank rescue packages using public funds in response to the global financial crisis. Were these public recapitalisations followed by a reduction of risk in… Continue Reading
