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U.S. Treasury Office of Intelligence and Analysis Strategic Direction 2012-2015

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U.S. Treasury Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA) Strategic Direction 2012-2015

  • “OIA’s intelligence analysis has been critical to Treasury efforts to stem the flow of funding to terrorist groups and disrupt weapons proliferation and other illicit networks around the world. Drawing on OIA’s analytic expertise, Treasury has designated multiple individuals and organizations for providing support to al-Qa’ida and other terrorist groups, for trafficking in narcotics, and for engaging in transnational criminal activity. OIA actively supports Treasury’s role in pressuring Iran, which includes bilateral, multilateral, and U.S. financial measures targeting the Iranian proliferation networks, the IRGC-Qods Force, and the Iranian financial and energy sectors. OIA also provides expertise and analytical support to inform Treasury efforts to disrupt North Korean proliferation and regime finance networks, Syrian government abuse of human rights, Mexican transnational criminal networks, and to target
    financial institutions that threaten the U.S. financial system.”

  • Related postings on financial system

    • Performance.gov provides a window on the Obama Administration's approach to improving performance and accountability

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    “Performance.gov is a window to the Administration’s efforts to deliver a more effective, smarter, and leaner government. The site gives the public, government agencies, Members of Congress, the media, and others a view of the progress underway in cutting waste, streamlining government, and improving performance. Specifically, Performance.gov provides information on the following areas of focus:… Continue Reading

    Treasury – Update on Wall Street Reform

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    “Treasury and the independent regulators have made meaningful progress implementing the law, which is vital to restoring trust in the underlying safety, stability, and integrity of the financial system, and to rebuilding a pro-growth, pro-investment environment. To outline the progress made, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has developed an overview of where reform stands… Continue Reading

    Reconciling Krugman and Keen using nef model

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    Reconciling Krugman and Keen – An analysis of the relation between debt and aggregate demand using nef model, Emanuele Campiglio, Giovanni Bernardo, New Economics Foundation London July 23, 2012 “In this presentation we use nef macroeconomic model to clarify Keen’s analysis. We do so by explicitly identifying two different variables: 1. Realized expenditures (ER); 2.… Continue Reading

    Report – The increasing reliance of the EU on fish from elsewhere

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    “European Union (EU) fish stocks are in an unprecedentedly poor state yet fish consumption throughout Europe remains high. The EU has been able to maintain and even expand its levels of consumption by sourcing fish from other regions of the world, both through the catches of its distant-water fleet and imports. This report highlights Europe’s… Continue Reading

    The Book of the States 2012

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    The Book of the States, The Council of State Governments. “Published since 1935, The Book of the States has been the reference tool of choice for more than half a century, providing information, answers and comparisons for all 56 U.S. states and territories. Within The Book of the States, you can find analysis and comparative… Continue Reading

    Supervisory guidance for managing risks associated with the settlement of foreign exchange transactions

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    Supervisory guidance for managing risks associated with the settlement of foreign exchange transactions – consultative document, August 2012 “Since the BCBS’s Supervisory guidance for managing settlement risk in foreign exchange transactions (2000) was published, the foreign exchange market has made significant strides in reducing the risks associated with the settlement of FX transactions. Substantial FX… Continue Reading

    Print Management at "Mega-scale"

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    Print Management at “Mega-scale”: a Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America – An OCLC Research Report by: Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas, JD Shipengrover. “This report explores a counterfactual scenario where local US and Canadian print book collections are consolidated into regional shared collections based on the mega-regions framework. We begin by briefly… Continue Reading

    The Mobile Workforce and Telecommuter Tax Acts

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    Combining the Mobile Workforce and Telecommuter Tax Acts, Edward A. Zelinsky. Yeshiva University – Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 371 State Tax Notes, Vol. 65, No. 319, August 2012 [via SSRN] “Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2012 (“the Mobile Workforce Act”) and the Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act of 2012 (“the Telecommuter… Continue Reading

    The Ocean Health Index

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    “The Ocean Health Index is a new, comprehensive measure of the ocean’s overall condition – one that treats people and nature as integrated parts of a healthy system. Here begins a journey to sustainably manage our relationship with Earth’s greatest resource… [the site includes] An Index Organized by 10 Public Goals – Evaluated globally and… Continue Reading