Follow-up Audit of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s W76 Nuclear Warhead Refurbishment Program, DOE/IG-0870, September 2012 “The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration is responsible for ensuring that the Nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile continues to meet National defense requirements. As part of that effort, NNSA is refurbishing the aging W76 nuclear warhead with the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2012
A New Heuristic Measure of Fragility and Tail Risks: Application to Stress Testing
Taleb, Nassim N., Canetti, Elie R.D., Kinda, Tidiane, Loukoianova, Elena and Schmieder, Christian, A New Heuristic Measure of Fragility and Tail Risks: Application to Stress Testing (August 2012). IMF Working Paper No. 12/216. Available at SSRN “This paper presents a simple heuristic measure of tail risk, which is applied to individual bank stress tests and… Continue Reading
Google Launches Free Tag Manager
Google Analytics: “Over the past few years, weve seen massive improvements in digital marketing sophistication and capabilities. Today theres a rich suite of tools allowing marketers to gain better insights, reach audiences in new ways, and develop improved marketing campaigns so users have better web experiences. Yet many modern marketing toolslike web analytics, conversion tracking,… Continue Reading
Investigative Report Criticizes Counterterrorism Reporting, Waste at State & Local Intelligence Fusion Centers
News release: “A two-year bipartisan investigation by the U. S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has found that Department of Homeland Security efforts to engage state and local intelligence fusion centers has not yielded significant useful information to support federal counterterrorism intelligence efforts. Its troubling that the very fusion centers that were designed to share… Continue Reading
BLS Launches Data Sets Finder Search Tool Launched in Beta
“Data Finder is a new search and navigation tool for BLS time series data available on the BLS website. Rather than searching individual data sets, Data Finder allows users to conveniently search multiple data sets all at once. Users can extract specific data by searching by keyword or by filtering through multiple topics, measures, and… Continue Reading
Dealing with financial systemic risk: the contribution of macroprudential policies
Dealing with financial systemic risk: the contribution of macroprudential policies. Panel remarks by Jaime Caruana, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, Central Bank of Turkey/G20 Conference on “Financial systemic risk”, Istanbul, 27-28 September 2012. “There are important two-way interactions between macroprudential policy and other areas of public policy. These interactions put a premium… Continue Reading
Currency intervention and the global portfolio balance effect: Japanese lessons
Currency intervention and the global portfolio balance effect: Japanese lessons, by Petra Gerlach-Kristen, Robert N. McCauley and Kazuo Ueda, Working Papers No 389, October 2012 “This paper shows that the Japanese foreign exchange interventions in 2003/04 seem to have lowered long-term interest rates in a wide range of countries, including Japan. It seems that this… Continue Reading
CBO – The 2012 Long-Term Projections for Social Security
The 2012 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information “Outlays for Social Security totaled a little under $800 billion in fiscal year 2012, equal to about 5 percent of gross domestic product and one-fifth of federal spending. Of the 56 million people who currently receive Social Security benefits, about 70 percent are retired workers or… Continue Reading
Government Agency Consortium Launches FOIAonline
“FOIAonline is a tool that allows both the public and agency staff to make, monitor, and manage FOIA requests from a single website. Requesters may choose to submit requests and file appeals by registering for an account. This will also allow requesters to track progress and communicate directly with agency staff. Prior to making a… Continue Reading
Losing My Revolution: How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost?
Losing My Revolution – How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost? Hany M. SalahEldeen and Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University, Department of Computer Science. September 13, 2012 “Social media content has grown exponentially in the recent years and the role of social media has evolved from just narrating life events to… Continue Reading
Pew – A Record 24 Million Latinos Are Eligible to Vote
A Record 24 Million Latinos Are Eligible to Vote, But Turnout Rate Has Lagged That of Whites, Blacks “A record 23.7 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. This is up… Continue Reading
Health Status, Health Insurance, and Medical Services Utilization: 2010
Census – Health Status, Health Insurance, and Medical Services Utilization: 2010. Current Population Reports by Brett OHara and Kyle Caswell, Issued October 2012 “The national health spending for Americans has increased in recent years and is projected to continue on a rapid growth trajectory. This phenomenon is subject to the interplay of many forces, both… Continue Reading
