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New GAO Reports – TARP, Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, Preventive Health Activities

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  • Troubled Asset Relief Program – Treasury Sees Some Returns as It Exits Programs and Continues to Fund Mortgage Programs,
    GAO-13-192, Jan 7, 2013

  • Temporary Assistance For Needy Families – More Accountability Needed to Reflect Breadth of Block Grant Services, GAO-13-33, Dec 6, 2012
  • Preventive Health Activities – Available Information on Federal Spending, Cost Savings, and International Comparisons Has Limitations, GAO-13-49, Dec 6, 2012

FTC Issues 2012 Update of Horizontal Merger Investigation Data Report

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News release: “To promote transparency in merger enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission released an updated staff report on the agency’s major investigations of horizontal mergers. The update adds four more years of data to the agency’s previous report, which was issued in 2008. Horizontal mergers involve two firms that are competitors or have overlapping lines… Continue Reading

New Bipartisan Policy Center Analysis Shows Debt Ceiling Limit Fast Approaching

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Could Hit Ceiling as Early as Mid-February: “An analysis released today by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) confirms that the federal government will be unable to meet all of its spending obligations as early as mid-February unless the debt ceiling is raised. Click here to read the analysis. “Based on financial data from Treasury, we… Continue Reading

Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

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CRS – Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy, Kenneth Katzman. Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs. January 4, 2013 “The Administration view is that, no matter the U.S. and allied drawdown schedule, Afghan stability after the 2014 transition is at risk from weak and corrupt Afghan governance and insurgent safe haven in Pakistan. Among other… Continue Reading

Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery

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Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery, By Doris Meissner, Donald M. Kerwin, Muzaffar Chishti, and Claire Bergeron. Migration Policy Institute, January 2013. “The US government spends more on federal immigration enforcement than on all other principal federal criminal law enforcement agencies combined, and has allocated nearly $187 billion for… Continue Reading

Emergency Preparedness and Public Health: The Lessons of Hurricane Sandy

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Powell, Tia, Hanfling, Dan and Gostin, Lawrence O., Emergency Preparedness and Public Health: The Lessons of Hurricane Sandy (November 16, 2012). JAMA Online, 2012; Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-189. Available at SSRN “When Hurricane Sandy hit downtown Manhattan, three neighboring hospitals each made different decisions about when to evacuate. Across the metro region,… Continue Reading

Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision endorses revised liquidity standard for banks

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Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision endorses revised liquidity standard for banks. January 6, 2013 “The Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, met today to consider the Basel Committee’s amendments to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) as a minimum standard. It unanimously… Continue Reading

Foreign Banks in the U.S.: A Primer

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Foreign Banks in the U.S.: A Primer, William Goulding and Daniel E. Nolle “This paper describes the foreign banking landscape in the United States. It begins by establishing a vocabulary for discussion of the subject, and then identifies a number of important data-related issues. With that information in hand, the remainder of the paper focuses… Continue Reading