News release: “This morning, Google released their semi-annual transparency report, and once again, it revealed a troubling trend: Internet surveillance around the world continues to rise, with the United States leading the way in demands for user data. Google received over 21,000 requests for data on over 33,000 users in the last six months from governments around the world, a 70% increase since Google started releasing numbers in 2010. The United States accounted for almost 40% the total requests (8,438) and the number of users (14,791). The total numbers in the US for 2012 amounted to a 33% increase from 2011. And while Google only complied with two-thirds of the total requests globally, they complied with 88% of the requests in the United States.”
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Daily Archives: January 24, 2013
Office of Financial Research (OFR) Working Paper – CoCos, Bail-In, and Tail Risk
CoCos, Bail-In, and Tail Risk, by Nan Chen, Paul Glasserman, Behzad Nouri and Markus Pelger “Contingent convertibles (CoCos) and bail-in debt for banks have been proposed as potential mechanisms to enhance financial stability. They function by converting to equity when a bank approaches insolvency. We develop a capital structure model to analyze the incentives created… Continue Reading
Court Statistics for Fiscal Year 2012 Are Released
“Federal court statistical profiles are available for the nations 12 courts of appeal and 94 district courts for fiscal year 2012, the 12-month period ending September 30, 2012. Federal Court Management Statistics also provides national totals for the appellate and district courts, allowing the statistical totals of each individual court to be compared to a… Continue Reading
First Look at Key Demographic Characteristics of New Congressional Districts
“For the first time, the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey is providing access to detailed demographic data on congressional districts for the 113th Congress. These statistics include age, education, occupation, income and veteran status. They are accessible via Easy Stats, the Census Bureau’s new online tool offering quick and easy access to American Community Survey… Continue Reading
Redacted version of DNI Congressional Budget Justification Book for Fiscal Year 2009
Via Secrecy News: “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released a heavily redacted version of its Congressional Budget Justification Book for Fiscal Year 2009 in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Although most of the substance of the document has been withheld, a number of details of interest… Continue Reading
Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2012 Generosity Index
Generosity in Canada and the United States – 2012 Generosity Index “The Generosity Index measures private monetary generosity using two key indicators. The percentage of tax filers who donated to charity indicates the extent of generosity, while the percentage of aggregate personal income donated to charity indicates the depth of charitable giving. The jurisdictions included… Continue Reading
Bank Liquidity Hoarding and the Financial Crisis: An Empirical Evaluation
Bank Liquidity Hoarding and the Financial Crisis: An Empirical Evaluation, Jose Berrospide, 2013-03 “I test and nd supporting evidence for the precautionary motive hypothesis of liquidity hoarding for U.S. commercial banks during the recent nancial crisis. I fi nd that banks held more liquid assets in anticipation of future losses from securities write-downs. Exposure to securities… Continue Reading
Global Burden of Disease: Massive shifts reshape the health landscape worldwide
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: “Globally, health advances present most people with a devastating irony: avoid premature death but live longer and sicker. Thats one of the main findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010), a collaborative project led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the… Continue Reading
Columbia Journalism Report – Post Industrial Journalism
Post Industrial Journalism by C.W. Anderson, Emily Bell and Clay Shirky “The effect of the current changes in the news ecosystem has already been a reduction in the quality of news in the United States. On present evidence, we are convinced that journalism in this country will get worse before it gets better, and, in… Continue Reading
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog
“Published on 10 December 2012, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog: Scale, Workflow, Attention, by Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Vice President, Research and Chief Strategist, discusses the position of the catalog and uses it to illustrate more general discovery and workflow directions. There is a renaissance of interest in the catalog and… Continue Reading
