Bee Health: The Role of Pesticides, December 11, 2012 “Bees, both commercially managed honey bees and wild bees, play an important role in global food production. In the United States, the value of honey bees only as commercial pollinators in U.S. food production is estimated at about $15 billion to $20 billion annually. The estimated… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2013
CRS – Foreign Holdings of Federal Debt
Foreign Holdings of Federal Debt, Justin Murray, Information Research Specialist; Marc Labonte, Specialist in Macroeconomic Policy July 3, 2012 “This report presents current data on estimated ownership of U.S. Treasury securities and major holders of federal debt by country. Federal debt represents the accumulated balance of borrowing by the federal government. To finance federal borrowing,… Continue Reading
How Data and Social Pressure Can Reduce Home Energy Use
Yale environment360 – dave levitan: “Visit the website of Opower and your eye will be drawn to a counter in the corner, its digits ticking ever higher. The counter represents energy that the company says its customers have saved after it provided them data on electricity usage and employed behavioral science to change their consumption… Continue Reading
Towards a New Bretton Woods? The Financial Crisis, the Doha Round and the Future of the WTO
Towards a New Bretton Woods? The Financial Crisis, the Doha Round and the Future of the WTO, Roberto Soprano, Università degli Studi di Salerno, 2013. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Forthcoming) “The economic crisis has challenged the role of international organizations and in particular the Bretton Woods institutions which have often been criticized for not having provided… Continue Reading
CBO: Private-Sector Mandates in Federal Legislation
Private-Sector Mandates in Federal Legislation, January 15, 2013 “Federal laws and regulations sometimes require nonfederal entities to expend their resources to carry out Private-Sector Mandates in Federal Legislation national policies. The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA), enacted as Public Law 104-4, defines many of those requirements as federal mandates. The law aims to… Continue Reading
President Obama Unveils Proposals for Toughening Laws on Guns
Via New York Times: “At a White House event at noon (January 16, 2013), Mr. Obama announced plans to introduce legislation by next week that includes a ban on new assault weapons, limits on high-capacity magazines, expanded background checks for gun purchases and tougher gun trafficking laws to crack down on the spread of weapons… Continue Reading
Enhancements to U.S. Statutes at Large on FDsys
“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) recently enhanced the U.S. Statutes at Large collection on FDsys by adding descriptive metadata for public laws, private laws, concurrent resolutions, and presidential proclamations. For approximately 32,000 individual documents, the enhancements allow researchers improved searchability and retrieval by searching such metadata fields as title, SuDocs classification number, date, category,… Continue Reading
How Severe Was the Credit Cycle in the New York-Northern New Jersey Region?
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz “U.S. households accumulated record-high levels of debt in the 2000s, and then began a process of deleveraging following the Great Recession and financial crisis. In some parts of the country, the rise and fall in household indebtedness was quite a bit sharper than… Continue Reading
NYT – JPMorgan Report on Trading Loss Report
Report of JPMorgan Chase C0. Management Task Force Regarding 2012 CIO Losses, January 16, 2013 NYT DealBook: “In a 129-page report attached to its quarterly earnings on Wednesday, the bank dissected the multibillion-dollar trading loss at the chief investment office, outlining a breakdown at the highest levels of management and detailing the remedial steps it… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board – Beige Book – January 16, 2013
Beige Book – January 16, 2013 – Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District: “Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts indicated that economic activity has expanded since the previous Beige Book report, with all twelve Districts characterizing the pace of growth as either modest or moderate. Since the previous Beige… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Worker and Family Assistance, Force Structure
Worker and Family Assistance – Department of Defense Policies on Accommodating Children with Special Needs in Child Care Programs, GAO-13-165R, Jan 16, 2013 Force Structure – Army’s Annual Report on Modularity Progress Needs More Complete and Clear Information to Aid Decision Makers, GAO-13-183R, Jan 16, 2013 Continue Reading
Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment
Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Accepted manuscript online: 15 JAN 2013. “Black carbon is emitted in a variety of combustion processes and is found throughout the Earth system. Black carbon has a unique and important role in the Earths climate system because… Continue Reading
