Via OCLC: “The “MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?” event took place 18-19 March at the University of Pennsylvania and was broadcast live online. Hosted by OCLC Research and University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the event featured thoughtful and provocative presentations about how libraries are already getting involved with MOOCs, and engaged attendees in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress
CRS: U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress. Shirley A. Kan, Specialist in Asian Security Affairs, March 19, 2013 “This CRS report, updated as warranted, discusses policy issues regarding military-to-military (mil-to-mil) contacts with the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and provides a record of major contacts and crises since 1993. The United States suspended military contacts… Continue Reading
Report – Banks that Used the Small Business Lending Fund to Exit TARP
Banks that Used the Small Business Lending Fund to Exit TARP, Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. April 9, 2013 “On September 27, 2010, Congress created the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) as part of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which permitted Treasury to invest up to… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Reduce Multiple Programs, Government Efficiency And Effectiveness,
2013 Annual Report – Actions Needed to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Other Financial Benefits, GAO-13-279SP, Apr 9, 2013 Government Efficiency And Effectiveness – Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Other Financial Benefits, GAO-13-496T, Apr 9, 2013 Presidential Helicopter – Acquisition Program Makes Progress in Balancing Requirements, Costs, and Schedule,… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board – Payments to 4.2 million borrowers covered by foreclosure agreement to begin April 12
News release: “Payments to 4.2 million borrowers are scheduled to begin on April 12 following an agreement reached by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve Board with 13 mortgage servicers. The agreement, which was reached earlier this year, provides $3.6 billion in cash payments to borrowers whose homes were… Continue Reading
Insurance and financial stability: a Basel view
Insurance and financial stability: a Basel view. “Prepared remarks by Jaime Caruana, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, before the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, Bottmingen, Switzerland, 20 March 2013. BIS General Manager Jaime Caruana speaks about the importance of the work that the International Association of Insurance Supervisors and the supervisory community… Continue Reading
Wage and price dynamics in a large emerging economy: The case of China
Wage and price dynamics in a large emerging economy: The case of China, by Carsten A Holz and Aaron Mehrotra. Working Papers No 409, April 2013 “This study finds that the growth in labour costs in China is not passed through fully to final prices in China, neither in the tradable goods sector nor in… Continue Reading
The Recess Appointment Power After Noel Canning v. NLRB
The Recess Appointment Power After Noel Canning v. NLRB: Constitutional Implications. Todd Garvey, Legislative Attorney, David H. Carpenter, Legislative Attorney – March 27, 2013 “Under the Appointments Clause, the President is empowered to nominate and appoint principal officers of the United States, but only with the advice and consent of the Senate. In addition to… Continue Reading
EPIC Sues FBI to Obtain Details of Massive Biometric ID Database
“EPIC has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI to obtain documents about “Next Generation Identification“, a massive database with biometric identifiers on millions of Americans. The EPIC lawsuit follows the FBI’s failure to respond to EPIC’s earlier FOIA requests for technical specifications and contracts. According to EPIC’s complaint, “When completed, the… Continue Reading
"Federal Agencies Feeling the Immediate Demand for Alternative Funding"
News release: “Sixty-two percent of Federal managers report personal experience with tighter budgets and 51 percent have seen the impact in programs that they depend on to complete their agency missions. These budget cuts increasingly put agency missions at risk and as a result agencies are exploring more innovative approaches to funding, according to a… Continue Reading
It Takes More Than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and Student Success
“Liberal Education and Americas Promise (LEAP) is a national advocacy, campus action, and research initiative that champions the importance of a twenty-first century liberal educationfor individuals and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality.” 2013 national survey of employers report, It Takes More Than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and… Continue Reading
Until Debt Do Us Part: Subnational Debt, Insolvency, and Markets
Canuto, Otaviano; Liu, Lili. 2013. Until Debt Do Us Part: Subnational Debt, Insolvency, and Markets.© Washington, DC: World Bank. Date: 2013-02-13 “With decentralization and urbanization, the debts of state and local governments and of quasi-public agencies have grown in importance. Rapid urbanization in developing countries requires large-scale infrastructure financing to help absorb influxes of rural… Continue Reading
