Global Investigative Journalism Network: Global Guide to Resources, by Kate Willson “As our governments and businesses become increasingly flush with information, more and bigger data are becoming available from across the globe. Increasingly, investigative reporters need to know how to obtain, clean, and analyze structured information in this digital world. Otherwise, they and the news… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
EIA – United Kingdom Country Analysis Brief
The United Kingdom is the largest producer of oil and the second-largest producer of natural gas in the European Union The United Kingdom (UK) is the largest producer of oil and the second-largest producer of natural gas in the European Union (EU). Following years of exports of both fuels, the UK became a net importer… Continue Reading
Updated Budget Projections: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023
“If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, CBO estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008. Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this yearat 4.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)will be less than half as large as… Continue Reading
IRS IG – Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Organizations for Review
Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review, Report Date: 05/14/2013. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. “The IRS used inappropriate criteria that identified for review Tea Party and other organizations applying for tax-exempt status based upon their names or policy positions instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention. Ineffective management: 1)… Continue Reading
New York Fed: Household Debt and Credit Report
“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Household Debt and Credit Report provides a quarterly snapshot of household trends in borrowing and indebtedness, including data about mortgages, student loans, credit cards, auto loans and delinquencies. The report aims to help community groups, small businesses, state and local governments and the public to better understand, monitor… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Climate Change, Data Center Consolidation, Defense Infrastructure
Climate Change – Future Federal Adaptation Efforts Could Better Support Local Infrastructure Decision Makers, GAO-13-242, Apr 12, 2013 Data Center Consolidation – Strengthened Oversight Needed to Achieve Billions of Dollars in Savings, GAO-13-627T, May 14, 2013 Data Center Consolidation – Strengthened Oversight Needed to Achieve Cost Savings Goal, GAO-13-378, Apr 23, 2013 Defense Infrastructure –… Continue Reading
FTC Issues Annual Financial Acts Enforcement Letter to CFPB
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has issued its annual letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on FTC enforcement and related activities regarding the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Consumer Leasing Act (CLA), Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA), and Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). This year’s letter also discusses the Dodd-Frank Act, and… Continue Reading
Creating a Safer Financial System: Will the Volcker, Vickers, and Liikanen Structural Measures Help?
Creating a Safer Financial System: Will the Volcker, Vickers, and Liikanen Structural Measures Help? Vinãls, José; Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla; Surti,Ja; Narain,Aditya; Erbenova,Michaela; Chow, Julian. May 14, 2013 “The U.S., the U.K., and more recently, the E.U., have proposed policy measures directly targeting complexity and business structures of banks. Unlike other, price-based reforms (e.g., Basel 3 and… Continue Reading
Paper – Are elite journals declining?
Via arXiv.orgL: Are Elite Journals Declining? “Previous work indicates that over the past 20 years, the highest quality work have been published in an increasingly diverse and larger group of journals. In this paper we examine whether this diversification has also affected the handful of elite journals that are traditionally considered to be the best.… Continue Reading
Fund Flows in Rational Markets
Franzoni, Francesco A. and Schmalz, Martin C., Fund Flows in Rational Markets (May 12, 2013). Available at SSRN “When investors are risk-averse, relative performance in downturns is more informative about managers’ ability to generate utility for investors than relative performance in upturns. Rational investors thus reallocate more wealth between funds in response to downturn-performance than… Continue Reading
NOAA and Partners Deliver New Climate and Health Data Tool to Public
“This week, in conjunction with the release of the Obama Administration Open Data Policy, the interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) launched a new online tool that promises to accelerate research relating to climate change and human healththe Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health or MATCH. MATCH is a publicly accessible, online tool… Continue Reading
A Description of the Immigrant Population – 2013 Update
“CBO has updated the information in its June 2011 report A Description of the Immigrant Population: An Update. CBO updated 15 of the 20 exhibits contained in that report and added one new exhibit. Those exhibits that could be updated in their entirety have been, and a few others have been updated partially. In some… Continue Reading
