CDC – Key findings “Pregnancy rates for women in the United States continued to decline in 2009, reaching the lowest level in 12 years: “The pregnancy rate for U.S. women in 2009 was 102.1 per 1,000 women aged 15–44, the lowest level in 12 years; only the 1997 rate of 101.6 has been lower in the last 30… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2013
Issue Brief Examines the Evidence on Medicare Patients’ Access to Physicians
“The ongoing congressional debate about the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, a payment formula that lawmakers have overridden repeatedly to avoid big payment cuts to doctors, may resurrect familiar questions about whether physicians are willing to take Medicare patients. A new issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation provides some answers. This review and new analysis of physician data… Continue Reading
Financial Accounts of the United States, 3rd Quarter 2013
Federal Reserve Statistical Release – Z.1 Financial Accounts of the United States. Flow of Funds, Balance Sheets, and Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts, Third Quarter 2013 “Household net worth – the difference between the values of households’ assets and liabilities – was $77.3 trillion at the end of the third quarter of this year, about $1.9 trillion more than at the end of the… Continue Reading
Fiscal Policy Effects in a Heterogeneous-Agent Overlapping-Generations Economy With an Aging Population
Fiscal Policy Effects in a Heterogeneous-Agent Overlapping-Generations Economy With an Aging Population: Working Paper 2013-07, by Shinichi Nishiyama “Among the models that CBO uses to analyze the economic effects of changes in federal fiscal policy is a life-cycle growth model with overlapping generations of heterogeneous households. In this paper, we extend a similar dynamic model… Continue Reading
Investigation Reveals More Than One Million Requests By Law Enforcement for Americans’ Mobile Phone Data
“As part of his ongoing investigation into wireless surveillance of Americans by law enforcement, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today released responses from eight major wireless carriers that reveals expanded use of wireless surveillance of Americans, including more than one million requests for the personal mobile phone data of Americans in 2012 by law enforcement. This… Continue Reading
FTC Launches Redesigned FTC.gov Website
“The Federal Trade Commission today launched a redesigned FTC.gov website that’s easier to use and reader friendly on tablets and smart phones. Users can now sort FTC cases, early termination notices for merger investigations, advocacy filings and other documents by date, type, and more. In addition to enhanced sort and filter functionality, the revised site provides… Continue Reading
The burden of air pollution on years of life lost in Beijing, China, 2004-08
The burden of air pollution on years of life lost in Beijing, China, 2004-08: retrospective regression analysis of daily deaths. BMJ 2013;347:f7139. Published 9 December 2013 “The effects of air pollution on human health have recently attracted increasing concern in China, in part due to the increasing number of days with very high levels of air pollution. In most… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Federal Courthouses, Rail Safety, Reverse Auctions, Immigration Detention, Medicaid
FEDERAL COURTHOUSES – Better Planning Needed Regarding Reuse of Old Courthouses, GAO-14-48, Nov 7, 2013 FISCAL YEAR 2013 AGREED-UPON PROCEDURES – Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund, GAO-14-162R, Dec 9, 2013 RAIL SAFETY – Improved Human Capital Planning Could Address Emerging Safety Oversight Challenges, GAO-14-85, Dec 9, 2013 REVERSE AUCTIONS – Guidance Is… Continue Reading
Tech Giants Call for Global Government Surveillance Reform
“The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information. While the undersigned companies understand that governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety and security, we strongly believe that current laws and practices need to… Continue Reading
Financial Institutions, the Market, and the Continuing Problem of Executive Compensation
Financial Institutions, the Market, and the Continuing Problem of Executive Compensation, J. Robert Brown Jr., University of Denver Sturm College of Law. November 13, 2013. Financial Institutions, the Market, and the Continuing Problem of Executive Compensation, Americans for Financial Reform and the Roosevelt Institute, Nov. 12, 2013. U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-06 “The financial crisis of 2008… Continue Reading
Loss of U.S. Wetlands Continues Upward Trend
“NOAA has authored a new report, Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Coastal Watersheds of the Conterminous United States 2004-2009, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. According to the report’s findings, the coastal watersheds of the continental United States lost wetlands at an average rate of 80,000 acres a year from 2004-2009. That’s approximately seven football fields, every… Continue Reading
BIS Quarterly Review, December 2013
BIS Quarterly Review for December 2013 – full text, 85 pages Sections include: Highlights of the BIS international statistics; articles on International banking and financial market developments; Global FX market; FX and derivatives; OTC interest rate derivatives market; Treatment of sovereign risk in the Basel capital framework. Continue Reading
