Search or browse 256,041 legal entities in 178 countries, registered by 13 LOUs “ABOUT THE LEI SYSTEM – The Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) is designed to address the problems of corporate identity, particularly in the financial markets. Read on“ Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2014
The Open Database Of The Corporate World Is Growing and has New API
Follow up to The Open Database Of The Corporate World (Beta), news that “version 0.3 of the OpenCorporates API is now live, with many, many new features, improvements (and even a few bug fixes). Along the way, we’ve also given it a visual refresh…Get access to over 60 million companies. Continue Reading
Annual FISA Report Shows Decrease in Surveillance Orders, Questions About Scope Remain
EPIC: “The Department of Justice has published the 2013 FISA Report. The brief report provides summary information about the government’s use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In 2012 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court granted 1,789 FISA orders and 212 “Section 215” orders. In 2013, there were 1,588 requests to conduct FISA surveillance, with 34 modifications.… Continue Reading
UK Gov Project – Print Still Matters
“Use this site to discover which libraries in the United Kingdom have PRINT collections of publications issued by the UK Parliament, UK Government, and the Devolved Assemblies, Parliaments, and Administrations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The information upon which this site is built was collected through the Print Still Matters Project in 2012/2013. This Project was initiated… Continue Reading
The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy
The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence. Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell. Journal of Economic Literature 2014, 52(1), 1–40 “This paper undertakes an assessment of a rapidly growing body of economic research on financial literacy. We start with an overview of theoretical research, which casts financial knowledge as a form of investment in… Continue Reading
State Funding for Education Has Not Recovered Since the Recession
States Are Still Funding Higher Education Below Pre-Recession Levels. Michael Mitchell, Vincent Palacios, and Michael Leachman – May 1, 2014 “Most states have begun in the past year to restore some of the cuts they made to higher education funding after the recession hit. Eight states, though, are still cutting, and in almost all states — including those that are… Continue Reading
Interactive visualization allows you to explore actual patterns of lawmaking in Congress
Legislative Explorer or LEG/EX © University of Washington Center for American Politics and Public Policy. A data-driven discovery tool for learning about how bills become law. “Researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for American Politics and Public Policy are applying data-driven discovery methods popular in the natural sciences to visualize and learn about lawmaking. Legislative Explorer, or LegEx,… Continue Reading
The impact of the falling yen on U.S. import prices
The impact of the falling yen on U.S. import prices, by David Mead and Sharon Royales “In the fall of 2012, Japan set forth economic policies aimed at turning around the country’s historic deflationary slide that began in the 1990s. These policies led the Japanese yen to fall dramatically in value relative to the U.S.… Continue Reading
FOCUS on Top Incomes and Taxation in OECD Countries: Was the crisis a game changer?
OECD work on Income Distribution and Poverty, May 2014 “The share of the richest 1% in total pre-tax income have increased in most OECD countries in the past three decades, particularly in some English-speaking countries but also in some Nordic (from low levels) and Southern European countries. Today, they range between 7% in Denmark and… Continue Reading
EPA’s Coordinated Approach on Asthma
“EPA promotes scientific understanding of environmental asthma triggers and ways to manage asthma in community settings through research, education and outreach. With federal, state and local partners, we are building the nation’s capacity to control asthma and manage exposure to indoor and outdoor pollutants linked to asthma. Our purpose is to build knowledge and awareness… Continue Reading
Country Reports on Terrorism 2013
United States Department of State Publication, Bureau of Counterterrorism, April 2014: “Country Reports on Terrorism 2013 is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656f (the “Act”), which requires the Department of State to provide to Congress a full and complete annual report on terrorism for those countries and groups meeting the… Continue Reading
Understanding ICANN’s Complexity in a Growing and Changing Internet
Testart, Cecilia, Understanding ICANN’s Complexity in a Growing and Changing Internet (April 15, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2431571 “Historically, the primary governance of the Internet has been in the hands of the Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit corporation appointed by the US government to develop policy for and manage the critical… Continue Reading
