Melecky, Martin and Podpiera, Anca Maria, Placing Bank Supervision in the Central Bank: Implications for Financial Stability Based on Evidence from the Global Crisis (June 22, 2015). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7320. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2621874 “Although keeping bank supervision independent from macroprudential supervision may ensure more checks and balances, placing… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
The Role of Law Schools in Helping to Create a Just Society
Rapping, Jonathan, Grooming Tomorrow’s Change Agents: The Role of Law Schools in Helping to Create a Just Society (June 22, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2621702 “Numerous authorities have lamented the fact that America’s criminal justice system is broken. To address this crisis, experts have proposed a range of policy proscriptions. But these proposals overlook… Continue Reading
Google Launches News Lab
Official Google Blog: “…we’ve created the News Lab, a new effort at Google to empower innovation at the intersection of technology and media. Our mission is to collaborate with journalists and entrepreneurs to help build the future of media. And we’re tackling this in three ways: though ensuring our tools are made available to journalists around… Continue Reading
OPM IG Report – Infrastructure and IT Controls Improvement
“The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is issuing this Flash Audit Alert to bring to your immediate attention serious concerns we have regarding the Office of the Chief Information Officer’ s (OCIO) infrastructure improvement project (Project). This Project includes a full overhaul ofthe agency’s technical infrastructure by implementing additional information technology… Continue Reading
Survey – financial insecurity rises in America
Bankrate.com: “Wages may be on the rise, but a record-high percentage of Americans still aren’t socking away those gains for life’s unexpected crises. When asked about their emergency savings, 29 percent of Americans reported they had none, according to a survey that accompanied Bankrate’s Financial Security Index for June. That’s the highest level in five years… Continue Reading
Quarterly Summary of State Local Government Tax Revenue
“This release provides quarterly estimates of state and local government tax revenue at a national level, as well as detailed tax revenue data for individual states. This report produces three tables: Tables 1 and 2 include income and sales data and Table 3 provides tax collections by state.” Continue Reading
Study – Major ISPs degrading internet speed to US users
The Guardian: “Major internet providers, including AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon, are slowing data from popular websites to thousands of US businesses and residential customers in dozens of cities across the country, according to a study released on [June 22, 2015]. The study, conducted by internet activists BattlefortheNet, looked at the results from 300,000 internet users and found… Continue Reading
Health Care Coverage and Access for Men, 2013-2015
Kaiser Foundation: “This Visualizing Health Policy infographic provides a snapshot of men’s health care and insurance coverage issues, including health status, access to care and use of services. It compares the uninsured rates of men and women, their cost barriers to care, their connection to clinicians, and their use of prescription drugs, screening, and counseling services. Fewer… Continue Reading
Report – climate change damage cost at national parks
Adapting To Climate Change in Coastal Parks: Estimating the Exposure of Park Assets to 1 m of Sea-Level Rise Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NRSS/GRD/NRR—2015/916: “In advance of the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released a report revealing that national park infrastructure and historic and cultural resources totalling more than… Continue Reading
SEC Re-Proposes Rules on Security-Based Swaps
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation: SEC Re-Proposes Rules on Arranging, Negotiating or Executing Security-Based Swaps, Annette L. Nazareth, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, June 21, 2015 “On May 13, 2015, the SEC published proposed amendments and re-proposed rules on the application of certain Title VII requirements to cross-border security-based swap activities… Continue Reading
Curator’s Pocket History of the CIA
“History can be studied in more than one way. You can learn about facts and ideas from books. You can search for the documents that the books are based on. You can take the material approach: go to the places where history was made, perhaps join a group of re-enactors, and absorb the atmosphere. Or… Continue Reading
25 Metropolitan Area Fact Sheets from the American Housing Survey
“The fact sheets released by Census provide information on 25 selected metropolitan areas’ housing costs, mortgages and a variety of other physical and financial characteristics. A national fact sheet is also available. The statistics come from the American Housing Survey, which is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the… Continue Reading
