Puaschunder, Julia M., The Beauty of Ivy: When Inequality Meets Equality (July 7, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2627882 “Thomas Piketty’s (2014) Capital in the 21st Century revolutionized economic thoughts on inequality. Started by the 2008/09 World Financial Crisis and cumulated in the subsequent Occupy movement, attention to rising inequality regarding economic wage, opportunity… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Open Access Law Reviews and Commentary MetaSearch
Via Lyonette Louis-Jacques, thanks to the work of Annette Demers – we all have access to this Open Access Law Reviews and Legal Commentary Meta Search which searches sites that include the following: BePress Law Commons Network BePress Law School Institutional Repositories Centre d’accès a l’information juridique (CAIJ) Cornell Law School Working Papers Series Directory… Continue Reading
Hacking of federal personnel data called “treasure trove of information”
Washington Post, Ellen Nakashima: “The massive hack last year of the Office of Personnel Management’s system containing security clearance information affected 21.5 million people, including current and former employees, contractors and their families and friends, officials said Thursday. That is in addition to a separate hack – also last year — of OPM’s personnel database… Continue Reading
Armed police in England, Wales only fired weapons twice during 14,864 operations in 2013-14
Police use of firearms statistics, England and Wales: financial year ending 31 March 2014: “This release contains statistics on police use of firearms across England and Wales in the year ending March 2014. It details the total number of: police firearms’ operations (operations in which firearms were authorised) police firearms’ operations involving Armed Response Vehicles… Continue Reading
Understanding the Long-Term Budget Outlook
CBO Director Keith Hall testifies on the long-term budget outlook before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, July 9, 2015: “The long-term outlook for the federal budget has changed little since last year, according to CBO’s projections. If current laws remained generally unchanged in the future, federal debt held by… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Afghanistan, Buy Indian Act, Debt Limit, Diplomatic Security, FEMA, International Food Assistance
Afghanistan: Embassy Construction Cost and Schedule Have Increased, and Further Facilities Planning Is Needed, GAO-15-755T: Published: Jul 9, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 9, 2015. Buy Indian Act: Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service Need Greater Insight into Implementation at Regional Offices, GAO-15-588: Published: Jul 9, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 9, 2015. Debt Limit:… Continue Reading
TRAC – Senior Judge Workload Expands
“The workload of federal judges who have retired but voluntarily continue to hear cases has grown by nearly every measure in the past two decades. These senior judges now resolve nearly twice as many cases as they did 20 years ago. The reason for this increase: while the annual number of cases being funneled into… Continue Reading
Systemically Important or “Too Big to Fail” Financial Institutions
CRS – Systemically Important or “Too Big to Fail” Financial Institutions. Marc Labonte, Specialist in Macroeconomic Policy. June 30, 2015. “Although “too big to fail” (TBTF) has been a longstanding policy issue, it was highlighted by the near-collapse of several large financial firms in 2008. Financial firms are said to be TBTF when policy makers… Continue Reading
Making Sense of Mobile Technology – The Integration of Work and Private Life
“Mobile technologies have facilitated a radical shift in work and private life. In this article, we seek to better understand how individual mobile technology users have made sense of these changes and adapted to them. We have used narrative enquiry and sensemaking to collect and analyze the data. The findings show that mobile technology use… Continue Reading
Tests Find Asbestos in Kids’ Crayons, Crime Scene Kits
Asbestos Nation – Bill Walker and Sonya Lunder: “Samples of four brands of children’s crayons and two kids’ crime scene fingerprint kits contained deadly asbestos fibers, according to tests commissioned by EWG Action Fund. The toys, purchased at national retail chains or through online retailers, were tested by two government-certified laboratories, using state-of-the-art equipment. The… Continue Reading
Corporate governance principles for banks
Bank for International Settlements – “Effective corporate governance is critical to the proper functioning of the banking sector and the economy as a whole. While there is no single approach to good corporate governance, the Basel Committee’s revised principles provide a framework within which banks and supervisors should operate to achieve robust and transparent risk management… Continue Reading
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee June 16-17 2015
“The information reviewed for the June 16-17 meeting suggested that real gross domestic product (GDP) was increasing moderately in the second quarter after edging down in the first quarter. Labor market conditions improved somewhat further in recent months. Consumer price inflation continued to run below the FOMC’s longer-run objective of 2 percent and was restrained… Continue Reading
