Chakrabarty, Bidisha and Moulton, Pamela C. and Wang, Xu (Frank), Attention Effects in a High-Frequency World (July 23, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2634621 “How does limited attention affect stock prices in today’s computer-driven financial markets? We study this issue by re-examining the effects of limited attention using a dataset that separately identifies trades… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Hackers continue to leak federal government employee data
NextGov.com: “The group of hacktivists, Anonymous, claimed in a tweet on Wednesday they hacked the Census Bureau and leaked employee details online. The hack was in protest of TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), which is an agreement being negotiated between the U.S. and E.U. critics say would increase corporate power and make it more… Continue Reading
EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council Reports
“Economic, fiscal and employment policies – Recommendations to the member states – The Council issued country-specific recommendations and opinions on the economic, fiscal and employment policies planned by the member states, as well as a specific recommendation on the economic policies of the euro area. Adoption of the texts, following their endorsement by the European… Continue Reading
Immigration Detention Risk Assessment
“Noferi, Mark L. and Koulish, Robert, The Immigration Detention Risk Assessment (July 1, 2015). 29 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 45 (2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2635247 “In early 2013, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) deployed nationwide a new automated risk assessment tool to help determine whether to detain or release noncitizens pending their… Continue Reading
Can Desalination Counter the Drought?
The New Yorker: “The waves of the Pacific seem to taunt the thirsty landscape of California. The state has eight hundred and forty miles of coastline adjoining the world’s largest ocean—an oversupply of brine at a time when drought has left fallow more than half a million acres of farmland, claimed some twenty thousand jobs,… Continue Reading
Feasibility Study to Remove Plastic from Ocean
Ocean Cleanup: “While Boyan Slat’s idea to rid the ocean of plastic gained worldwide attention and acclaim in 2013, it was still just that: an idea. In order to investigate whether the passive cleanup technology could indeed be an effective way to remove vast amounts of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, The Ocean… Continue Reading
Staff economic projections June 16-17, 2015 FOMC meeting inadvertently included in file posted to Board’s site
“Economic projections prepared by Federal Reserve Board staff as background for the June 16-17, 2015, meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) were inadvertently included in a computer file posted to the Board’s public website on June 29. Because the information has already been released, the Federal Reserve is today providing general public notification… Continue Reading
NIST – Securing Electronic Health Records on Mobile Devices
“Stolen personal information can have negative financial impacts, but stolen medical information cuts to the very core of personal privacy. Medical identity theft already costs billions of dollars each year, and altered medical information can put a person’s health at risk through misdiagnosis, delayed treatment or incorrect prescriptions. Yet, the use of mobile devices to… Continue Reading
Summary of Agency Chief FOIA Officer Reports for 2015
Summary of Agency Chief FOIA Officer Reports for 2015 and Assessment of Agency Progress in Implementing the President’s FOIA Memorandum and Attorney General Holder’s FOIA Guidelines With OIP Guidance for Further Improvement “The 2015 Chief FOIA Officer Reports address efforts in improving FOIA administrations in five key areas tied to Attorney General Holder’s 2009 FOIA… Continue Reading
American Work Force and Labor Day
Census: “The first observance of Labor Day was likely on Sept. 5, 1882, when some 10,000 workers assembled in New York City for a parade. That celebration inspired similar events across the country, and by 1894 more than half the states were observing a “workingmen’s holiday” on one day or another. Later that year, with… Continue Reading
GAO Report – IRS 2016 Budget Cuts Increase Risk
IRS Is Scaling Back Activities and Using Budget Flexibilities to Absorb Funding Cuts, GAO-15-624: Published: Jun 24, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 24, 2015: “Internal Revenue Service (IRS) total appropriations declined from a high of $12.1 billion in fiscal year 2010 to $11.3 billion in fiscal year 2014, a reduction of about 7 percent. GAO selected… Continue Reading
Video based search makes YouTube second largest search engine
Search Engine Land: “YouTube is arguably the second largest search engine on the Web. It is the third most visited site on the Web, according to Alexa and SimilarWeb. Recent information released by Google has shown that more and more users are using YouTube as a search engine. Searches related to “how to” on YouTube… Continue Reading
