“These reports provide selected economic and demographic characteristics of U.S. respondent firms and their owners. Data aggregates are presented by gender, ethnicity, race and veteran status of majority owners at the national level by 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), and employment size and receipts size of firm. Characteristics of Businesses and Business Owners statistics for both employer and nonemployer firms include, but are not limited to, types of workers, year the business was originally established, if the company owned a website, age of owner, owner’s highest level of education, and whether the owner was born in the United States.”
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Daily Archives: February 23, 2016
Central Bank Governance and the Role of Nonfinancial Risk Management
IMF – Ashraf Khan, February 23, 2016: “This paper argues that nonfinancial risk management is an essential element of good governance of central banks. It provides a funnelled analysis, on the basis of selected literature, by (i) presenting an outline of central bank governance in general; (ii) zooming in on internal governance and organization issues… Continue Reading
State of the States Report 2015
“In 2014, more than one in seven Americans—46.7 million people—lived below the official federal poverty level of less than $24,000 per year for a family of four. While the U.S. economy has gradually improved in the aftermath of the recession, far too many families continue to struggle to make ends meet, much less get ahead. Each year,… Continue Reading
Legislative Options for Financing Water Infrastructure
Via FAS – CRS Report – Legislative Options for Financing Water Infrastructure – Claudia Copeland Specialist, in Resources and Environmental Policy; Steven Maguire, Section Research Manager; William J. Mallett, Specialist in Transportation Policy. February 18, 2016. “This report addresses several options considered by Congress to address the financing needs of local communities for wastewater and drinking… Continue Reading
Encryption and Evolving Technology: Implications for U.S. Law Enforcement Investigations
Via FAS – CRS Report – Encryption and Evolving Technology: Implications for U.S. Law Enforcement Investigations, Kristin Finklea Specialist in Domestic Security February 18, 2016. “Because modern-day criminals are constantly developing new tools and techniques to facilitate their illicit activities, law enforcement is challenged with leveraging its tools and authorities to keep pace. For instance,… Continue Reading
Mutual Fund Holdings of Credit Default Swaps: Liquidity Management and Risk Taking
Zhu, Zhongyan and Jiang, Wei, Mutual Fund Holdings of Credit Default Swaps: Liquidity Management and Risk Taking. Melbourne Business School, 2016 Financial Institutions, Regulation & Corporate Governance (FIRCG) Conference. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2736633 “Using a comprehensive dataset of mutual funds’ quarterly holdings of credit default swap (CDS) contracts during 2007–2011, we analyze the… Continue Reading
CBO, the Budget Process, and the Outlook
Presentation by Keith Hall, CBO Director, at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, February 23, 2016: “Since 1975, CBO has produced nonpartisan analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process. Each year, the agency’s economists and budget analysts produce dozens of reports and hundreds of cost estimates… Continue Reading
Pew – More Support for DOJ Than for Apple in Dispute Over Unlocking iPhone
Follow up to recent related postings – NPR reports on DOJ motion to compel Apple to unlock iPhone and Answers to your questions about Apple and security – via Pew – More Support for Justice Department Than for Apple in Dispute Over Unlocking iPhone: “As the standoff between the Department of Justice and Apple Inc.… Continue Reading
Free tool to visualize Supreme Court cases
Via Robert Ambrogi, LawSites – SCOTUS Visualization Project Shows Lines of Cases — Literally “As lawyers, we’re all accustomed to talking about the lines of cases that create bodies of precedent for legal principles. A new tool launched this week lets you visualize lines of Supreme Court cases so that you can better analyze and… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Department of Energy, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Unaccompanied Children
Department of Energy: Observations on Efforts by NNSA and the Office of Environmental Management to Manage and Oversee the Nuclear Security Enterprise, GAO-16-422T: Published: Feb 23, 2016. Publicly Released: Feb 23, 2016. Nuclear Nonproliferation: Preliminary Observations on IAEA’s Role in Verifying the Iran Agreement, GAO-16-417: Published: Feb 12, 2016. Publicly Released: Feb 23, 2016. Unaccompanied… Continue Reading
