“More than a quarter million jobs were added to the U.S. economy in July, and the official unemployment rate remained unchanged at just under 5%, according to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, some of these jobs were undesired part-time positions, and the official unemployment rate often gives an incomplete… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2016
Working Paper – Low long-term interest rates as a global phenomenon
Low long-term interest rates as a global phenomenon by Peter Hördahl, Jhuvesh Sobrun and Philip Turner. Working Papers No 574. August 2016. “International linkages between interest rates in different currencies are strong, and ultra-low rates have become a global phenomenon. This paper compares how interest rates in advanced economies and in emerging economies are conditioned… Continue Reading
Paper – Securing the Connected Car
Commonalities in Vehicle Vulnerabilities, Corey Thuen, Senior Security Consultant, IOActive: “With the Connected Car becoming commonplace in the market, vehicle cybersecurity grows more important by the year. At the forefront of this growing area of security research, IOActive has amassed real-world vulnerability data illustrating the general issues and potential solutions to the cybersecurity issues facing… Continue Reading
Inspection of Federal Computer Security at US Department of the Interior
Inspection of Federal Computer Security at the U.S. Department of the Interior, August 9, 2016: “In accordance with Section 406 of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, we inspected DOI’s policies, procedures, and practices for securing its computer networks and systems for all covered systems related to logical access control policies and practices, use of multifactor… Continue Reading
Social and Economic Rights and Gender in Constitutions
Goldblatt, Beth, Social and Economic Rights and Gender in Constitutions (August 8, 2016). Draft Chapter in ‘Gender and Constitutions Handbook’ edited by Helen Irving, Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017 Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2819905 “Social and economic rights that offer to address poverty have special significance for women who, as a group,… Continue Reading
Sources and the Enforcement of International Law: What Norms International Law-Enforcement Bodies Actually Invoke?
Shany, Yuval, Sources and the Enforcement of International Law: What Norms International Law-Enforcement Bodies Actually Invoke? (August 4, 2016). Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law (Oxford: OUP; Samantha Besson and Jean D’Aspremont eds.) (Forthcoming). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2819122 “The paper explores the sources of law used by international law-enforcing bodies, thus… Continue Reading
The Political Economy of International Law A European Perspective
Fabbricotti, Alberta and Benvenisti, Eyal and Boisson de Chazournes, Laurence and Delcourt, Barbara and Kica, Evisa and Kohut, Ulyana and Lehmann, Tobias A. and Lewis, Meredith Kolsky and Panizzon, Marion and Merkouris, Panos and Nollkaemper, Andre and Petersen, Niels and Stephan, Paul B. and Trachtman, Joel P. and van Aaken, Anne and Vitiello, Daniela and… Continue Reading
New or Expanded Content and Features in FRASER
Via Katrina Stierholz -Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: * “Bulletins of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/series/1486) are available from Bulletin 1 (November 1895) to Bulletin 2299 (March 1988 * The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1339), a weekly business newspaper, is available for 1871-1935 (with several gaps in coverage). * The Financial… Continue Reading
Over 1,000 pages of declassified docs on Argentina posted online
Argentina Declassification Project, August 8, 2016. “During his landmark visit to Argentina in March, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. government would declassify records relating to human rights abuses under Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship. At a ceremony commemorating the victims of these human rights abuses, held on the 40th anniversary of the 1976 coup d’état,… Continue Reading
Baltimore Sun – DOJ report finds Baltimore police routinely violated civil rights
Del Quentin Wilber and Kevin Rector, August 9, 2016: “Baltimore police routinely violated the constitutional rights of residents by conducting unlawful stops and using excessive force, according to the findings of a long-anticipated Justice Department probe to be released Wednesday. The practices overwhelmingly affected the city’s black residents in low-income neighborhoods, according to the 163-page… Continue Reading
The Copyright Holdout Problem and New Internet-Based Services
Cross, John T. and Yu, Peter K., The Copyright Holdout Problem and New Internet-Based Services (July 29, 2016). EXPLORING SENSIBLE MECHANISMS OF PAYING FOR COPYRIGHT, Liu Kung-Chung and Reto M. Hilty, eds., Springer, 2016. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2815825 “This chapter examines the holdout problem involving a copyright holder’s refusal to license digital content… Continue Reading
The world produces enough food to feed everyone. So why do people go hungry?
“Poverty and hunger are intimately connected, which is why the SDGs target elimination of both. For someone living at the World Bank’s poverty line of $1.90 per day, food would account for some 50-70% of income. The Bank estimates that almost four-fifths of the world’s poor live in rural areas, though those areas account for… Continue Reading
