New York Fed – Liberty Street Economics: “One goal of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 was to end “too big to fail.” Toward that goal, the Act required systemically important financial institutions to submit detailed plans for an orderly resolution (“living wills”) and authorized the FDIC to create an alternative resolution procedure. In response, the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Fighting fake news: Caught between a rock and a hard place
European Council on Foreign Relations: “Government regulation on fake news is unlikely to prevent malicious actors from meddling in our elections or polarising our societies. With many worried about a Russian information offensive in the West, European states are in the process of developing defence mechanisms. Unfortunately, several seem to be reacting with a legalistic approach… Continue Reading
Estimates of present and future flood risk in the conterminous United States
Oliver E J Wing et al 2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 03402. Estimates of present and future flood risk in the conterminous United States. Open Access. “Past attempts to estimate rainfall-driven flood risk across the US either have incomplete coverage, coarse resolution or use overly simplified models of the flooding process. In this paper, we… Continue Reading
Safe Climate Caucus Members Urge Trump To Halt “Systematic Effort” To Reduce Public Access To Climate Change Resources
“[February 28, 2018] the Congressional Safe Climate Caucus sent a letter condemning the White House’s systematic effort to reduce and suppress public access to climate change resources through federal channels. The members highlighted many examples and expressed their concerns that these efforts violate the intent of the Federal Records Act. The letter comes after a… Continue Reading
Facebook Doesn’t Know How Many People Followed Russians on Instagram
Wired: “For more than a year, Jonathan Albright has served as something of a one-man General Accounting Office for the tech industry. The researcher at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism has dug into the details on how political Twitter trolls manipulate the media, and unearthed an intricate web of conspiracy theory videos on… Continue Reading
Weak states: Causes and consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Weak states: Causes and consequences of the Sicilian Mafia. Daron Acemoğlu, Giuseppe De Feo, Giacomo De Luca 02 March 2018 “The Mafia is often cited as one of the main reasons why Sicily has lagged behind the rest of Italy in economic and social development. This column describes how in an environment with weak state… Continue Reading
Librarian-turned-journalist rises; she ‘helped us be this giant scoop factory’
Once again Poynter is highlighting the critical, outstanding and timely work of librarians who have seamlessly transitioned to full time news researchers/journalists. This is not actually a new phenomenon (from the Greek to shine – and yes they do) – rather, there is after too many years wait, an epiphany of sorts recognizing the work… Continue Reading
Classified Presidential Library Records to be Moved to DC
Steve Aftergood – Secrecy News From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, Volume 2018, Issue No. 15, March 5, 2018 “The National Archives said last week that it will gather tens of millions of pages of classified historical records from Presidential Libraries around the country and will bring them to Washington, DC for declassification review.… Continue Reading
Does Import Protection Save Jobs? The Estimated Impacts of Proposed Tariffs on Imports of U.S. Steel and Aluminum (2018)
“Does Import Protection Save Jobs? The Estimated Impacts of Proposed Tariffs on Imports of U.S. Steel and Aluminum (2018) – This policy brief examines the potential net impacts on U.S. jobs across all industries of proposed steel and aluminum tariffs applied to targeted steel and aluminum imports from all countries. We find that the tariffs… Continue Reading
New EU Portal – Making Public Procurement Contracts More Transparent
Opentender – “This platform allows you to search and analyse tender data from 33 jurisdictions (28 EU member states, Norway, the EU Institutions, Iceland, Switzerland, Georgia). You can view the data on individual national portals by selecting a country below or explore all available data…” Continue Reading
H.R. 4631, Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act
CBO: “H.R. 4631 would require the Government Publishing Office (GPO) to establish and maintain a website that would allow the public to obtain electronic copies of all Congressionally mandated reports. Under H.R. 4631, all executive, legislative, and judicial branch agencies would be required to provide GPO with reports required by law each year. The Library… Continue Reading
Crapo, Hensarling File Amicus Brief in Support of CFPB Acting Director Mulvaney
Follow-up to recent posting – CRS – D.C. Circuit Upholds as Constitutional the Structure of the CFPB – news from Congress – On March 2, 2018, “38 Senators and 75 Representatives, led by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), filed an amicus brief in support… Continue Reading
