“The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today announced significant new improvements to the deposit insurance education materials available on the FDIC’s website, www.fdic.gov. The enhancements are designed to improve the accessibility and presentation of deposit insurance information for the general public through organizational changes as well as through the expanded use of explanatory videos and interactive… Continue Reading
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Monthly Budget Review for May 2014
“The federal government ran a budget deficit of $439 billion for the first eight months of fiscal year 2014, CBO estimates—$188 billion less than the shortfall recorded over the same span last year and the smallest deficit for those months since fiscal year 2008. Compared with the amounts at this point last year, revenues were… Continue Reading
‘When Worlds Collide’: Navigating the Minefield of Social Media
Knowledge@ Wharton: “Social media has made it possible to share the details of our lives — both intimate and minute — quickly and easily. But with that convenience comes a host of dangers as people’s personal and professional lives, and public and private personas, converge. In “When Worlds Collide in Cyberspace: How Boundary Work in Online… Continue Reading
It’s 2014, and the Picture Has Changed for Working Dads. Here’s How
“Our work force — and families — look different than ever before. Like moms, many dads don’t have access to paid leave or flexible workplaces. And it’s harder than ever for them to balance work and family. Take a look at what that looks like, and then share this if you learned something new.” Continue Reading
Corporate Governance and Prudential Regulation
Speech by Governor Daniel K. Tarullo – Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemAt the Association of American Law Schools 2014 Midyear Meeting, Washington, D.C. June 9, 2014. “In my remarks this afternoon I will try to further the collaboration between corporate and financial law scholarship by suggesting how the nature of finance and financial regulation affects corporate… Continue Reading
2014 Trustwave Global Security Report
“The 2014 Trustwave Global Security Report is back for another year,…and we again lean on hard evidence gathered from hundreds of data breach investigations conducted last year – 691 to be exact, spread across industries and the world – as well as threat intelligence gathered from our products and security operations centers. Using that evidence,… Continue Reading
Pew – What kind of library user are you?
“Are you a “Library Lover”? An “Information Omnivore”? Or are you totally “Off the Grid”? Take our library engagement quiz to learn how your library habits and attitudes stack up against the general population. This quiz is a condensed version of the questions asked in our nationally representative survey of 6,224 Americans ages 16 and older… Continue Reading
Revolving Door and Worker Flows in Banking Regulation
Federal Reserve Bank of New York – David Lucca, Amit Seru, and Francesco Trebbi “Drawing on a large sample of publicly available curricula vitae, this paper traces the career transitions of federal and state U.S. banking regulators and provides basic facts on worker flows between the regulatory and private sectors resulting from the revolving door. We find strong countercyclical… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Defense HQ, DOE, STEM
DEFENSE HEADQUARTERS: Guidance Needed to Transition U.S. Central Command’s Costs to the Base Budget, GAO-14-440: Published: Jun 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 9, 2014. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Enhanced Transparency Could Clarify Costs, Market Impact, Risk, and Legal Authority to Conduct Future Uranium Transactions, GAO-14-291: Published: May 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 9, 2014. MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA: Improvements Made, but VA Can Do… Continue Reading
Growing Number of Dads Home with the Kids – Pew
Biggest increase among those caring for family: “The number of fathers who do not work outside the home has risen markedly in recent years, up to 2 million in 2012. High unemployment rates around the time of the Great Recession contributed to the recent increases, but the biggest contributor to long-term growth in these “stay-at-home fathers” is the rising… Continue Reading
Compendium of UK Statistics
“This Compendium of UK Statistics brings together comparable official statistics for the four nations of the UK. It has been produced to facilitate comparisons and is intended to help support key decisions such as the forthcoming Scottish referendum on independence which is due to take place on 18 September 2014. It follows on from the… Continue Reading
Interactions of cultures and top people of Wikipedia from ranking of 24 language editions
Young-Ho Eom, Pablo Aragón, David Laniado, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Sebastiano Vigna, Dima L. Shepelyansky (Submitted on 28 May 2014) “Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge, that can be leveraged to investigate interwinements between cultures. With this aim we apply two methods, Markov chains and Google matrix, for the analysis of the hyperlink networks of 24 Wikipedia language editions,… Continue Reading
