“In this special report, students from the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies examine current trends and recent developments shaping today’s global marketplace. The articles cover a wide variety of topics ranging from technology, innovation and brand building to infrastructure, entrepreneurship and social impact. A section on consumer markets looks at the popularity… Continue Reading
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NPR – Russian Warheads Fuel U.S. Power Plants
NPR – GEOFF BRUMFIEL: “Here’s a remarkable fact: For the past two decades, 10 percent of all the electricity consumed in the United States has come from Russian nuclear warheads. It was all part of a deal struck at the end of the Cold War. That deal wraps up today, when the final shipment of fuel arrives… Continue Reading
Lifespan extension by cranberry supplementation partially requires SOD2 and is life stage independent
Lifespan extension by cranberry supplementation partially requires SOD2 and is life stage independent – Yaning Sun, Jason Yolitz, Thomas Alberico, Xiaoping Sun, Sige Zou. Experimental Gerontology – Volume 50, February 2014, Pages 57–63 “Many nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals have been shown to promote healthspan and lifespan. However, the mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of prolongevity interventions and the time points at which interventions should be… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board issues final rule on treatment of uninsured U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks
“The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday approved a final rule clarifying the treatment of uninsured U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks under section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as the swaps push out provision. The final rule adopts without change the interim final rule issued by… Continue Reading
FDIC – Supervisory Insights, December 2013
FDIC – Supervisory Insights, December 2013. Vol. 10, Issue 2 Winter 2013. “Supervisory Insights is published by the FDIC’s Division of Risk Management Supervision to promote sound principles and practices for bank supervision. Articles in the Winter 2013 issue include: Industry Trends Highlight Importance of Effective Interest-Rate Risk Management – During the recent sustained low interest rate environment, the banking… Continue Reading
Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island
New York Public Library – Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was) by Philip Sutton, Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, July 2, 2013. “Between 1892 and 1954, over twelve million people entered the United States through the immigration inspection station at… Continue Reading
Leverage, Systemic Risk and Financial System Health
Leverage, Systemic Risk and Financial System Health: How Do We Develop a Healthy Financial System? by Angela Turcott. Washington University in Saint Louis – John M. Olin Business School, December 24, 2013. “This paper briefly discusses the causes of the 2007-09 financial crisis and the extent to which the systemic risk that buffeted this crisis was linked to… Continue Reading
FBI Releases Annual Crime Statistics from National Incident-Based Reporting System
News release: “..the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released its second compilation of annual data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The report, NIBRS 2012, presents core tables about incident and offense data submitted by a third of the nation’s law enforcement agencies that participate in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, as well… Continue Reading
Digital Attack Map displays global DDoS activity on any given day
“The Digital Attack Map is a live data visualization of DDoS attacks around the globe, built through a collaboration between Google Ideas and Arbor Networks. The tool surfaces anonymous attack traffic data to let users explore historic trends and find reports of outages happening on a given day.” Continue Reading
BIS – Asia’s decoupling: fact, forecast or fiction?
Asia’s decoupling: fact, forecast or fiction? by Lillie Lam and James Yetman, Working Papers No 438, December 23, 2013. “Standard measures of real economic co-movement between Asia-Pacific economies and those elsewhere had been observed to follow a downward trend, leading some commentators to suggest that the region was decoupling. However, this process reversed in response to the International Financial Crisis,… Continue Reading
OECD – Cycling, Health and Safety
“Many jurisdictions around the world are trying to retain or increase the share of cycling in urban traffic in order to benefit from the many health and transport efficiency benefits. Safety is a key concern and should be accounted for in these policies. This report of the International Transport Forum’s Cycling Safety Working Group – Cycling, Health… Continue Reading
New Report: Police Intelligence Gathering Lacks Standards, Threatens National Security and Civil Liberties
“Gaps in local-federal intelligence sharing systems jeopardize national security investigations and threaten Americans’ civil liberties, according to a new Brennan Center report. National Security and Local Police, the most comprehensive survey of counterterrorism policing since 9/11, finds that police are operating without adequate standards and oversight mechanisms, routinely amassing mountains of data – including personal information… Continue Reading
