“Between 2009 and 2012, the federal government recorded the largest budget deficits relative to the size of the economy since 1946, causing federal debt to soar. Federal debt held by the public is now about 73 percent of the economy’s annual output, or gross domestic product (GDP). That percentage is higher than at any point… Continue Reading
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Declassified FISA Court Opinion Released – Addresses Legality of Phone Metadata Collection
Ellen Nakashima – Washington Post: “A federal surveillance court on Tuesday released a declassified opinion upholding the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s sweeping collection of billions of Americans’ phone records for counterterrorism purposes. The gathering of “all call detail records” from phone companies is justified as long as the government can show that it… Continue Reading
Only One-Quarter of Employers Sustaining Gains From Change Management Initiatives
Focus on manager’s role could spark improvement in companies’ ability to manage change “While employers believe a majority of their change management programs succeed initially, a new survey by global professional services company Towers Watson reveals that only one-quarter of organizations are able to keep the momentum going over the long term. The survey blames… Continue Reading
Bank for International Settlements – 5 Working Papers on Interventions
BIS Working Papers: Order Flow and the Real: Indirect Evidence of the Effectiveness of Sterilized Interventions Interventions and inflation expectations in an inflation targeting economy The impact of pre-announced day-to-day interventions on the Colombian exchange rate On central bank interventions in the Mexican peso/dollar foreign exchange market Asymmetric effects of FOREX intervention using intraday data:… Continue Reading
BIS Quarterly Review September 2013 – International banking and financial market developments
September 2013 Quarterly Review: Markets precipitate tightening, 15 September 2013 “Higher yields in advanced economies generated serious tremors in emerging markets. Cross-border claims of BIS reporting banks were broadly stable in the first quarter of 2013. Banks redirected lending from the advanced economies to emerging markets, especially to China, Brazil and Russia. Japanese banks returned… Continue Reading
Census Reports – U.S. Residents Who Speak Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese at Home
More Than 1 Million U.S. Residents Speak Vietnamese at Home, Census Bureau Reports More Than 1 Million U.S. Residents Speak Korean at Home, Census Bureau Reports Nearly 3 Million U.S. Residents Speak Chinese at Home, Census Bureau Reports Continue Reading
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2012
“This report presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2013 and earlier Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements (CPS ASEC) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Summary of findings: Real median household income in 2012 was not statistically different from the 2011… Continue Reading
TRAC: Few ICE Detainers Target Serious Criminals
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “Very timely case-by-case data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) show that no more than 14 percent of the “detainers” issued by the government in FY 2012 and the first four months of FY 2013 met the agency’s stated goal of targeting individuals who pose a serious threat to public safety… Continue Reading
White House Report – The Financial Crisis: Five Years Later
Executive Office of the President, September 2013 “Five years ago this week, a financial crisis unlike any in generations rocked Wall Street, turning a recession that was already hammering Main Street into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In the months before President Obama took office, the economy was shrinking at a rate… Continue Reading
The Environmental Price Tag on a Ton of Mountaintop Removal Coal
Brian D. Lutz, Emily S. Bernhardt, William H. Schlesinger (2013). The Environmental Price Tag on a Ton of Mountaintop Removal Coal PLOS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073203 “While several thousand square kilometers of land area have been subject to surface mining in the Central Appalachians, no reliable estimate exists for how much coal is produced per unit… Continue Reading
United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic
United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic Report on the Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Ghouta Area of Damascus on 21 August 2013 Note by the Secretary-General “1.In transmitting simultaneously to the Security Council and the General Assembly the report on the incident… Continue Reading
Presentation – “Why Google?”
“Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway presented Why Google?: “…[Google] saved time, it saved gas, I got what I needed, and it wasn’t a big deal.” at the OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill on 7 June 2013. During this presentation, she discussed results of multiple user behavior studies and recommendations for promoting user engagement with library services,… Continue Reading
