The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report Of The National Commission On The Causes Of The Financial And Economic Crisis In The United States: “The year 2013 marks the 5th anniversary of the start of the financial crisis. In the wake of the most significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, the President signed into… Continue Reading
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Pew – Cell Internet Use 2013
Cell Internet Use 2013 by Maeve Duggan, Aaron Smith – Sep 16, 2013 “63% of adult cell owners now use their phones to go online, a figure that has doubled since we first started tracking internet usage on cell phones in 2009. In addition, 34% of these cell internet users say that they mostly go… Continue Reading
LA Times – 5 years after financial crash, many losers – and some big winners
Corporate America, banks, the super rich and the index investing concept have gained. Savers, low-skilled workers, many homeowners, and stock exchanges have suffered. “WINNER: The banks. In the second quarter of this year U.S. banks earned a total of $42.2 billion — the biggest industry profit in history, and double the earnings of the same… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Health Care Workforce, Positive Train Control
HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE – Federally Funded Training Programs in Fiscal Year 2012, GAO-13-709R, Aug 15, 2013 POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL – Additional Authorities Could Benefit Implementation, GAO-13-720, Aug 16, 2013 Continue Reading
Untreatable: Report by CDC details today’s drug-resistant health threats
“Every year, more than two million people in the United States get infections that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a result, according to a new report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013, presents the first snapshot of… Continue Reading
Job Reallocation over Time: Decomposing the Decline
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: “One of the primary ways an economy expands is by quickly reallocating resources to the places where they are most productive. If new and productive firms are able to quickly grow and unproductive firms can quickly shrink, then the economy as a whole will experience faster growth and the many… Continue Reading
More Snowden documents – NSA monitors international payments
“The National Security Agency (NSA) widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions, according to documents seen by SPIEGEL. The information from the American foreign intelligence agency, acquired by former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, show that the spying is conducted by a branch called “Follow the Money” (FTM). The collected information then… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – The DPLA and the risks of gentrifying America’s public libraries
Via LLRX – The DPLA and the risks of gentrifying America’s public libraries David Rothman’s commentary proposes that the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) should turn itself into the Digital Academic Library of America or something similar while encouraging public libraries to establish their own system, ideally through COSLA, a group of state library… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Mandatory Facebook login for users trying to gain access to a third-party service
Mandatory Facebook login for users trying to gain access to a third-party service Professor Annemarie Bridy challenges the increasingly common use of mandatory Facebook login for Internet users trying to gain access to a third-party service – including posting comments to news stories, as well as viewing white papers, studies, reports and other documents. Continue Reading
Framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons
Secretary of State Kerry – Press Releases: September 2013 » Framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons September 14, 2013 “Taking into account the decision of the Syrian Arab Republic to accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention and the commitment of the Syrian authorities to provisionally apply the Convention prior to its entry into force,… Continue Reading
The 2013 OECD Privacy Guidelines
“Over many decades the OECD has played an important role in promoting respect for privacy as a fundamental value and a condition for the free flow of personal data across borders. The cornerstone of OECD work on privacy is its newly revised Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (2013). Another… Continue Reading
CRS – China’s Economic Rise
China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the United States. Wayne M. Morrison, Specialist in Asian Trade and Finance, September 5, 2013 “Prior to the initiation of economic reforms and trade liberalization 34 years ago, China maintained policies that kept the economy very poor, stagnant, centrally controlled, vastly inefficient, and relatively isolated from… Continue Reading
