On March 1, 2013, the Department of State posted a copy of the Environmental Resources Management (ERM) contract and organizational conflicts of interest disclosures. The documents are available here. On March 1, 2013, the Department of State published a Media Note announcing the release of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. On March 1, 2013,… Continue Reading
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Report – Money Matters – Stresses Need for Student Financial Literacy Education
News release: “A new report detailing the findings from a survey of 40,000 first-year college students from across the U.S. demonstrates to colleges and universities how student financial problems not only impact individual student outcomes but also the institutional mission. Money Matters on Campus: How Early Attitudes and Behaviors Affect the Financial Decisions of First-Year… Continue Reading
American Lawyer Book Review: Richard Susskind's anaysis of the future state of law firms
Storm Warning – In a new book, futurist Richard Susskind finds most firms unprepared for the challenges ahead. “…my analysis suggests that law firms in the coming decade and beyond will be driven relentlessly by their clients to reduce their costs. For most firms, despite their current hesitancy, I predict that this will lead eventually… Continue Reading
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have concluded that over 40,000 Nazi camps and ghettos existed during Hitler's reign of terror between 1933 to 1945
Huffington Post: “Researchers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have concluded that over 40,000 Nazi camps and ghettos existed during Hitler’s reign of terror between 1933 to 1945. The total is far higher than most historians had previously estimated, according to The New York Times. Geoffrey Megargee and Martin Dean, the lead editors of… Continue Reading
Recent updates regarding the Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement
Link: “In January 2013, thirteen mortgage servicing companies subject to enforcement actions for deficient practices in mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing reached an agreement in principle with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to provide more than $9.3 billion in cash payments… Continue Reading
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on Long-Term Interest Rates
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Annual Monetary/Macroeconomics Conference: The Past and Future of Monetary Policy, sponsored by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California March 1, 2013 – Long-Term Interest Rates “In my comments, I will delve more deeply into the reasons why these long-term interest rates have fallen so low. This… Continue Reading
Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines, November 2012
Search Quality Rating Guidelines, November 2012 “Google relies on raters, working in countries and languages around the world, to help us measure the quality of our search results, ranking, and search experience. These raters perform a variety of different kinds of rating tasks designed to give us information about the quality of different kinds of… Continue Reading
NY Fed – The Implementation of Current Asset Purchases
The Implementation of Current Asset Purchases. March 1, 2013. Simon Potter, Executive Vice President. Remarks at the Annual Meeting with Primary Dealers, New York City “The Federal Reserves asset purchase programs were designed to remove risk from the portfolios of private investors. For example, Treasury and agency MBS purchases remove duration risk, thereby lowering longer-term… Continue Reading
National Pipeline Mapping System
The NPMS Public Map Viewer enables the user to view National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) data one county at a time. NPMS data consists of gas transmission pipelines and hazardous liquid trunklines. It does not contain gathering or distribution pipelines, such as lines which deliver gas to a customer’s home. Therefore, not all pipelines in… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Presidential Appointments, End-Stage Renal Disease, Export Promotion
Agricultural Quarantine Inspection Fees – Major Changes Needed to Align Fee Revenues with Program Costs, GAO-13-268, Mar 1, 2013 Government Operations – Characteristics of Presidential Appointments that do not Require Senate Confirmation, GAO-13-299R, Mar 1, 2013 End-Stage Renal Disease – CMS Should Improve Design and Strengthen Monitoring of Low-Volume Adjustment, GAO-13-287, Mar 1, 2013 Export… Continue Reading
The U.S. Dollar Exchange Rate and the Demand for Oil
De Schryder, Selien and Peersman, Gert, The U.S. Dollar Exchange Rate and the Demand for Oil (February 27, 2013). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4126. Available at SSRN. “Using recent advances in panel data estimation techniques, we find that an appreciation of the US dollar exchange rate leads to a significant decline in oil demand… Continue Reading
New Data Shows 29 States Hit Record Export Levels In 2012
New release: “U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank today announced new state export data that shows 29 states set new records for export sales in 2012. In total, 35 states achieved merchandise export growth in 2012, and 20 of those states experienced growth of at least five percent or more. Total merchandise exports from… Continue Reading
