Via The Scout Report: “Each year, this publication publishes a guide to the trends and quandaries that will consume the attention of policy-makers, politicians, concerned citizens, and others across the globe. The materials here include political analyses, technology reports, and commentaries on culture. The pieces here are divided into sections that include Leaders, Britain, Europe,… Continue Reading
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Milliman analysis: Interest rate improvement powers $106 billion pension funding improvement in January
News release: “Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, released the results of its latest Pension Funding Index, which consists of 100 of the nations largest corporate defined benefit pension plans. In January, these pensions experienced a $106 billion improvement in funded status based on an $83 billion decrease in the pension benefit… Continue Reading
Patterns of homeownership, delinquency, and foreclosure among youngest baby boomers
Patterns of homeownership, delinquency, and foreclosure among youngest baby boomers, By Alison Aughinbaugh “The recent decline in the housing market was preceded by strong growth for over a decade. From the fourth quarter of 1995 to the fourth quarter of 2005, homeownership rates increased from 65.1 percent to 69.0 percent.1 In the 1990s and early… Continue Reading
FCC Releases Third "Measuring Broadband America" Report
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today released the results of its ongoing, nationwide performance study of residential broadband service in its third Measuring Broadband America report. The report continues the Commissions efforts towards bringing greater clarity and competition to the home broadband services marketplace. This years report reveals that most broadband providers continue to… Continue Reading
Paper – Risks of Friendships on Social Networks
Risks of Friendships on Social Networks – Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari. DISTA, Universit`a degli Studi dellInsubria, Via Mazzini 5, Varese, Italy “In this paper, we explore the risks of friends in social networks caused by their friendship patterns, by using real life social network data and starting from a previously defined risk… Continue Reading
America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation
“The electric power delivery system that carries electricity from large central generators to customers could be severely damaged by a small number of well-informed attackers. The system is inherently vulnerable because transmission lines may span hundreds of miles, and many key facilities are unguarded. This vulnerability is exacerbated by the fact that the power grid,… Continue Reading
EU – Surveying how European workplaces have managed in the economic downturn
“(Dublin, Ireland) In 2009, more than 60% of employees in Europe were covered by a trade union or a works council at the workplace, according to the European Company Survey. At the same time, four out of five workplaces were found to have a good work climate. This week across 32 countries, Eurofound launches the… Continue Reading
Fact Sheet: The Presidents Plan to Make America a Magnet for Jobs by Investing in Manufacturing
Fact Sheet: “President Obama is committed to making America a magnet for jobs and manufacturing so we continue to build things the rest of the world buys. After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 over the past three. Manufacturing production has grown since the end of the recession… Continue Reading
North Koreas Nuclear Weapons: Technical Issues
North Koreas Nuclear Weapons: Technical Issues, Mary Beth Nikitin, Specialist in Nonproliferation, February 12, 2013 “This report summarizes what is known from open sources about the North Korean nuclear weapons programincluding weapons-usable fissile material and warhead estimatesand assesses current developments in achieving denuclearization. Little detailed open-source information is available about the DPRKs nuclear weapons production… Continue Reading
Secrecy News – Army's use of unmanned aerial systems within the United States
Secrecy News, February 14, 2012: “Legal restrictions on the use of unmanned aircraft systems in domestic operations are numerous,” the manual states. The question arises particularly in the context of Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA), refering to military assistance to government agencies in disaster response and other domestic emergencies. “Use of DOD intelligence capabilities… Continue Reading
World Bank – What costs the world $260 billion each year?
News release: “More people today have access to a cell phone than to a clean toilet. At the current rate of progress the world will miss the global sanitation target for 2015 by over half a billion people. And while the drinking water global target was met last year, nearly a billion people still lack… Continue Reading
WSJ Infographic – Defining Middle Classe Depends on Location
WSJ.com: In Measuring the Middle, Location is Everything and the related article. Continue Reading
