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Joint Statement of Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, and Jim Nussle, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, on Budget Results for Fiscal Year 2008 “The Administration today released the September 2008 Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government. The statement shows the actual budget totals …
Review of CiteGenie – Automatic Bluebook citations when using Westlaw: Attorney Marc Hershovitz reviews CiteGenie, a new extension for the Firefox web browser that, as its website promises, “automagically” creates Bluebook formatted pinpoint citations when copying from Westlaw.
Commercial Buildings Newly Release of the 2003 End-Use Consumption Data Tables (10/14/2008): “End-use consumption data tables for the 2003 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) are now available. The tables (in PDF, Excel, and HTML formats) show major end-use consumption for electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, district heat, and major fuels for all commercial buildings …
“A bipartisan report circulated today by House Committee on Oversight Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Ranking Member Tom Davis finds that President Bush made a legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege when he directed Attorney General Mukasey to withhold Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgeralds interview of Vice President Cheney from the Committee. A …
Risk-Based Capital: New Basel II Rules Reduced Certain Competitive Concerns, but Bank Regulators Should Address Remaining Uncertainties, GAO-08-953, September 12, 2008 Information Technology: SSA Has Taken Key Steps for Managing Its Investments, but Needs to Strengthen Oversight and Fully Define Policies and Procedures, GAO-08-1020, September 12, 2008 Nonprofit Hospitals: Variation in Standards and Guidance Limits …
News release: “The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets made a statement Tuesday on a series of comprehensive actions to strengthen public confidence in our financial institutions and restore functioning of our credit markets.” Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. on Actions to Protect the U.S. Economy Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve and …
Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement, Enforcement Manual, Office of Chief Counsel, October 6, 2008: “The Enforcement Manual (Manual) is an electronic document designed to be a reference for the staff in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) Division of Enforcement (Division or Enforcement) in the investigation of potential violations of the federal …
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP 2008 Litigation Trends Survey, 253 pages, PDF, prepared by Greenwood Surveys, July 2008. [Note: there were 358 participants in this study: 251 in the U.S. and 100 in the UK] “Following two straight years of reporting declines in the number of new lawsuits and regulatory proceedings including a drop in …
FASB Issues FASB Staff Position No. 157-3, Determining the Fair Value of a Financial Asset When the Market for That Asset Is Not Active, October 10, 2008 Related postings on financial system
News release: “The FDIC Board of Directors today adopted an interim final rule, effective immediately, to simplify the deposit insurance rules for accounts held at FDIC-insured institutions by mortgage servicers…Under the interim rule [effective October 10, 2008], coverage will be provided to the lenders/investors, as a collective group, based on the cumulative amount of the …
Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Inspector General – SECs Oversight of Bear Stearns and Related Entities: Broker-Dealer Risk Assessment Program, September 25, 2008, Report No. 446-B SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets (TM)…”is not fulfilling its obligations in accordance with the underlying purpose of the Broker-Dealer Risk Assessment program in several respects. First, TM …
