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News release: “Fannie Mae reported a loss of $14.8 billion, or ($2.67) per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2009, compared with a loss of $23.2 billion, or ($4.09) per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2009. Second-quarter results were driven primarily by $18.8 billion of credit-related expenses, reflecting the ongoing impact of …
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): “Assistant Secretary John Morton announced substantial steps, effective immediately, to overhaul the immigration detention system. These reforms will address the vast majority of complaints about our immigration detention, while allowing ICE to maintain a significant, robust detention capacity to carry out serious immigration enforcement. The present immigration detention system …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today issued a Final Rule that will prohibit market manipulation in the petroleum industry. The Rule will prohibit fraud or deceit in wholesale petroleum markets, and omissions of material information that are likely to distort petroleum markets. The FTCs approval of the Rule concludes a proceeding that incorporated several …
Follow up to July 28, 2009 posting New Data On Cell Phone Use and Driving Distraction, news today that Illinois became the 17th state to ban text messaging while driving. CNN: “Illinois will join a growing list of states looking to curb accidents linked to texting. Oregon and New Hampshire banned texting drivers in July, …
CRS: Private Health Insurance Provisions of H.R. 3200, July 27, 2009 “This report summarizes key provisions affecting private health insurance in H.R. 3200, Americas Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, as ordered reported by House Committees on Education and Labor and on Ways and Means. Specifically, this report focuses on Division A (or I) of …
Deutsche Bank Research – Diabetes the price of increasing prosperity, August 5, 2009 “Diabetes is spreading fast. Over the past ten years the number of diabetes patients (with considerably higher blood glucose levels than in healthy persons) has risen by 5% p.a. to approx. 250 million. The disease affects all regions of the world …
Law Practice Technology Information Sources and Tools – Ken Strutin identifies core sources to learn about new technologies that apply to legal research and law practice. In addition, he has identified specific tools that will contribute to managing research, communication and information-based tasks.
“The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced that data from its H.4.1 statistical release, Factors Affecting Reserve Balances of Depository Institutions and Condition Statement of Federal Reserve Banks, which includes the weekly publication of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, is now available through the Data Download Program. The program provides interactive access to Federal Reserve …
News release: “Spending by all U.S. nonfarm businesses on new and used structures and equipment increased 17 percent, or nearly $201 billion, to a total of $1.362 trillion in 2007. This compares with an earlier cyclical peak of $1.161 trillion in 2000, according to a report today from the U.S. Census Bureau. These data come …
News release: “Since the Committee convened in late April, the contraction in economic activity has persisted but at a slower pace, while financial conditions have continued to improve. Aggressive fiscal and monetary policy efforts have played a critical role in slowing the speed of economic contraction. Such efforts have closed off the threat of a …
On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever, By Andrew J. Blumberg and Peter Eckersley, August 2009: “Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people’s movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, …
OMB – Science and Technology Priorities for the FY 2011 Budget, August 4, 2009 “Scientific discovery and technological innovation are major engines of increasing productivity and are indispensable for promoting economic growth, safeguarding the environment, improving the health of the population and safeguarding our national security in the technologically-driven 21st century. To this end, the …
