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News release: “Abuses and abusers from the subprime mortgage market have begun showing up in the reverse mortgage market, putting at risk the equity and savings of millions of seniors. Thats the main finding of Subprime Revisited: How the Rise of the Reverse Mortgage Lending Industry Puts Older Homeowners at Risk, a report issued today …
Bridge Employment and Retirees’ Health: A Longitudinal Investigation, Yujie Zhan, MS, Mo Wang, PhD, and Songqi Liu, MS, University of Maryland; Kenneth S. Shultz, PhD, California State University, San Bernardino; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 4. “The present study examined the relationship between bridge employment and retirees health outcomes (i.e., major diseases, …
News release: “Increases in global contraceptive use have contributed to a decrease in the number of unintended pregnancies and, in turn, a decline in the number of abortions, which fell from an estimated 45.5 million procedures in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003. While both the developed and the developing world experienced these positive trends, …
Office of the Special Inspector General for the the Troubled Asset Relief Program – October 14, 2009 – Extent of Federal Agencies’ Oversight of AIG Compensation Varied, and Important Challenges Remain Related postings on financial system
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: Differing effects of hand-held cellphone bans in New York and Washington, DC….[Washington Post – “…cellphones and text messaging devices they believe are responsible for 636,000 crashes that result in 2,600 deaths, 342,000 injuries and a financial toll of $43 billion each year.”] Status Report Research paper Related postings on texting …
Cyberdeterrence and cyberwar, by Martin C. Libicki: “This monograph presents the results of a fiscal year 2008 study, Defining and Implementing Cyber Command and Cyber Warfare. It discusses the use and limits of power in cyberspace, which has been likened to a medium of potential conflict, much as the air and space domains are. The …
Sunlight Foundation: “One year after the biggest economic collapse since the Great Depression, Congress is still debating new financial regulations to protect consumers and prevent risk-taking in the financial sector. The House Committee on Financial Services is currently undertaking the important first step of writing, amending and voting on some of the pieces of the …
“As governors across the country look at ways they can help build a green economy in their state, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) has commissioned Collaborative Economics Inc. (CEI) to prepare a profile of each states “green” economy. State profiles can be found by clicking on this map. This data …
“The most current information on the nation’s traffic picture is outlined in the 2009 Urban Mobility Report, published recently by the Texas Transportation Institute. This year’s installment tracks a quarter century of traffic patterns in 439 U.S. urban areas from 1982 through 2007. The report was prepared by researchers David Schrank and Tim Lomax.” Press …
Preparing for the Flu: A Communication Toolkit for the Federal Workforce – “The purpose of Preparing for the Flu: A Communication Toolkit for the Federal Workforce is to provide information and communication resources to help federal agencies and employees implement recommendations from CDC in planning and responding to the 20092010 Influenza Season.” Related postings on …
News release: “Elinor Ostrom [Indiana University, Bloomington, IN – the first woman awarded this prize]] has demonstrated how common property can be successfully managed by user associations. Oliver Williamson [University of California, Berkeley, CA] has developed a theory where business firms serve as structures for conflict resolution. Over the last three decades these seminal contributions …
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search, this insightful commentary from The American Lawyer – Scanning the Future, by Ben Hallman: “Lawyers familiar with the talks say the book publishing industry had watched in horror as the music business waged a scorched-earth campaign against file-sharing sites like Napster, only to see their profits …
