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News release: “The Federal Trade Commission, as required by The Do-Not-Call Registry Fee Extension Act of 2007, has approved two reports to Congress: a biennial report focusing on the use of the Do Not Call Registry by both consumers and businesses, as well as the impact that new technologies have had on the Registry, and …
Health Spending Growth At A Historic Low In 2008: “In 2008, U.S. health care spending growth slowed to 4.4 percentthe slowest rate of growth over the past forty-eight years. The deceleration was broadly based for nearly all payers and health care goods and services, as growth in both price and nonprice factors slowed amid the …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, see Presidential Report on Radiation Protection Advice: Screening of Humans for Security Purposes Using Ionizing Radiation Scanning Systems – A Report Prepared by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements: “This Presidential Report from the National Council on Radiation …
Issuance of Guidance and Summary of Actions Taken in Response to the Report of the Department of Justice Criminal Discovery and Case Management Working Group, David W. Ogden, Deputy Attorney General, January 4, 2010 “By making deliberate choices regarding discovery issues, prosecutors are most likely to comply with discovery obligations imposed by law and Department …
The Feasibility of Systemic Risk Measurement: Written Testimony for the House Financial Services Committee Hearing on Systemic Risk Regulation, Working Paper, October 2009, Andrew W. Lo [Harris & Harris Group Professor, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering] Related postings on financial system
January 2010 Petroleum Marketing Monthly With Data for October 2009 – Jan 4, 2010: “Monthly price and volume statistics on crude oil and petroleum products at a national, regional and state level.”
News release: “McAfee Inc. unveiled its 2010 Threat Predictions report. McAfee Labs believes cybercriminals will target social networking sites and third-party applications, use more complex Trojans and botnets to build and execute attacks, and take advantage of HTML 5 to create emerging threats. McAfee Labs also predicts 2010 will be a good year for law …
Quarterly Coal Report (QCR) – 3rd Quarter 2009 Jan 5, 2010: “Provides detailed quarterly coal data for July-September 2009 and aggregated quarterly historical coal data for 2003 through 3rd Quarter 2009. This report now includes data for coke and breeze commercial sales, steam and metallurgical coal imports by Customs District, coke import and export …
National Academy of Sciences: “The transportation sector cannot continue on its current path: The volatility of oil prices threatens the U.S. economy, the large proportion of oil importation threatens U.S. energy security, and the massive contribution of greenhouse gases threatens the environment. The development of domestic sources of alternative transportation fuels with lower greenhouse emissions …
