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Fiscal Space, Prepared by Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, Jun I. Kim, and Mahvash S. Qureshi, September 1, 2010, IMF Staff Position Note “The fiscal challenges facing advanced economies are unprecedented, and bring to the fore questions about how to assess fiscal sustainability. Intertemporal solvencythe notion that governments eventually repay their debtsrequires only that …
Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession, by Sarah Anderson, Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati, Kevin Shih: “The 17th annual executive compensation survey looks at how CEOs laid off thousands while raking in millions.” “Corporate executives, in reality, are not suffering at all. Their pay, to be sure, dipped on average in 2009 from …
Long-Term Trends in Public Finances in the G-7 Economies, IMF Staff Position Note, September 1, 2010 SPN/10/13, Carlo Cottarelli and Andrea Schaechter “Todays record public debt levels in most advanced economies are not only a direct fall-out from the global crisis. Public debt had ratcheted up over many decades before, when it had been used, …
Default in Today’s Advanced Economies: Unnecessary, Undesirable, and Unlikely, Carlo Cottarelli, Lorenzo Forni, Jan Gottschalk, and Paolo Mauro, IMF Staff Position Note, September 1, 2010, SPN/10/12 “The state of the public finances has worsened substantially in the main advanced economies as a result of the 200809 global financial and economic crisis. For some peripheral European …
August 2010 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® – PMI at 56.3%. New Orders, Production and Employment Growing, Supplier Deliveries Slower, Inventories Growing “Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in August for the 13th consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 16th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing …
U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade by Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn “The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic …
Pipeline Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Help Strengthen Security, but Could Improve Priority-Setting and Assessment Processes, GAO-10-867, August 04, 2010 “The United States depends on avast network of pipelines to transport energy. GAO was asked to review the Transportation Security Administrations (TSA) efforts to help ensure pipeline security. This report addresses the extent to …
Official Google Blog: “People tell us all the time that theyre getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you meanhere at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a daymail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail …
2009 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, Office of Immigration Statistics, Homeland Security, August 2010 “Statistical data on immigration have been published annually by the U.S. government since the 1890s. Over the years, the federal agencies responsible for reporting on immigration have changed, as have the content, format, and title of the annual publication. Currently, immigration data …
Young Children of Immigrants: The Leading Edge of America’s Future, Karina Fortuny, Donald J. Hernandez, Ajay Chaudry, Publication Date: August 31, 2010 “Children of immigrants have nearly doubled as a share of pre-K to 3rd grade students since 1990. The share of children under age 8 with immigrant parents stood at 24 percent in 2008, …
Sustainable Real Exchange Rates in the New EU Member States: What did the Great Recession Change? Jan Babecký, Ale Bulíř, and Kateřina mídková, August 2010 “The Great Recession affected export and import patterns in our sample countries, and these changes, coupled with a more volatile external environment, have profound impact on our estimates of real …
