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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Causes of the Recent Financial and Economic Crisis Before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, hearing, Too Big to Fail: Expectations and Impact of Extraordinary Government Intervention and the role of Systemic Risk in the Financial Crisis, Washington, D.C., September 2, 2010 “If the crisis has a single lesson, it is that …
News release:” The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has adopted a temporary rule requiring municipal advisors to register with the SEC by October 1, a deadline established by the newly-enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Municipal advisors provide advice to state and local governments and other borrowers involved in …
Preliminary Staff Report, Governmental Rescues of ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’ Financial Institutions, August 31, 2010 “The purpose of this preliminary staff report is to describe governmental rescues of financial institutions during the decades leading up to the financial crisis and during the crisis itself. Section I provides an executive summary of the report. Section II describes how federal …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has set a briefing schedule for EPIC v. DHS, No. 10-1157, EPIC’s challenge to the airport body scanner program. EPIC has alleged that that the Department …
“Very timely Justice Department data show that Immigration Judges are declining substantially fewer requests for asylum. Denial rates have reached the lowest level in the last quarter of a century according to a new analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Twenty five years ago, in FY 1986, almost nine out of ten (89%) …
Birthright Citizenship in the United States, A Global Comparison By Jon Feere, Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies “Every year, 300,000 to 400,000 children are born to illegal immigrants in the United States. Despite the foreign citizenship and illegal status of the parent, the executive branch of the U.S. government automatically recognizes …
InformationWeek: “Agencies that deal with disaster-management are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Earl, as the U.S. braces for another storm season. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has updated the homepage of its website with a Hurricane Earl Response tab, which includes a link to the National Weather Service’s hurricane watches and warnings map. FEMA …
