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News release: “Preliminary FBI figures reveal that the levels of both violent crime and property crime in the U.S. declined in 2010 from the previous year’s data. The 2010 Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, just released today, shows a 5.5 percent decrease in the number of reported violent crimes when compared with data from 2009. …
Official Google Blog: “To help solve these problems, we began testing a mortgage comparison tool in 2009 and have added other financial products such as credit cards, CDs, checking, and savings accounts. Today, were rolling these tools into one place: Google Advisor, a site designed to help you quickly find relevant financial products from many …
“Those with access to private jets fly around the globe on a whim, their flight paths generally hidden from view. But The Wall Street Journal has penetrated this hidden world and, as the FAA considers publishing data on private-aircraft flights, the Journal unveils its own database.” Wall Street Journal Jet Tracker
Impact of the Global Crisis on Banking Sector Soundness in Asian Low-Income Countries, Jack Joo K. Ree. May 2011 “The paper takes stock of the impact of the global financial crisis that began in late 2007 on banking sectors of Asian low-income countries, by exploring bank-level data provided by Bankscope. The paper examines three key …
Bureau of Economic Analysis Survey of Current Business, May 2011 “A Research Spotlight presents RPP estimates for the 50 states and the District of Columbia and for metropolitan areas for 20052009. The article also presents per capita personal income estimates adjusted with RPPs and describes the updated methodology used to derive the RPPs. In another …
What are greenhouse gases and how much are emitted by the United States? Greenhouse gases trap heat from the sun and warm the planet’s surface. Of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, 87% are related to energy consumption. From 1990 to 2009, greenhouse gas emissions in the United States have grown by about 0.04% per year. The …
The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The American tradition is to enshrine economic activity as a central element of “the pursuit of happiness.” In reality, however, economic activity is largely concerned with the relief of unhappiness. At the subsistence level of economic activity that has prevailed through most of human history, people must work to eat …
SearchEngineLand: “Googles ambitious effort to digitize the worlds newspaper archives and make them available online has come to an end. The project launched in 2008, and it currently has digitized material from what looks like about 2,000 newspapers including the Milwaukee Sentinel, whose July 21, 1969 front page is shown at right.”
Fact Sheet: “The Securities and Exchange Commission [May 18, 2011] voted unanimously to propose new rules and amendments intended to increase transparency and improve the integrity of credit ratings. The proposed rules would implement certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and enhance the SECs existing rules governing credit ratings …
