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United Kingdom2011 Article IV Consultation Concluding Statement of the Mission, June 6, 2011 “Aided by the implementation of a wide-ranging policy program, the post-crisis repair of the UK economy is underway. However, the weakness in economic growth and rise in inflation over the last several months was unexpected. This raises the question whether it is …
environment 360: “For millennia, the blanket of ice covering the Arctic Ocean protected the shore from damaging storms. But as that ice buffer disappears, increasingly powerful storm surges are eroding the coastline and sending walls of seawater inland, devastating Arctic ecosystems that support abundant wildlife…” by Ed Struzik “A recent study conducted by Benjamin Jones …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “The House has approved the 2012 budget for the Transportation Security Administration, cutting $270 million from the amount originally requested by the Agency. The cuts include $76 million that had been designated for the purchase of 275 airport …
Follow up to recent posting, World Health Organization: Radio frequency electromagnetic fields are possibly carcinogenic, news that highlights findings: Some cell phones safer than others, tests find CNET: Cell phone radiation levels – by Nicole Lee, Kent German NYT: Piercing the Fog Around Cellphones and Cancer, By Tara Parker Pope
Military Readiness: Army and Marine Corps Reporting Provides Additional Data, but Actions Needed to Improve Consistency, GAO-11-526, June 03, 2011 Social Security Disability: Ticket to Work Participation Has Increased, but Additional Oversight Needed, GAO-11-324, May 06, 2011
A Description of the Immigrant Population: An Update – June 2, 2011: “This document is the latest in CBO’s series on immigration. It updates A Description of the Immigrant Population (November 2004), providing an overview of the nation’s foreign-born population, with a particular focus on the years 2000 to 2009. It discusses changes in the …
The Economist – “…during the current downturn, the unemployment rate rose as the crime rate fell. Between 2008 and 2009 violent crime fell by 5.3% and property crime by 4.6%; between 2009 and 2010, according to the preliminary Uniform Crime Report released by the FBI on May 23rd, violent crime fell by another 5.5% and …
“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released the Quarterly Household Debt and Credit Report for the first quarter of 2011, which showed signs of healing in the consumer credit markets. Evidence of improvement includes: an increase in credit limits, by about $30 billion or 1%, for the first time since the third quarter of …
Regulating Systemically Important Financial Firms, Governor Daniel K. Tarullo At the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., June 3, 2011: “As the one-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act approaches, there will be much discussion about the progress that has been made in reforming financial regulation. Today I would like to get a …
Official Google Blog: “…were announcing schema.org, a new initiative from Google, Bing and Yahoo! to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages. With schema.org, site owners and developers can learn about structured data and improve how their sites appear in major search engines. The site aims to be a …
Dodd-Frank Rulemaking Progress Report – Progress as of June 1, 2011: “This Davis Polk Dodd-Frank Rulemaking Progress Report is the third in a series of reports that use empirical data to help market participants and policymakers assess the progress of the rulemaking and other work that has been done by regulators under the Dodd-Frank Act. …
