Day archives: July 14th, 2011

A General Equilibrium Model of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles

A General Equilibrium Model of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles – Enrique G. Mendoza and Vivian Z. Yue – IMF Working Paper, Research Department. July 2011 “Emerging markets business cycle models treat default risk as part of an exogenous interest rate on working capital, while sovereign default models treat income fluctuations as an exogenous endowment …

Subjects: Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Children's Television Act, Defense Logistics, DOD Civilian Personnel, Dodd-Frank Act, EPA Health Risk Assessments

Children’s Television Act: FCC Could Improve Efforts to Oversee Enforcement and Provide Public Information, GAO-11-659, July 14, 2011 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands – Status of Transition to Federal Immigration Law, GAO-11-805T, July 14, 2011 Defense Logistics: Oversight and a Coordinated Strategy Needed to Implement the Army Workload and Performance System, GAO-11-566R, July 14, …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

The Macroeconomic and Budgetary Effects of an Illustrative Policy for Reducing the Federal Budget Deficit

The Macroeconomic and Budgetary Effects of an Illustrative Policy for Reducing the Federal Budget Deficit – As requested by Senators Kent Conrad and Jeff Sessions, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, July 14, 2011 “The federal government’s debt has increased dramatically in the past few years, and large annual budget deficits will …

Subjects: Government Documents

S&P : Special Report: U.S. Negative CreditWatch Placement And The Knock-On Effects

“Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services today said it placed its ‘AAA’ long-term and ‘A-1+’ short-term sovereign credit ratings on the United States of America on CreditWatch with negative implications. The CreditWatch action reflects our view of two separate but related issues. The first issue is the continuing failure to raise the U.S. government debt ceiling …

Subjects: Freedom of Information

New FTC Video Helps Businesses Comply with CAN-SPAM Rule

News release: “Say “spam” and most business executives think of annoying e-mail messages, like the ones that hold out a phony offer to split $50 million that’s sitting in a foreign bank. Of course, this type of message is covered by the Federal Trade Commission’s CAN-SPAM Rule, which is designed to protect consumers from deceptive …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents

FTC Testifies on Protecting Consumers' Privacy

“The Federal Trade Commission today told Congress that protecting consumers’ privacy – through law enforcement, education and policy initiatives – is a top priority at the agency. In delivering Commission testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, and Communications and Technology, Commissioner Edith Ramirez said, “Privacy has …

Subjects: Privacy

BLS Producer Price Index June 2011

“The Producer Price Index for finished goods decreased 0.4 percent in June, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This decline followed increases of 0.2 percent in May and 0.8 percent in April. At the earlier stages of processing, prices received by manufacturers of intermediate goods were unchanged in June, and the …

Subjects: Government Documents

OECD Regions at a Glance 2011

“The differences between countries are often not as great as the disparities within them. OECD Regions at a Glance makes these differences across “places” apparent and unpacks what they imply for national performance and individual welfare. It does so by providing region-by-region indicators that help to identify areas that are outperforming or lagging behind in …

Subjects: Government Documents

Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace

Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, July 2011 “…the Department of Defense (DoD) depends on cyberspace to function. It is difficult to overstate this reliance; DoD operates over 15,000 networks and seven million computing devices across hundreds of installations in dozens of countries around the globe. DoD uses cyberspace to enable its military, …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Internet