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What’s the Fallout for Dogs Near Fukushima? by Jenny Marder “The dogs and cats spotted in Katsurao were were among thousands of pets abandoned after residents were forced to quickly evacuate areas around the Fukushima plant, after the tsunami damaged the facility, causing equipment failures and a release of radioactive materials…Upon visiting the area after …
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the agency filed a record 735 enforcement actions in the fiscal year that ended September 30. This record number includes many cases involving highly complex products, transactions, and market practices, including those related to the financial crisis as well as insider trading by market professionals…In …
A Gold Rush of Subsidies in the Search for Clean Energy: “Renewable energy has received exceptional help from the government, mostly as part of the 2009 stimulus bill. That is ending, but some say it has been unnecessary.” Graphic Graphic: Stacking Clean Energy Subsidies Document – Solar and Wind Power Generation Projects With Department of …
“FHFA Acting Director Edward J. DeMarco responded to a letter from numerous U.S. Senators [Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs – with a hearing scheduled for November 15, 2011] regarding executive compensation at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Attached is the text of the letter…Losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) have …
Atlantic Wire – Adam Clark Estes: “When a federal judge ruled that Twitter must reveal the private data of three WikiLeaks associates on Thursday, privacy advocates died a little inside. The two organizations that had defended the three users, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundations (EFF), immediately filed mournful blog posts …
Office of Finance Announces Preliminary Unaudited Third Quarter 2011 Combined Operating Highlights for the Federal Home Loan Banks “These highlights are prepared from the unaudited financial information of each Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLBank) and are subject to change. This announcement contains unaudited individual and combined FHLBank balance sheet and income statement highlights as of …
