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Office of Financial Research – Forging Best Practices in Risk Management, Mark J. Flannery, Paul Glasserman, David K.A. Mordecai, Cliff Rossi – March 26, 2012 “This paper approaches risk management from three perspectives: firm-level risk measurement, governance and incentives, and systemic concerns. These are three essential dimensions of best practices in risk management; although we …
Export Controls – Proposed Reforms Create Opportunities to Address Enforcement Challenges, GAO-12-246, Mar 27, 2012 IT Supply Chain – Additional Efforts Needed by National Security-Related Agencies to Address Risks, GAO-12-579T, Mar 27, 2012 Proliferation Security Initiative, Agencies Have Adopted Policies and Procedures but Steps Needed to Meet Reporting Requirement and to Measure Results, GAO-12-441, Mar …
News release: “Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Acting Director Edward J. DeMarco today released a 2012 Conservatorship Scorecard, which provides the implementation roadmap for the new FHFA Strategic Plan announced in February 2012. The scorecard includes specific objectives and timetables for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) in support of the Strategic Plan. FHFA …
News release: “As college completion rates continue to climb in other parts of the world, a new report released today by Lumina Foundation shows that we must do significantly more to build on the modest gains in higher education attainment seen here at home. Experts gathered at the Rayburn House Office Building to announce the …
CRS – The Eurozone Crisis: Overview and Issues for Congress, February 29, 2012 “What started as a debt crisis in Greece in late 2009 has evolved into a broader economic crisis in the Eurozone that threatens economic stability in Europe and beyond. Some analysts view the Eurozone crisis as the biggest potential threat to the …
CRS – Congressional Oversight of Agency Public Communications: Implications of Agency New Media Use. Kevin R. Kosar, Analyst in American National Government, March 14, 2012 “This report intends to assist Congress in its oversight of executive branch agencies public communications. Here, public communications refers to agency communications that are directed to the public. Many, and …
“The Mind is a Metaphor, is an evolving work of reference, an ever more interactive, more solidly constructed collection of mental metaphorics. This collection of eighteenth-century metaphors of mind serves as the basis for a scholarly study of the metaphors and root-images appealed to by the novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, philosophers, belle-lettrists, preachers, and pamphleteers …
“On Numbers analyzed the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, matching private-sector employment levels from January 2012 against the same month in 2008. The comparison is especially relevant because the recession officially began in December 2007, just one month before the start of the study period. Texas and North Dakota are rarities. …
