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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the 48th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago, Illinois. May 10, 2012 Banks and Bank Lending: The State of Play: “The banking sector overall also has substantially improved its liquidity position over the past few years. Indeed, large banks in the aggregate have more than doubled their holdings …
Remarks by Martin J. Gruenberg, Acting Chairman, FDIC to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Bank Structure Conference; Chicago, IL – May 10, 2012 “Today I would like to take the opportunity to discuss one of those challenging issues the orderly resolution of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). The Dodd-Frank Act provided important new …
The Plastic Ocean: “Much of the plastic swirling around the sea ends up in the North Pacific Gyre, where four great ocean currents meet to create a swirl of water moving clockwise that is twice the size of the United States. Its less polite name is the North Pacific Garbage Patch. A new study led …
“The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that foreign-born households are, on average, larger than native households, have more children under age 18, and are more likely to be multigenerational. The average size of foreign-born households (3.4 people) was larger than that of native-born households (2.5 people). About 62 percent of foreign-born family households included children …
2011 Domestic Uranium Production Report, May 2012 “U.S. uranium exploration drilling was 5,441 holes covering 3.3 million feet in 2011. Development drilling was 5,156 holes and 3.0 million feet. Combined, total uranium drilling was 10,597 holes covering 6.3 million feet, 47 percent more holes than in 2010. Expenditures for uranium drilling in the United States …
Vietnam: “Over the course of two decades Vietnam emerged as an important oil and natural gas producer in Southeast Asia. Vietnam has boosted exploration activities, allowed for greater foreign company investment and cooperation in the oil and gas sectors, and introduced market reforms to support the energy industry. These measures have helped to increase oil …
EIA: “The Department of Energy (DOE) recently released a study of the 2010 lighting market, finding that lighting across all sectors became more energy efficient since their study of the 2001 lighting market. The residential sector, which accounted for 25% of total lighting energy consumption in 2010, remained the least energy efficient of the sectors, …
