Day archives: May 16th, 2012

Designating Systemically Important Financial Institutions: Balancing Costs and Benefits

Designating Systemically Important Financial Institutions: Balancing Costs and Benefits, Testimony before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Douglas J. Elliott, Fellow in Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution “In Dodd-Frank, Congress wisely gave regulators a wider mandate to oversee systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). These institutions are the ones most capable …

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Subjects: Congress, Government Documents

Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies – 13th Annual Retirement

News release: “American workers, shaken by the realities of the Great Recession, have adjusted their visions of retirement according to the 13th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey released today by the non‐profit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies ® (“The Center”). The Center surveyed more than 3,600 American workers and found that the majority of workers plan …

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Subjects: Government Documents

Google Introduces Introducing the Knowledge Graph

Google Official Blog: “The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search, …

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Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Treasury – How Refinancing Can Help Families

“Today, millions of Americans who are current on their mortgage payments cannot refinance at historically-low interest rates. The President is proposing legislation that would allow more homeowners to refinance. Under the President’s plan, they would have two refinancing options. Check out what those options are in this infographic, by Jenni LeCompte Related postings on the …

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Subjects: Government Documents

A Future Without Key Social and Economic Statistics for the Country

United States Census Directors Blog: “Our country faces important Federal funding challenges linked to the current recession and its aftermath. On the Census Bureau’s part, we have been striving to cut administrative costs, reengineer our survey processes, and find innovative ways to squeeze every cent of taxpayer money we get…It is also my duty to …

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Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legislation

CRS – Medicare: History of Insolvency Projections

Medicare: History of Insolvency Projections, Patricia A. Davis, Specialist in Health Care Financing. May 11, 2012. By the same author, see also Medicare Financing, May 11, 2012 “Medicare is the nation’s health insurance program for persons age 65 and older and certain disabled persons. Medicare consists of four distinct parts: Part A (Hospital Insurance, or …

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Subjects: Government Documents

NY Fed: Shadow Banking Regulation

Shadow Banking Regulation. Tobias Adrian and Adam B. Ashcraft, April 2012, Number 559 “Shadow banks conduct credit intermediation without direct, explicit access to public sources of liquidity and credit guarantees. Shadow banks contributed to the credit boom in the early 2000s and collapsed during the financial crisis of 2007-09. We review the rapidly growing literature …

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Subjects: Government Documents

Airport Insecurity: TSA’s Failure to Cost-Effectively Procure, Deploy and Warehouse its Screening Technologies

Airport Insecurity: TSA’s Failure to Cost-Effectively Procure, Deploy and Warehouse its Screening Technologies – Joint Majority Staff Report, 112th Congress – May 9, 2012 “This report is a critical examination and analysis of TSA’s procurement, deployment, and storage of screening technologies. During the past ten years, TSA has struggled to cost-effectively utilize taxpayer funding to …

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Subjects: Congress, Government Documents
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