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Mark Scott, NYT [includes text of Wheatley’s prepared remarks]: “On September 28, 2012 – Martin Wheatley, the managing director of Britains Financial Services Authority, will outline plans to increase oversight of the rate-setting process, which underpins more than $350 trillion of financial products like mortgages and student loans. As part of that effort, regulators are …
Community Reinvestment Act – Challenges in Quantifying Its Effect on Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Investment, GAO-12-869R, Aug 28, 2012 Medical Devices – FDA Should Expand Its Consideration of Information Security for Certain Types of Devices, GAO-12-816, Aug 31, 2012 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Additional DHS Actions Needed on Foreign Worker Permit Program, GAO-12-975, …
News release: “With scrutiny of executive compensation at an all-time high as a result of the implementation of say-on-pay rules, more companies are using alternate definitions of pay to demonstrate their pay-for-performance alignment and to counter negative say-on-pay vote recommendations by proxy advisory firms, according to the latest Director Notes report from The Conference Board. …
Trends in News Consumption: 1991-2012, September 27, 2012 “The transformation of the nations news landscape has already taken a heavy toll on print news sources, particularly print newspapers. But there are now signs that television news which so far has held onto its audience through the rise of the internet also is increasingly …
News release: “The 2010 Census showed that people who reported multiple races grew by a larger percentage than those reporting a single race. According to the 2010 Census brief The Two or More Races Population: 2010, the population reporting multiple races (9.0 million) grew by 32.0 percent from 2000 to 2010, compared with those who …
Naomi Gilens: “Justice Department documents released today by the ACLU reveal that federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly monitoring Americans electronic communications, and doing so without warrants, sufficient oversight, or meaningful accountability. The documents, handed over by the government only after months of litigation, are the attorney generals 2010 and 2011 reports on the use …
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), James K. Jackson, Specialist in International Trade and Finance. September 26, 2012 “The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is comprised of 9 members, two ex officio members, and other members as appointed by the President representing major departments and agencies within …
“What is big data? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase …
CRS – The Eurozone Crisis: Overview and Issues for Congress, September 26, 2012 “What started as a debt crisis in Greece in late 2009 has evolved into a broader economic and political crisis in the Eurozone and European Union (EU). The Eurozone faces four major, and related, economic challenges: (1) high debt levels and public …
