Day archives: November 5th, 2012

CRS Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Policy Implications of Expanding Global Access to Nuclear Power

Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Policy Implications of Expanding Global Access to Nuclear Power. Mary Beth Nikitin, Coordinator, Specialist in Nonproliferation, Anthony Andrews, Specialist in Energy and Defense Policy. October 19, 2012. “After several decades of widespread stagnation, nuclear power has attracted renewed interest in recent years. New license applications for 30 reactors have been …

Subjects: Government Documents

Field Notes from the Super-Storm Sandy Catastrophe

Via SSRN: Field Notes from the Super-Storm Sandy Catastrophe, Elizabeth Burleson, Pace Law School, November 4, 2012 Sandy struck a strategically important city in a strategically important country within days of a strategically important election. Climate justice has many synergistic and sometimes competing dimensions. Irrespective of the degree to which climate change contributes to any …

Subjects: Legal Research

EIA initiates daily gasoline availability survey for metropolitan New York

New York City Metropolitan Area Retail Motor Gasoline Supply Report “As of Sunday, Nov. 4, based on EIA’s emergency survey of gasoline availability, EIA estimates that 27% of gasoline stations in the New York metropolitan area did not have gasoline available for sale. This is a sharp decrease from the estimated 67% on Friday. This …

Subjects: Government Documents

The Fiscal Cliff: Macroeconomic Consequences of Tax Increases and Spending Cuts

CRS – The Fiscal Cliff: Macroeconomic Consequences of Tax Increases and Spending Cuts. Jane G. Gravelle, Senior Specialist in Economic Policy, September 20, 2012 “A major policy concern for Congress is when and whether to address the fiscal cliff, a set of tax increases and spending cuts that would substantially reduce the deficit in 2013. …

Subjects: Government Documents

NY Fed – Nudging Inflation Expectations: An Experiment

Nudging Inflation Expectations: An Experiment – Basit Zafar, Olivier Armantier, Scott Nelson, Giorgio Topa, and Wilbert van der Klaauw “Managing consumers inflation expectations is of critical importance to central banks in the conduct of monetary policy. But managing inflation expectations requires more than just monitoring expectations; it also requires an understanding of how these expectations …

Subjects: Government Documents

Seven Steps to Successful Student Loan Repayment

America Saves and Sallie Mae Offer Tips to Help Graduates as Their Student Loan Repayments Begin

Subjects: Government Documents

The United States Government Manual – Searchable Database

“The United States Government Manual is the official handbook of the Federal Government. This special edition of the Federal Register is currently updated to provide comprehensive and authoritative descriptions of the programs and activities of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. The Government Manual also includes information about quasi-official agencies, international organizations with U.S. membership, …

Subjects: E-Government

Research – Mountain meadows dwindling in the Pacific Northwest

Yale University, environment 360: “Some mountain meadows in the U.S. Northwest are steadily disappearing as the effects of climate change have allowed trees to invade the ecosystems in recent decades, a new study says. In an analysis of Jefferson Park, a 330-acre subalpine meadow complex in grasses, shrubs and wildflowers, researchers found that tree occupation …

Subjects: Government Documents

NARA FAQs on the Electoral College

The NARA U.S. Electoral College website provides a range of reliable information on topics that include: the Electoral College, the 2012 Presidential Election Electoral College Maps, Historical Election Results, Responsibilities of the States in the Presidential Election, U.S. Voting & Election Resources.

Subjects: Government Documents

Institutional Investors and Stock Market Liquidity: Trends and Relationships

Institutional Investors and Stock Market Liquidity: Trends and Relationships, Marshall E. Blume and Donald B. Keim. This draft: August 21, 2012. First draft: March, 2008 “In this paper we show that institutional participation in the U.S. stock market in recent decades has played an ever increasing role in explaining cross-sectional variation in stock market illiquidity. …

Subjects: Government Documents

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