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Dodd-Frank Progress Report Generated using the Davis Polk Regulatory Tracker™ January 2014 “In Brief: December 2013 36 Requirements Met, 1 Proposed. The CFTC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, OCC and SEC released final regulations implementing the Volcker Rule. The Federal Reserve released a proposed rule on extensions of credit by Federal Reserve Banks. 1 Study. The FIO issued a study …
Via Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow – Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives “Back in 2012, when Canada’s Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first. But only an insignificant fraction of the archives got …
“In October, Washington Post photographer Linda Davidson and I set off for Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon to report on the Syrian refugee crisis, one of the largest forced migrations of people since World War II. Our goal was to document the size and complexity of the crisis, showing its effects on the lives of individual …
“The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that the FBI may withhold a memo prepared by the Office of Legal Counsel concerning the law governing “exigent letter” requests to telephone companies for call records. The decision affirmed an earlier opinion that the memo was privileged advice, and exempt from disclosure under the Freedom information Act. The …
By Bettina Boxall: “The signs aren’t good when the chief of California’s snow survey has to walk over bare ground to take a snowpack measurement in the Sierra Nevada, as Frank Gehrke did Friday near Echo Summit. Manual and electronic readings up and down the range placed the statewide snowpack at 20% of normal for this …
Print or e-books? By MOHSIN HAMID / In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude – and ANNA HOLMES / Who or what we choose to read can be as telling as the clothes we wear, and an e-book feels like a detail withheld, a …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 3, 2014 – The Federal Reserve: Looking Back, Looking Forward “In less than a month my term as Fed Chairman will end. Needless to say, my tenure has been eventful–for the Federal Reserve, for the country, and for me personally. I thought …
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