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“The United Kingdom National Accounts Blue Book was first published in August 1952 and presents a full set of economic accounts (National Accounts) for the United Kingdom. These accounts are compiled by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). They record and describe economic activity in the UK and as such are used to support the …
Business models for open government data – Gustavo Magalhaes, UT Austin-Portugal Program, The University of Texas at Austin; Catarina Roseira, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Laura Manley, New York University. “The commercial re-use of open government data is broadly expected to generate economic value. However, the practice and study of this trend is still in its infancy. In particular, the issue of …
White House: “Here to help you make smart personal financial decisions and protect your hard-earned income. Including: College Scorecard; Savings Planner; Sales Tax Deduction Calculator; Free File; College Budget Calculator; Mortgage Payment Reduction Estimator; Finding a Housing Counselor; Student Loan Repayment Calculator.
ELIAS GROLL – Foreign Policy: “According to the criminal complaint filed in a New York federal court detailing charges against him, Benthall was easily identified once federal authorities discovered a server used to run Silk Road 2.0. His email address gave away his name and was listed on several publicly available social media profiles, including his account …
Ruy Teixeira & John Halpin | Thursday, November 6, 2014 – Center for American Progress “American voters remain deeply pessimistic about their own economic prospects and those of the country as a whole and distrust all major institutions of government, including the president, Congress, and both major political parties. As a result, the 2014 elections …
Northeastern University: “Internet users regularly receive all kinds of personalized content, from Google search results to product recommendations on Amazon. This is thanks to the complex algorithms that produce results based on users’ profiles and past activity. It’s Big Data at work, and it’s often advantageous for users. But such personalization can also be a …
Speech – Governor Jerome H. Powell At the “The New International Financial System: Analyzing the Cumulative Impact of Regulatory Reform”, 17th Annual International Banking Conference, Chicago, Illinois. November 6, 2014. “Prior to the crisis, the then highly opaque market for OTC derivatives grew at an astonishing and unsustainable pace of nearly 25 percent per annum in a …
An OCLC Research Report by: The OCLC Research Registering Researchers in Authority Files Task Group Key highlights: “While funders and publishers have been adopting researcher identifiers, it is equally important for research institutions and libraries to recognize that “authors are not strings” and that persistent identifiers are needed to link authors their scholarly output. Although there …
“Technological innovation has been changing the jobs people do, and the way they do them, at least since the first spinning jennies went into service in England’s textile industry in the 1760s. And for about as long, people have sought to forecast what new technologies might mean for the world of work — predictions that tend …
News release: “Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased at a 2.0 percent annual rate during the third quarter of 2014, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, as output increased 4.4 percent and hours worked increased 2.3 percent. (All quarterly percent changes in this release are seasonally adjusted annual rates.) From the third quarter of 2013 to …
“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report, A snapshot of debt collection complaints submitted by older consumers, highlighting debt collection as a top complaint for older Americans, many of whom say they struggle with debt in retirement. According to the report, some of the debt collection issues older Americans complain about include collectors: hounding about …
The landlocked European duchy has been called a “magical fairyland” for brand-name corporations seeking to drastically reduce tax bills, by Leslie Wayne, Kelly Carr, Marina Walker Guevara, Mar Cabra and Michael Hudson. November 5, 2014 KEY FINDINGS Pepsi, IKEA, AIG, Coach, Deutsche Bank, Abbott Laboratories and nearly 340 other companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg that …
