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(5 February 2015) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday called for better leadership and a fundamental global rethink of education as a means of combatting the causes of the conflicts and atrocities occurring across the world. In a major speech delivered at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in …
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Monica Anderson – “As the number of measles cases linked to the California outbreak climbs to over 100, health officials are urging parents to properly immunize their children, citing unvaccinated individuals as a main contributor to the disease’s spread. Some have linked the outbreak to the anti-vaccination movement – a group whose members claim vaccinations are …
Pew Research Center – January 29, 2015 – Public and Scientists’ Views on Science and Society – By Cary Funk and Lee Rainie “Scientific innovations are deeply embedded in national life — in the economy, in core policy choices about how people care for themselves and use the resources around them, and in the topmost …
WSJ, By Andrew Van Dam and Renee Lightner – Jobs Come, Jobs Go: National Unemployment – Track the national unemployment rate month by month since 1948, the earliest year with official data, seasonally adjusted.
A Macro View of Shadow Banking: Levered Betas and Wholesale Funding in the Context of Secular Stagnation, Zoltan Pozsar [Draft as of 1/31/2015] “The literature to date on shadow banking has focused on the wholesale funding and private money creation aspects of shadow banking. This paper draws attention to those aspects of shadow banking that …
“As part of the Federal Freedom of Information Act Advisory Committee’s mission to “to foster dialog between the Administration and the requester community, solicit public comments, and develop consensus recommendations for improving FOIA administration and proactive disclosures,” the FOIA Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee has begun to compile a list of previously released reports on agencies’ …
