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BLS – Employment Situation Summary October 2015: “Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 271,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 5.0 percent. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and construction.”
Internal Controls: The Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation Has Made Significant Progress but Needs to Fully Document Certain Policies and Procedures, GAO-16-52: Published: Nov 6, 2015. Publicly Released: Nov 6, 2015: “GAO recommends that the Foundation (1) fully document its internal control policies and procedures related to the hiring and separation of …
“Vanguard examined gender differences in participants of defined contribution (DC) plans, finding that women exhibit better savings behaviors but trail men in outcomes. A new white paper reviewed participation, savings rates, and investments to investigate the substantial imbalance in 401(k) wealth accumulation for men and women. Despite the seemingly equalizing influences of autopilot plan design, …
Draft Investigatory Powers Bill Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of Her Majesty November 2015 – 299 pages: “The provisions in the draft Bill are the product of discussion with industry, academia, technical experts and civil liberties groups. They seek to protect both privacy and security by …
“LawLibe™ is a law library for your iPhone®, iPad®, or iPod Touch®. LawLibe™ is a free app that comes preloaded with the U.S. Constitution. Then you can download additional legal content directly into the app, including the U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, State Statutes, the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, and more! Features: • …
Via OTI – “The Open Technology Institute at New America is committed to freedom and social justice in the digital age. To achieve these goals, it intervenes in traditional policy debates, builds technology, and deploys tools with communities.” Controlling Internet Infrastructure. The “IANA Transition” and Why It Matters for the Future of the Internet, Part …
“Many of the world’s most powerful Internet and telecommunications companies are not doing enough to respect basic user rights, according to new research released today. Even the companies that ranked highest are missing the mark in some ways, and improvements are needed across the board to demonstrate a greater commitment to users’ freedom of expression …
Via PubMed – Two Definitions of Waiting Well. Sweeny K, Reynolds CA, Falkenstein A, Andrews SE, Dooley MD. “Waiting for uncertain news is often distressing, at times even more distressing than facing bad news. The goal of this article was to investigate strategies for “waiting well” during these periods of uncertainty. Specifically, we propose 2 …
“Thirty-two years ago, a NATO nuclear release exercise named Able Archer 83 “may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger,” according to an above-Top Secret President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board report released last month to the National Security Archive after a twelve-year fight. The release sparked extensive media coverage …
TPP Final Table of Contents: “The text of the Agreement (30 Chapters, 2000+ pages) was released by TPP Parties on 5 November 2015 and can be accessed by chapter. The text will continue to undergo legal review and will be translated into French and Spanish language versions prior to signature.”
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – Haircut floors for non-centrally cleared securities financing transactions – consultative document. November 5, 2015. “In October 2014, the FSB published a report on Strengthening Oversight and Regulation of Shadow Banking – Regulatory framework for haircuts on non-centrally cleared securities financing transactions and introduced a framework for haircut floors for non-centrally …
“The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today released OTC derivatives statistics at end-June 2015. November 2015. • Activity in global OTC derivatives markets fell in the first half of 2015. The notional amount of outstanding contracts declined from $629 trillion at end-December 2014 to $553 trillion at end-June 2015. Even after adjustment for the effect …
