Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of U.S. Trade Secrets, February 2013: “The Administration will utilize trade policy tools to increase international enforcement against trade secret theft to minimize unfair competition against U.S. companies. The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) will make additional efforts to promote adequate and effective protection and enforcement of trade secrets. These… Continue Reading
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GAO's 2013 High Risk List
High Risk List: “Every two years at the start of a new Congress, GAO calls attention to agencies and program areas that are high risk due to their vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or are most in need of transformation. This site presents GAO’s current High Risk List [comprising 30 areas], explains what… Continue Reading
Unauthorized Aliens: Policy Options for Providing Targeted Immigration Relief
CRS – Unauthorized Aliens: Policy Options for Providing Targeted Immigration Relief, Andorra Bruno, Specialist in Immigration Policy, February 13, 2013 “The 113th Congress is expected to consider comprehensive immigration reform legislation. If and when it does, a key challenge will be how to address the unauthorized alien population, estimated to number some 11 million. The… Continue Reading
Accounting for Political Feasibility in Climate Instrument Choice
Gilligan, Jonathan M. and Vandenbergh, Michael P., Accounting for Political Feasibility in Climate Instrument Choice (February 18, 2013). Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 13-7; Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-4. Available at SSRN This Essay argues for consideration of political opportunity costs in the criteria used to evaluate climate policy instruments. Law… Continue Reading
Commentary – The Saga of Barrett Brown: Inside Anonymous and the War on Secrecy
The Saga of Barrett Brown: Inside Anonymous and the War on Secrecy, By Christian Stork, February 21, 2013 “Alleged hacktivist Barrett Brown, the 31-year old mislabeled spokesman for the shadowy hacker collective known as Anonymous, faces federal charges that could put him away for over a hundred years…His crime: making leaked e-mails accessible to the… Continue Reading
Moody's downgrades UK's government bond rating to Aa1 from Aaa; outlook is now stable
“London, 22 February 2013 — Moody’s Investors Service has today downgraded the domestic – and foreign-currency government bond ratings of the United Kingdom by one notch to Aa1 from Aaa. The outlook on the ratings is now stable. The key interrelated drivers of today’s action are: The continuing weakness in the UK’s medium-term growth outlook,… Continue Reading
The Center for Legislative Archives
“The history of the U.S. Congress is documented in the official records of Congress, the private and personal papers of members of Congress, and many other sources. Official records and some personal papers are located in the National Archives at the Center for Legislative Archives, but most personal papers are geographically dispersed in repositories around… Continue Reading
MEF Global Privacy Survey – challenges and opportunities
“Mobile apps offer consumers fun and functionality via the one device that stays with them throughout the day. The explosion of the apps ecosystem is driven by new business models where many apps are free or heavily discounted which of course consumers love, but where developers monetize the information they collect on their users. The… Continue Reading
Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 113th Congress
Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 113th Congress, January 25, 2013 “The 113th Congress may face a number of issues related to currently available unemployment insurance programs: Unemployment Compensation (UC), temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08), and Extended Benefits (EB). With the national unemployment rate decreasing but still high, the weekly demand for regular and extended… Continue Reading
Speech by Governor Tarullo on international cooperation in financial regulation
Governor Daniel K. Tarullo At the Cornell International Law Journal Symposium: The Changing Politics of Central Banks, New York, New York – February 22, 2013 – International Cooperation in Financial Regulation Next month marks the fifth anniversary of the failure of Bear Stearns–in retrospect, the beginning of the most acute phase of the financial crisis.… Continue Reading
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, January 29-30, 2013
“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on January 29-30, 2013. The minutes for each regularly scheduled meeting of the Committee ordinarily are made available three weeks after the day of the policy decision and subsequently are published in the Board’s… Continue Reading
Gov on the Go – Boosting Public Sector Productivity by Going Mobile
Deloitte University Press – Gov on the Go, Boosting Public Sector Productivity by Going Mobile “Mobile technology, a very powerful productivity booster, offers the public sector a chance to hit the reset button. It can not only improve internal communications and access to information within public agencies, but also enable the government to fully redesign… Continue Reading
