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WSJ (no fee) – Why Libraries Are Back in Style: “In the latest annual National Association of Home Builders consumer survey, 63% of home buyers said they wanted a library or considered one essential, a percentage that has been edging up for the past few years. Many mass-market home builders are including libraries in their …
Giving a Voice to Open Source Stakeholders: A Survey of State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement, Majority Staff Report, September 2008. “Open source intelligence products can and should be shared with appropriate Federal, State, local and tribal law enforcement, and the private sector because of their unclassified nature. Unfortunately, DHS has not effectively exploited this …
Mineral Revenues: Data Management Problems and Reliance on Self-Reported Data for Compliance Efforts Put MMS Royalty Collections at Risk, GAO-08-893R, September 12, 2008 Federal Courthouse Construction: Estimated Costs to House the L.A. District Court Have Tripled and There Is No Consensus on How to Proceed, GAO-08-889, September 12, 2008 Oil and Gas Royalties: The Federal …
Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power – The Strategic Consequences of American Indebtedness, Brad W. Setser, Fellow for Geoeconomics, Council on Foreign Relations Press, September 2008 “The problems associated with U.S. indebtedness cannot be addressed overnight. But the report proposes ways for the United States to guard against the effects of a disruption in foreign financing, …
Finance leaders seek to extend wind, solar, other incentives America’s energy, economic future: “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today unveiled energy tax legislation that they intend to bring to the Senate for consideration this month. The Finance tax measures seek to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil …
DOJ Fact Sheet: Justice Department Counter-Terrorism Efforts Since 9/11, September 11, 2008 “Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the highest priority of the Justice Department has been to protect America against acts of terrorism. Despite repeated and sustained efforts by terrorists, there has not been another terrorist attack on American soil in the past …
OIG-08-89 – Letter Report: DHS Compliance with Prepackaged News Prohibition (PDF, 10 pages) OIG-08-88 – Hurricane Katrina Temporary Housing Technical Assistance Contracts (PDF, 29 pages)
Securing Pakistan’s Tribal Belt, by Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations Press, July/August 2008 “What is at stake is considerable by any measure. Pakistan is the worlds second-most-populous Muslim-majority country, with nearly 170 million people. It shares borders with Afghanistan, where U.S. and allied forces are struggling …
News release: “At a Thursday hearing entitled, Dividend Tax Abuse: How Offshore Entities Dodge Taxes on U.S. Stock Dividends, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will examine how some financial institutions have designed, marketed, and implemented transactions to enable foreign taxpayers, including offshore hedge funds, to dodge millions of dollars of taxes on U.S. stock …
Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Donald L. Kohn – Comments on Financial Regulation in a System Context, Beyond Leveraged Losses: The Balance Sheet Effects of the Home Price Downturn, and The Central Role of House Prices in the Financial Crisis: How Will the Market Clear? At the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Washington, D.C. September …
Dually Entitled Beneficiaries who are Subject to Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision, A-09-07-27010, September 10, 2008. “The Social Security Act includes two provisions that reduce Social Security monthly benefits paid to individuals who receive a pension based on Federal, State, or local government employment that was not covered by Social Security. The …
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Staff Report on Commodity Swap Dealers & Index Traders with Commission Recommendations, September 2008 “Major changes in the composition of futures market participants have developed over the last 20 years. Specifically, there has been an influx of new traders into the market commodity index traders (including pension and endowment funds) …
