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07/18/2008 OFHEO Working Paper 08-2 Enterprise Credit Default Swaps and Market Discipline: Preliminary Analysis: “Financial regulators are interested in harnessing market information and market discipline to improve the supervision and performance of financial institutions. Recent growth in the market for credit default swaps (CDS), derivative instruments that allow for the trading of credit risk, presents …
News release: “The WTO, on 18 July 2008, issued the reports of the panel that had examined, respectively, complaints by the European Communities, the United States and Canada regarding China Measures Affecting Imports Of Automobile Parts (DS339, DS340 and DS342).” Related news release: “U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab announced today that the first …
Additions to Capacity on the U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Network: 2007 (07/17/2008): “This report examines new natural gas pipeline capacity added to the U.S. natural gas pipeline system during 2007 and the areas of the country where those additions were concentrated. In addition, it discusses and analyzes proposed natural gas pipeline projects that may be …
News release: “An investigation by the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has found that members of government at the highest levels, including the office of President George W. Bushs Chief of Staff and numerous heads of Cabinet departments, had decided to use the Clean Air Act to regulate global warming emissions not …
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) has voluntarily registered its common stock under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and is now subject to the Act’s periodic and current reporting requirements. By voluntarily becoming a reporting company, Freddie Mac has publicly disclosed, and …
Air Traffic Control: FAA Uses Earned Value Techniques to Help Manage Information Technology Acquisitions, but Needs to Clarify Policy and Strengthen Oversight, GAO-08-756, July 18, 2008 Food Insecurity Persists in Sub-Saharan Africa despite Efforts to Halve Hunger by 2015, GAO-08-1007R, July 17, 2008 Hurricane Katrina: Trends in the Operating Results of Five Hospitals in New …
CNN: “Gore called on the country to produce all of its electricity from renewable and carbon-free sources in 10 years, a goal he compared to President Kennedy’s challenge for the country to put a man on the moon in the 1960s.” A Generational Challenge to Repower America (as prepared) D.A.R. Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., July …
D-2008-110 The Cost, Oversight, and Impact of Congressional Earmarks Less Than $15 Million, July 11, 2008 (Project No. D2007-D000FP-0254.002)
News release: “This years World Trade Report 2008, entitled Trade in a Globalizing World, is devoted to an examination of the gains from international trade and the challenges arising from higher levels of integration. Over many years, governments in most countries have increasingly opened their economies to international trade, whether through multilateral trade negotiations, increased …
Department of Energy Office of Inspector General, Audit Report, Nuclear Weapons Programs Heavy Water Inventory, Declassified, July 15, 2008.
The Overuse, Underuse, and Misuse of Health Care. Testimony before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, July 17, 2008. “The most important factor influencing the federal governments long-term fiscal balance is the rate of growth in health care costs. CBO projects that, without any changes in federal law, total spending on health care will …
How Changes in the Value of the Chinese Currency Affect U.S. Imports, July 2008 07-17-ChinaTrade.pdf AppendixA.pdf AppendixB.pdf
