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“Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District – Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and based on information collected on or before October 5, 2015. This document summarizes comments received from businesses and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and is not a commentary on the views of …
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) partners with the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register (OFR) to make every issue of the Federal Register digitally available to the public. A total of 14,587 individual issues, which go back to 1936, will be digitized. GPO employees will hand pack and catalogue every issue. The project …
Via FAS: Office of the Secretary of Defense, February 26, 2015 – Memorandum for Chairman, Defense Science Board / Subject: Final Report of the Defense Science Board 2012 Summer Study on Strategic Surprise “The final report of the Defense Science Board 2014 Summer Study on Strategic Surprise is attached. In accordance with its charter, the …
CRS – Armed Conflict in Syria: Overview and U.S. Response, October 9, 2015” “The rise of the insurgent terrorist group known as the Islamic State (IS, aka the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL/ISIS) and Russia’s military intervention on behalf of the Syrian government have reshaped debates over U.S. policy toward the …
“The Nature Conservancy played a pivotal role in the creation of America’s Watershed Initiative and the initiative’s new Report Card for the 31-state Mississippi River Watershed, which stretches from Montana to West Virginia and from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Water that flows in the heartland rivers within America’s Watershed is used to produce …
CBO Releases Updated Report on the Debt Limit, Posted by Keith Hall on October 14, 2015 “In March, the ceiling on federal debt was reached, and the Secretary of the Treasury announced a “debt issuance suspension period.” During such a period, existing statutes allow the Treasury to take a number of “extraordinary measures” to borrow …
Defense Additive Manufacturing: DOD Needs to Systematically Track Department-wide 3D Printing Efforts, GAO-16-56: Published: Oct 14, 2015. Publicly Released: Oct 14, 2015. Federal Real Property: Performance Goals and Targets Needed to Help Stem GSA’s Reliance on Lease Extensions and Holdovers, GAO-15-741: Published: Sep 30, 2015. Publicly Released: Oct 14, 2015. School Nutrition: USDA Has Efforts …
“Criminal prosecution of corporate violators by the U.S. Department of Justice declined by 29 percent between FY 2004 and FY 2014, despite repeated claims to the contrary by top officials. Meanwhile over the same period, there has been little change in the number of times investigators at the various federal agencies have asked that criminal …
“North Dakota is the most money-savvy state while Mississippi is the least, according to GOBankingRates’ newest study evaluating financial smarts and resource availability of residents in each state. The leading personal finance website investigated all 50 states and the District of Columbia, ranking each on important factors of financial health: residents’ use of banking services, …
New York Times – “Just 158 families, along with companies they own or control, contributed $176 million in the first phase of the campaign.” By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, SARAH COHEN and KAREN YOURISH. OCT. 10, 2015 “They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women, …
The Great Recession’s Impact on School District Finances in New York State, October 2015. New York Fed – Forthcoming. Rajashri Chakrabarti, Max Livingston, and Elizabeth Setren. “A slowly emerging literature explores the effects of the Great Recession on different parts of the economy; however, very little research examines the impact of the Great Recession (or any other recession) …
Bloomberg Quick Take by Yalman Onaran: “Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines “speculation” in 31 words. The key ones are “risk of a large loss.” When Paul Volcker, the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, in January 2009 proposed banning speculation by federally insured banks to reduce risk to the world economy, he did it in one paragraph. Four …
