News release: “The International Competition Network (ICN) launched initiatives on the investigative process in competition cases, international enforcement cooperation, and working with the courts, the Federal Trade Commission announced today. The ICN also adopted new materials on unilateral conduct investigations, raising anti-cartel awareness, and explaining the benefits of competition, and presented four new teaching modules… Continue Reading
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Report – Worlds Richest Worth $1 Trillion on Billionaire List
“The 40 richest individuals on Earth lost a combined $6.2 billion yesterday as stocks dropped amid disappointing U.S. earnings, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the wealthiest people.” Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Federal Telework, Financial Audit, Tax Gap, Workplace Safety and Health
Federal Telework – Program Measurement Continues to Confront Data Reliability Issues, GAO-12-519, Apr 19, 2012 Financial Audit – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Funds’ 2011 and 2010 Financial Statements, GAO-12-416, Apr 19, 2012 Tax Gap – Sources of Noncompliance and Strategies to Reduce It, GAO-12-651T, Apr 19, 2012 Workplace Safety and Health – Multiple Challenges Lengthen… Continue Reading
Report – Afghanistan: The Uncertain Economics of Transition
Afghanistan: The Uncertain Economics of Transition by Anthony H. Cordesman, First Working Draft: April 18, 2012 “The economics of Afghanistan are only one aspect of the challenges posed by US, allied, and Afghan efforts to accomplish a successful Transition. There are many reasons that Transition will either fail or be determined by Afghanistans internal dynamics… Continue Reading
Report – Risk, Opportunity, and the Next Administration
2012 Global Forecast – Risk, Opportunity, and the Next Administration – by Craig Cohen, Josiane Gabel “What the reader will find here in the 2012 iteration of Global Forecast is an effort to look ahead after Novembers elections to predict what will be the main risks and opportunities facing the next administration, whether a second… Continue Reading
TRAC – White Collar Crime Prosecutions for January 2012
“The latest available data from the Justice Department show that in January 2012 the federal government prosecuted 546 individuals in white collar crime cases, down 13 percent from the previous month and down over 40 percent since August 2011, when there were 930 such prosecutions reported. A significant portion of this drop can be attributed… Continue Reading
TRAC – ICE Prosecutorial Discretion Initiative: Latest Figures
“A prosecutorial discretion initiative by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has resulted in the closure of a total of 2,609 Immigration Court cases, according to the latest data obtained and analyzed by TRAC, current through the end of March. This is less than one percent of the 298,173 cases pending before the Immigration Courts at… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve: Volcker Rule Conformance Period Clarified
News release: “As more fully explained in this statement, the Board confirms that banking entities by statute have two years from July 21, 2012, to conform all of their activities and investments to section 619 [Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or the so-called Volcker Rule], unless that period is extended by the… Continue Reading
New Publication Shines Spotlight On Global Inequality Debate
World Bank Introduction to the Inequality in Focus Series , April 2012: “The world has become considerably less poor in the past three decades. In 1981, almost three fourths of citizens in the developing world lived on less than $2 a day. This rate has dropped dramatically so now 43 percent are poor. Moreover, despite… Continue Reading
World Bank – Measuring financial inclusion: the Global Findex Database
Measuring financial inclusion: the Global Findex Database, April 2012 – “This paper provides the first analysis of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database, a new set of indicators that measure how adults in 148 economies save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. The data show that 50 percent of adults worldwide have an account… Continue Reading
UK Report – Preese Hall Shale Gas Fracturing review & recommendations for induced seismic mitigation
UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC): “A panel of independent experts have reported to DECC on the causation of the seismic events experienced in the Blackpool area last year during hydraulic fracturing operations at Preese Hall, and have made recommendations to mitigate the risks of similar events in future fracturing operations. The report:… Continue Reading
Pew Report – 72% of Americans follow local news closely
72% of Americans follow local news closely, by Carolyn Miller, Kristen Purcell, Tom Rosenstiel, Apr 12, 2012 “Nearly three quarters (72%) of adults are quite attached to following local news and information, and local newspapers are by far the source they rely on for much of the local information they need. In fact, local news… Continue Reading
