The US Cost of the Afghan War: FY2002-FY2013: Cost in Military Operating Expenditures and Aid, and Prospects for Transition. May 14, 2012, by Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic & International Studies This report “addresses the fiscal cost to the US of the Afghan War from FY2000-FY2013. It provides estimates of total cost, cost to… Continue Reading
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The Challenge of Individual Income Tax Reform: An Economic Analysis of Tax Base Broadening
CRS – The Challenge of Individual Income Tax Reform: An Economic Analysis of Tax Base Broadening. Jane G. Gravelle, Senior Specialist in Economic Policy, Thomas L. Hungerford, Specialist in Public Finance. March 22, 2012 “There are over 200 separate tax expenditures, which are projected to total over $1.1 trillion in FY2014. The revenue loss of… Continue Reading
Designating Systemically Important Financial Institutions: Balancing Costs and Benefits
Designating Systemically Important Financial Institutions: Balancing Costs and Benefits, Testimony before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Douglas J. Elliott, Fellow in Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution “In Dodd-Frank, Congress wisely gave regulators a wider mandate to oversee systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). These institutions are the ones most capable… Continue Reading
Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies – 13th Annual Retirement
News release: “American workers, shaken by the realities of the Great Recession, have adjusted their visions of retirement according to the 13th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey released today by the non‐profit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies ® (The Center). The Center surveyed more than 3,600 American workers and found that the majority of workers plan… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Foreign Account Reporting Requirements, Federal Housing Finance Agency
Foreign Account Reporting Requirements – IRS Needs to Further Develop Risk, Compliance, and Cost Plans, GAO-12-484, Apr 16, 2012 Management Report – Opportunities for Improvement in the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Internal Controls, GAO-12-499R, May 16, 2012 Continue Reading
Google Introduces Introducing the Knowledge Graph
Google Official Blog: “The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows aboutlandmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and moreand instantly get information thats relevant to your query. This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search,… Continue Reading
Treasury – How Refinancing Can Help Families
“Today, millions of Americans who are current on their mortgage payments cannot refinance at historically-low interest rates. The President is proposing legislation that would allow more homeowners to refinance. Under the Presidents plan, they would have two refinancing options. Check out what those options are in this infographic, by Jenni LeCompte Related postings on the… Continue Reading
EPA Flow Chart – Cheat Sheet for Agency Twitter Responses
Should I Respond Online On EPAs Behalf? – Questions to guide my decision Use with Representing EPA Online Using Social Media Procedure Continue Reading
A Future Without Key Social and Economic Statistics for the Country
United States Census Directors Blog: “Our country faces important Federal funding challenges linked to the current recession and its aftermath. On the Census Bureaus part, we have been striving to cut administrative costs, reengineer our survey processes, and find innovative ways to squeeze every cent of taxpayer money we get…It is also my duty to… Continue Reading
CRS – Medicare: History of Insolvency Projections
Medicare: History of Insolvency Projections, Patricia A. Davis, Specialist in Health Care Financing. May 11, 2012. By the same author, see also Medicare Financing, May 11, 2012 “Medicare is the nations health insurance program for persons age 65 and older and certain disabled persons. Medicare consists of four distinct parts: Part A (Hospital Insurance, or… Continue Reading
NY Fed: Shadow Banking Regulation
Shadow Banking Regulation. Tobias Adrian and Adam B. Ashcraft, April 2012, Number 559 “Shadow banks conduct credit intermediation without direct, explicit access to public sources of liquidity and credit guarantees. Shadow banks contributed to the credit boom in the early 2000s and collapsed during the financial crisis of 2007-09. We review the rapidly growing literature… Continue Reading
Airport Insecurity: TSAs Failure to Cost-Effectively Procure, Deploy and Warehouse its Screening Technologies
Airport Insecurity: TSAs Failure to Cost-Effectively Procure, Deploy and Warehouse its Screening Technologies – Joint Majority Staff Report, 112th Congress – May 9, 2012 “This report is a critical examination and analysis of TSAs procurement, deployment, and storage of screening technologies. During the past ten years, TSA has struggled to cost-effectively utilize taxpayer funding to… Continue Reading
