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Identity-Related Crime: A Threat Assessment – A Report to the Attorney General of the United States and the Minister of Public Safety of Canada, November 2010 “This threat assessment focuses on five aspects of the identity-related crime problem as it affects Canada and the United States: (1) the scope and extent of the problem; (2) …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via National Journal, “The Transportation Security Administration is working to create an alternative screening process for pilots, the agency’s chief said this morning, amid mounting protests by airline pilots over new airport scanners criticized as invasive and hazardous to health …
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System – The October 2010 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices, November 8, 2010 “The October 2010 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices addressed changes in the supply of, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three …
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Preliminary Assessment of Federal Financial Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via GAO – Risks and Cost Reimbursement and Notification Policies and Procedures, GAO-11-90R, November 12, 2010. “The total cost to clean up this massive and potentially unprecedented spill, the damage to the environment, as well …
“The UNESCO Science Report 2010 is a mirror of the world development of science. It shows how the proliferation of digital information and communication technologies is increasingly changing the global picture,” said the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova. Its objective is to present analysis on the historical sciences industry by region and serve as additional …
Report to the Secretary of Defense, Assessing DoDs Study Information Gap: Optimizing the Electronic Management of DoD-Related Studies. Report FY10-09. Recommendations for a Comprehensive Knowledge Management System for DoD Officials that Facilitate Information Retrieval and Analysis of all DoD-funded and DoD-related studies, April 2010. “The number of and amount spent on studies each year within …
News release: “The median age at first marriage increased to 28.2 for men and 26.1 for women in 2010, an increase from 26.8 and 25.1 in 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This increase is a continuation of a long-term trend that has been noted since the mid-1950s. In addition, the overall percentage of …
Central bankers analyse market structure developments in the clearing industry and the implications for financial stability, 10 November 2010 In a report published today by the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS), central bankers examine developments in the clearing industry’s market structure, their drivers and the implications for financial stability. The report, Market structure …
“A new online resource from the Federal Reserve provides practical answers to questions about credit reports, credit scores, and the importance of protecting personal credit histories. The Consumer’s Guide to Credit Reports and Credit Scores describes the content of a credit report, explains how a credit score is used, and discusses the role of credit …
Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin At the National Consumer Law Center’s Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 12, 2010: Problems in the Mortgage Servicing Industry “The number of foreclosures initiated on residential properties has soared from about one million in 2006, the year that house prices peaked, to 2.8 million last year. There were 1.2 …
Governor Daniel K. Tarullo At the George Washington University Center for Law, Economics, and Finance Conference on the Dodd-Frank Act, Washington, D.C., November 12, 2010 – Next Steps in Financial Regulatory Reform: “The financial crisis showed that the concentrated, almost all-consuming regulatory focus on refining bank capital requirements in Basel II had come at the …
“Google commissioned The Boston Consulting Group to produce an independent analysis of the value of the UKs Internet economy, the factors that are driving this, how we compare to other countries, and how this will change in the future. Google wants to help UK businesses get online and use the Internet to grow and have …
