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Alcohol and Crime: Data from 2002 to 2008, Michael R. Rand, William J. Sabol, Michael Sinclair, Howard Snyder, September 3, 2010 “This webpage includes analyses from four data sources: the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities (SISFCF), and the Survey …
Gulf of Mexico Fact Sheet Sep 1, 2010: “This fact sheet contains current annual production data for oil and natural gas from the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane season outlook, and the current tropical weather outlook from the National Hurricane Center.”
News release: “The nation’s 89,526 state and local governments employed 16.6 million full-time equivalent employees in 2009, statistically unchanged from 2008, according to government employment data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Part-time employees numbered 4.7 million, not statistically different from 2008. Local governments accounted for 12.2 million full-time equivalent employees, and state governments had …
Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices 2010, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, August 2010 “The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) conducted its 16th annual underwriting survey to identify trends in lending standards and credit risk for the most common types of commercial and retail credit offered by national banks. The survey …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Causes of the Recent Financial and Economic Crisis Before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, hearing, Too Big to Fail: Expectations and Impact of Extraordinary Government Intervention and the role of Systemic Risk in the Financial Crisis, Washington, D.C., September 2, 2010 “If the crisis has a single lesson, it is that …
News release:” The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has adopted a temporary rule requiring municipal advisors to register with the SEC by October 1, a deadline established by the newly-enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Municipal advisors provide advice to state and local governments and other borrowers involved in …
Preliminary Staff Report, Governmental Rescues of ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’ Financial Institutions, August 31, 2010 “The purpose of this preliminary staff report is to describe governmental rescues of financial institutions during the decades leading up to the financial crisis and during the crisis itself. Section I provides an executive summary of the report. Section II describes how federal …
InformationWeek: “Agencies that deal with disaster-management are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Earl, as the U.S. braces for another storm season. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has updated the homepage of its website with a Hurricane Earl Response tab, which includes a link to the National Weather Service’s hurricane watches and warnings map. FEMA …
Pipeline Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Help Strengthen Security, but Could Improve Priority-Setting and Assessment Processes, GAO-10-867, August 04, 2010 “The United States depends on avast network of pipelines to transport energy. GAO was asked to review the Transportation Security Administrations (TSA) efforts to help ensure pipeline security. This report addresses the extent to …
2009 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, Office of Immigration Statistics, Homeland Security, August 2010 “Statistical data on immigration have been published annually by the U.S. government since the 1890s. Over the years, the federal agencies responsible for reporting on immigration have changed, as have the content, format, and title of the annual publication. Currently, immigration data …
President Obamas Address on Iraq…the text, as prepared for delivery, of President Obamas address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night, provided by the White House: “The Americans who have served in Iraq completed every mission they were given. They defeated a regime that had terrorized its people. Together with Iraqis and coalition partners who …
News release: “Commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported an aggregate profit of $21.6 billion in the second quarter of 2010, a $26 billion improvement from the $4.4 billion net loss the industry posted in the second quarter of 2009. This is the highest quarterly earnings total since …
