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Unclassified: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Data Mining Report, 15 February 2008. “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is pleased to provide to the Congress this report pursuant to Section 804 of the Implementing the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, entitled The Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting …
News release: “Senior financial supervisors from five countries today issued a report that assesses a range of risk management practices among a sample of major global financial services organizations. This report Observations on Risk Management Practices during the Recent Market Turbulence summarizes a joint review that supervisors initiated this past autumn. The seven …
Executive Order Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells, March 9, 2009. “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Research involving human embryonic stem cells and human non-embryonic stem cells …
News release: “Hispanic students comprised 12 percent of full-time college students (both undergraduate and graduate students) in 2007, up from 10 percent in 2006, according to U.S. Census Bureau tables released today. Hispanics comprise 15 percent of the nations total population. School Enrollment in the United States: 2007 contains eight detailed tables based on statistics …
Your Bank Has Failed: What Happens Next? – “What would happen if your local bank failed? Scott Pelley and “60 Minutes” were given extraordinary access, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation moves in to take over a failed bank in Chicago.” “EDIE the Estimator can calculate your FDIC insurance coverage for each FDIC-insured bank where …
Doing Business in China – 2009 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies, U.S. Department of State. “…China is still a developing country, albeit one with vast potential. Spread over a population of 1.3 billion, Chinas colossal economy does not represent a large amount of disposable income for each person. Annual per capita income in China …
Transcript – Obama Radio Address, Saturday, March 7, 2009: “My administration inherited a $1.3 trillion budget deficit, the largest in history. And we’ve inherited a budgeting process as irresponsible as it is unsustainable. For years, as Wall Street used accounting tricks to conceal costs and avoid responsibility, Washington did, too…For the first time in many …
Information Technology: Census Bureau Needs to Strengthen Testing of 2010 Decennial Systems, GAO-09-413T, March 05, 2009 2010 Census: Fundamental Building Blocks of a Successful Enumeration Face Challenges, GAO-09-430T, March 05, 2009 Influenza Pandemic: Sustaining Focus on the Nation’s Planning and Preparedness Efforts, GAO-09-334, February 26, 2009
Employment Situation Summary: “Nonfarm payroll employment continued to fall sharply in February (-651,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 7.6 to 8.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Payroll employment has declined by 2.6 million in the past 4 months. In February, job losses were large and …
Who Regulates Whom? An Overview of U.S. Financial Supervision, February 24, 2009 “Federal financial regulation in the United States has evolved through a series of piecemeal responses to developments and crises in the markets. This report provides an overview of current U.S. financial regulation: which agencies are responsible for which institutions and markets, and what …
“March 6, 2009, the Congressional Oversight Panel released its March Oversight Report, The Foreclosure Crisis: Working Toward a Solution. “Like the crisis in the banking system, the foreclosure problem has grown so large that it threatens the entire economy. Foreclosures are depressing housing and commercial real estate prices throughout the country, imposing costs on those …
US Courts: “Bankruptcy filings in the federal courts rose 31 percent in calendar year 2008, according to data released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The number of bankruptcies filed in the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2008, totaled 1,117,771, up from 850,912 bankruptcies filed in CY 2007. Filings have grown since …
