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News release: “The SEC’s entire budget allocation is a disproportionately small amount in comparison to the agency’s mission. With often less than $900 million in hand and approximately 3,500 staff, the SEC is tasked with regulating tens of thousands of entities including public companies, investment advisers, broker-dealers, transfer agents, exchanges, credit rating agencies, and several …
News release: “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it has launched, on a six-month trial basis, a new monthly report: This Month in Futures Markets. The report, produced by the Commissions Office of the Chief Economist, will add transparency to the information the Commission provides the public concerning regulated futures markets by providing …
Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program – Back Issues available from 1996-2008, HTML Version (and PDF from 2001). Note – the Federal Depository Library Program website is now located as follows: “The FDLP Desktop serves as a centralized resource for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), which disseminates U.S. Government information to the American …
Via State Department: Background Information – Articles and Publications Lincoln: A Legacy of Freedom – U.S. Department of State, International Information Programs A New Look for Lincoln – U.S. Dept. of State, IIP Groundwork to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln to 1854 – U.S. Department of State, IIP Path to the White House: Abraham Lincoln from 1854 …
AP: “California’s first-ever furloughs began Friday with more than 200,000 state workers expected to stay home without pay amid the state’s fiscal crisis.” State of California Fact Sheet: What Californians Are Saying About Furloughs Related postings on financial system
“The Bureau of Economics has released an Economic Issues Paper that studies the treatment of efficiencies in FTC merger matters. It is available on the Commissions Web site. The paper was undertaken to determine the types of efficiencies claims made by parties in merger matters before the Commission. Further work explored how the staff treated …
“COP is releasing its latest oversight report today entitled Valuing Treasurys Acquisitions. This report is our own attempt to answer the fifth question in our first oversight report: Is the Public Receiving a Fair Deal? After reviewing the top ten TARP transactions, we learned that every time Treasury spent $100, it took back assets that …
News release [includes data and charts]: “Nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply in January (-598,000) and the unemployment rate rose from 7.2 to 7.6 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Payroll employment has declined by 3.6 million since the start of the recession in December 2007; about one- …
Remarks by the President on the Establishment of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board [names included in this link], February 6, 2009: “…I created this board to enlist voices to come from beyond the Washington echo chamber, to ensure that no stone is unturned as we work to put people back to work and get our …
“GPOs Federal Digital System (FDsys) is an advanced digital system that will enable GPO to manage Government information in a digital form. FDsys will enable GPO to manage information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. As a state-of-the-art digital content management system, FDsys will contain information gathered through three methods: Files submitted by …
News release [includes data charts]: Unemployment rates were higher in December than a year earlier in 363 of the 369 metropolitan areas, lower in 5 areas, and unchanged in 1 area, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Forty areas recorded jobless rates of at least 10.0 percent, while …
“Pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program [SIGTARP] must report to Congress on its oversight activities and compile certain specified data and information about the operation of TARP. SIGTARPs reports to Congress are due 60 days after confirmation of the …
