Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
News release: “The U.S. Treasury Department announced details this week of a $14.77 billion investment in 43 banks made through its Capital Purchase Program. Treasury created the Capital Purchase Program, a part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, to help to stabilize and strengthen the U.S. financial system. Treasury allocated $250 billion under TARP’s Capital …
OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet (01/13/2009): Based on projections from the EIA January 2009 Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $387 billion of net oil export revenues in 2009 and $526 billion in 2010. Last year, OPEC earned $972 billion in net oil export revenues, …
The Role of the 25 Percent Revenue Offset in Estimating the Budgetary Effects of Legislation, January 13, 2009, Economic and Budget Issue Brief. “When excise taxes, customs duties, and other types of indirect taxes are imposed on goods and services, they tend to reduce income for workers or business owners in the taxed industry and …
A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis: The Bailout by WallStats.com: “What do you do if you dont have the money to pay a debt? If you are like most of us, you borrow. The US Government is no different. In order to pay for the $700 billion bailout, it will have to borrow more …
News release: “The Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) announced today that it has released its Report to the President for Fiscal Year 2008. The Report profiles data about the Government-wide security classification program during Fiscal Year 2008.”
Stalking Victimization in the United States (NCJ 224527), January 13, 2009, by BJS statisticians Katrina Baum, Shannan Catalano, Michael Rand, and Kristina Rose of the National Institute of Justice. “An estimated 3.4 million persons identified themselves as victims of stalking during a 12-month period in 2005 and 2006, the U.S. Department of Justices Bureau of …
An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring and Other Improper Personnel Actions in the Civil Rights Division, July 2, 2008 (Released Publicly January 13, 2009) “The evidence in our investigation showed that Schlozman, first as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and subsequently as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General, considered political …
White House – Troubled Assets Relief Program Section 115 Plan to Exercise Authority, January 12, 2009: This report to the Congress is submitted in accordance with section 115 (a) (3) of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (Act) and serves to notify intent to exercise the authority provided by the Act. Section 115 provides that such …
Inspectors General: Actions Needed to Improve Audit Coverage of NASA, GAO-09-88, December 18, 2008 U.S. Postal Service: Age and Disability in the Executive Service, GAO-09-255R, January 12, 2009 Defense Inventory: Army Needs to Evaluate Impact of Recent Actions to Improve Demand Forecasts for Spare Parts, GAO-09-199, January 12, 2009 Tax Administration: IRS’s 2008 Filing Season …
Integrated Modeling for Integrated Environmental Decision Making White Paper, November 2008 (69 pages, PDF), released January 12, 2009. Background: “Given the complex and multi-dimensional nature of environmental problems, the EPAs original vision was to consider the environment as a single, interrelated system. To achieve its mission of protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment, …
News release: “For the first time in more than 25 years, American adults are reading more literature, according to a new study by the National Endowment for the Arts. Reading on the Rise documents a definitive increase in rates and numbers of American adults who read literature, with the biggest increases among young adults, ages …
FBI – Crime in the United States: Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report: January to June 2008 “Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation reported a decrease of 3.5 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for the first six months of 2008 when compared with …
