Category «Economy»

Acquisition Reform in the FY2016 – FY2018 National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAAs)

CRS report via FAS – Acquisition Reform in the FY2016-FY2018 National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAAs) Moshe Schwartz, Specialist in Defense Acquisition. January 4, 2018″Congress has long been interested in defense acquisition and generally exercises its legislative powers to affect defense acquisitions through Title VIII of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), entitled Acquisition Policy, Acquisition …

Subjects: Congress, Defense, Economy, Government Documents, Legislation

NY Fed – An Index of Treasury Market Liquidity: 1991-2017

An Index of Treasury Market Liquidity: 1991-2017. November 2017 Number 827. Authors: Tobias Adrian, Michael Fleming “Order book and transactions data from the U.S. Treasury securities market are used to calculate daily measures of bid-ask spreads, depth, and price impact for a twenty-six-year sample period (1991-2017). From these measures, a daily index of Treasury market …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

NYT – The Case for the Subway – It built the city of New York. The city must rebuild it to survive.

The New York Times Magazine, Jonathan Mahler: “…As New York evolved over the decades, the subway was the one constant, the very thing that made it possible to repurpose 19th-century factories and warehouses as offices or condominiums, or to reimagine a two-mile spit of land between Manhattan and Queens that once housed a smallpox hospital …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Transportation

Coin Center – leading non-profit focused on policy issues facing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin

“Based in Washington, D.C., Coin Center is the leading non-profit research and advocacy center focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency and decentralized computing technologies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our mission is to build a better understanding of these technologies and to promote a regulatory climate that preserves the freedom to innovate using permissionless …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

Jeremy Siegel: What’s Ahead for the U.S. Economy in 2018

Wharton Podcast: “It was an unexpectedly stellar year for U.S. stock markets in 2017 – up about 24% thanks to a stronger economy, falling unemployment and expected tax breaks for companies that finally materialized at the last hour. According to Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel, since most of the good news has been baked into …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Crain’s – Trump administration kills Gateway tunnel deal

Feds declare agreement to share massive project’s costs with NY and NJ “nonexistent” – “President Donald Trump dropped his own New Year’s ball—in the form of a wrecking ball—with a late Friday afternoon announcement that effectively wipes out plans for perhaps the nation’s most crucial infrastructure project. The president officially scrapped his predecessor’s proposal to …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Transportation

Financial Stability Oversight Council: Structure and Activities

CRS report via FAS – Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC): Structure and Activities. Jeffrey M. Stupak, Analyst in Macroeconomic Policy. December 22, 2017. Summary: “The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) and its Office of Financial Research (OFR) were established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (P.L. 111- 203) to address several …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

New Website on US Cryptocurrency Law

Bitcoin.com: “Bitcoinlawhub.com is a newly launched site [by attorneys Dave and Susan Berson] that lives up to its name. It provides a repository where US citizens can access a wealth of resources pertaining to digital currencies. If you’ve ever wondered how anti-money laundering laws affect bitcoin ATMS, or how bitcoin fits into estate planning, you’ll find …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

How the Trump era is changing the federal bureaucracy

The Washington Post: “Nearly a year into his takeover of Washington, President Trump has made a significant down payment on his campaign pledge to shrink the federal bureaucracy, a shift long sought by conservatives that could eventually bring the workforce down to levels not seen in decades. By the end of September, all Cabinet departments …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

16 major environmental protections cut in 2017

Elizabeth Shogren – High Country News: “President Donald Trump has spent the past year steadily undoing Obama-era environmental protections, especially rules designed to fight climate change. By law, agencies must go through a lengthy process to rescind or rewrite many rules, but executive orders and other policies are easier to erase. Some of the rollbacks …

Subjects: Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents

Highest Paid CEOs in 2017

24/7 Wall St: “…The typical CEO of such a company earns $11 million a year — nearly 200 times the $57,617 the typical American household earns a year. The stark difference in compensation only appears to be growing wider. CEO pay increased by 6% in 2016, compared to a 3% increase in earnings for the …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

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