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Via LLRX.com – Crowd Funding Resources 2016 – This white paper link dataset compilation by Marcus Zillman focuses on reliable and actionable sources and sites on crowd funding from around the world. For many entrepreneurs in the planning stages or for those already creating startups and seeking to develop monetary sources, crowd funding has become an essential part of …
MIT Technology Review – Jamie Condliffe, October 7, 2016: “Overnight, the British pound dropped by 6 percent, to $1.13. Analysts are pointing the finger at an increasingly familiar financial scapegoat: the algorithm. Though the crash hasn’t yet been definitively linked to algorithmic trading, the Economist argues that the speed of last night’s drop points at software gone haywire. Financial algorithms—or algos to …
“Society at a Glance 2016 says that about 40 million young people in OECD countries, equivalent to 15 per cent of youth aged 15 to 29, are not in education, employment or training, so-called NEETs. Two-thirds of them are not even looking for work. While up to 40% of all youth experience a period of inactivity …
How Big Should the Army Be? Considerations for Congress. Lawrence Kapp, Coordinator, Specialist in Military Manpower Policy; Andrew Feickert, Specialist in Military Ground Forces; Kathleen J. McInnis, Analyst in International Security; Lynn M. Williams, Analyst in U.S. Defense Budget Policy. September 2, 2016. “Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution vests Congress with broad …
A Notice by the Federal Procurement Policy Office on 10/07/2016: “The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing to issue a new OMB Circular, Implementing Category Management for Common Goods and Services, to codify category management, a strategic practice where Federal contracting for common goods and …
Federal Human Resources Data: OPM Should Improve the Availability and Reliability of Payroll Data to Support Accountability and Workforce Analytics, GAO-17-127: Published: Oct 7, 2016. Publicly Released: Oct 7, 2016. “The Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI) payroll data are not fully supporting the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) strategic and open data goals. This is …
Follow up to previous posting – SSRN Acquired by Elsevier – “At the beginning of Summer, we promised to share our evolving technology roadmap. With new resources for design and development, we are reimagining SSRN’s possibilities. First, we implemented our long-awaited full-text search. Now we’re sending a portion of our users to a Beta version of …
Public Relations Spending: Reported Data on Related Federal Activities, GAO-16-877R: Published: Sep 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Oct 5, 2016. “The rise of Facebook, Twitter, and other new platforms has changed the ways in which the federal government communicates with the public. But what is the total scope of federal public relations activities? We found that …
“IMF Sees Subdued Global Growth, Warns Economic Stagnation Could Fuel Protectionist Calls. October 4, 2016. Global growth subpar at 3.1 percent in 2016, with slight increase to 3.4 percent next year Persistent stagnation in advanced economies could further fuel anti-trade sentiment, stifling growth Countries need to rely on all policy levers—monetary, fiscal and structural—to lift …
“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Tuesday posted the public portions of the required “targeted submissions” for the eight systemically important, domestic banking institutions. To foster transparency, the agencies required all of the firms to file a public portion of their targeted submissions. In April of this year, the …
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent and objective oversight authority established under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended: “Though not statutorily required, the OIG compiles annual listings of major management challenges facing …
“The latest update of the Brookings-FT Tiger index presents a picture of general despondency in the global economy that more than offsets isolated signs of strength in some economic indicators in a few countries. Click a country name below the Overall Growth Index to view charts for the main TIGER indexes by country and charts …
