Category «Economy»

Federal Reserve Board releases info on Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee

“The Federal Reserve Board on [April 17, 2015] released additional information on the operating structure of the Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee (LISCC) supervisory program. The attached memorandum supplements previously released information regarding the LISCC and provides additional details on the program’s organizational structure, including the functions of its subcommittees. The LISCC program was established …

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

The Global Findex Database 2014 Measuring Financial Inclusion around the World

The Global Findex Database 2014 Measuring Financial Inclusion around the World. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7255. Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, and Peter Van Oudheusden. April 15, 2015. “The Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database, launched by the World Bank in 2011, provides comparable indicators showing how people around the world save, …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

SEC Staff and FINRA Issue Report on National Senior Investor Initiative

“With the Social Security Administration estimating that each day for the next 15 years, an average of 10,000 Americans will turn 65, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued a report to help broker-dealers assess, craft, or refine their policies and procedures for investors …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Securities Law

The Quadrennial Energy Review

Transforming U.S. Energy Infrastructures in a Time of Rapid Change: The First Installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review “On January 9, 2014, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the administration to conduct a Quadrennial Energy Review (QER). As described in the President’s Climate Action Plan,this first-ever review focuses on energy infrastructure and identifies the threats, risks, and opportunities …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, Economy, Energy, Government Documents

Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: data sources and statistical methodologies

Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: data sources and statistical methodologies IFC Bulletin No 39 April 2015 – 837 pages PDF. Papers in this volume were prepared for the Seventh IFC Conference held in Basel on 4-5 September 2014. Table of Contents as follows: Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: overview of …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

SEC Implements Dodd-Frank Reporting and Dissemination Rules for Security-Based Swaps

SEC Implements Dodd-Frank Reporting and Dissemination Rules for Security-Based Swaps Posted by Kobi Kastiel, Co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Sunday, April 19, 2015 [The following post comes to us from Arthur S. Long, partner in the Financial Institutions and Securities Regulation practice groups at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and …

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

SV150: Current tech boom is no dot-com bubble, experts say

Silicon Valley’s top public tech companies ranked, in everything from sales to taxes paid. (Dollar figures in millions.) By Daniel J. Willis, Jeremy C. Owens and Jack Davis / Bay Area News Group – Searchable Database. Patrick May – Mercury News – “Silicon Valley’s tech cup runneth over. Job growth is humming, coders are being …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

NOAA – Status of US Fishing Stocks 2014

Overfishing and Overfished Numbers Hit All-Time Lows – “As a result of the combined efforts of NOAA Fisheries, the regional fishery management councils, and all our partners, the number of stocks listed as subject to overfishing or overfished continues to decline and is at an all-time low. Status of Stocks 2014 Report Press release Additional …

Subjects: Economy, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents

State Government Tax Revenue Rises for Fourth Year in a Row

“State government tax revenue increased 2.2 percent, from $847.1 billion in fiscal year 2013 to $865.8 billion in 2014, the fourth consecutive increase, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections. General sales and gross receipts taxes drove most of the revenue growth, increasing from $258.9 billion to $271.3 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Research Shows Financial Success Starts Early

Louisa Quittman is the Director of the Office of Financial Education at the U.S. Treasury Department 4/16/2015 – “As part of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission’s (Commission) efforts to share information and research that can help prepare young people for their financial lives, we recently worked with the Journal of Consumer Affairs to solicit …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

The Role of Policy in Achieving Shared, Sustainable Economic Prosperity

“GrowthPolicy.org pulls together recent research by Harvard faculty about economic growth. Our goal is to disseminate Harvard research to a broad audience in order to inform debate about the role of policy in achieving stability in our financial systems and shared, sustainable economic prosperity. GrowthPolicy.org is a project of: The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Boomer Expectations for Retirement 2015

Fifth Annual Update on the Retirement Preparedness of the Boomer Generation April 2015 – Insured Retirement Institute “Boomer Expectations for Retirement 2015 – Each year the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) conducts a survey to measure the retirement preparedness of the Boomer generation. This report, the fifth in the series, summarizes the results of the 2015 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

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