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The global financial cycle and how to tame it – Panel remarks by Hervé Hannoun, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the International Symposium of the Banque de France “Central banking: the way forward?”, Paris, 7 November 2014 “My four comments today will cover national and global financial cycles; the excess elasticity of the international monetary …
FINANCIAL AUDIT: Office of Financial Stability (Troubled Asset Relief Program) Fiscal Years 2014 and 2013 Financial Statements, GAO-15-132R: Published: Nov 7, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 7, 2014. MILITARY AND VETERAN SUPPORT:DOD and VA Programs That Address the Effects of Combat and Transition to Civilian Life, GAO-15-24: Published: Nov 7, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 7, 2014. WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM: Certifier Oversight …
“With a thriving tech economy, ballooning valuations and an IPO market humming at a level unseen since the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, headlines have lately, inevitably been raising the specter of another tech bubble — and asking whether a corresponding collapse is at hand. The answer, according to technology leaders, is a resounding …
Conti-Brown, Peter, The Institutions of Federal Reserve Independence (October 2014). Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming; Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 139. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2275759 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2275759 “The Federal Reserve System has come to occupy center stage in the formulation and implementation of national and global economic …
“From Ghana to Germany, South Africa to Spain, the gap between rich and poor is rapidly increasing, and economic inequality has reached extreme levels. In South Africa, inequality is greater today than at the end of Apartheid.The consequences are corrosive for everyone. Extreme inequality corrupts politics, hinders economic growth and stifles social mobility. It fuels crime …
“The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has launched a new and improved version of its digital library of economic, financial and banking materials and has also made its content available to a broader audience through inclusion in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) turned 10 years …
“The United Kingdom National Accounts Blue Book was first published in August 1952 and presents a full set of economic accounts (National Accounts) for the United Kingdom. These accounts are compiled by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). They record and describe economic activity in the UK and as such are used to support the …
White House: “Here to help you make smart personal financial decisions and protect your hard-earned income. Including: College Scorecard; Savings Planner; Sales Tax Deduction Calculator; Free File; College Budget Calculator; Mortgage Payment Reduction Estimator; Finding a Housing Counselor; Student Loan Repayment Calculator.
Ruy Teixeira & John Halpin | Thursday, November 6, 2014 – Center for American Progress “American voters remain deeply pessimistic about their own economic prospects and those of the country as a whole and distrust all major institutions of government, including the president, Congress, and both major political parties. As a result, the 2014 elections …
Northeastern University: “Internet users regularly receive all kinds of personalized content, from Google search results to product recommendations on Amazon. This is thanks to the complex algorithms that produce results based on users’ profiles and past activity. It’s Big Data at work, and it’s often advantageous for users. But such personalization can also be a …
Speech – Governor Jerome H. Powell At the “The New International Financial System: Analyzing the Cumulative Impact of Regulatory Reform”, 17th Annual International Banking Conference, Chicago, Illinois. November 6, 2014. “Prior to the crisis, the then highly opaque market for OTC derivatives grew at an astonishing and unsustainable pace of nearly 25 percent per annum in a …
“Technological innovation has been changing the jobs people do, and the way they do them, at least since the first spinning jennies went into service in England’s textile industry in the 1760s. And for about as long, people have sought to forecast what new technologies might mean for the world of work — predictions that tend …
