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Via LLRX.com – How the Hernandez family will benefit from two well-stocked national digital library systems and a digital library endowment – This is Part Two of LibraryCity’s series, by David Rothman, mapping out a digital future for U.S. libraries to better our lives. Part One is on the need for librarians to open their minds to innovations like the BiblioTech digital …
“The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (collectively, the agencies) issued a statement on December 27, 2013, indicating they are evaluating whether it is appropriate not to subject pooled investment vehicles for Trust …
Jason Furman is Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: “The United States economy continues to recover from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and while substantial progress has been made, more work remains to boost economic growth and speed job creation. Despite ten consecutive quarters of GDP growth and 7.8 million private sector …
Year in Review Economic Briefing, Council of Economic Advisers. December 19, 2013. “The economy is finishing 2013 in a stronger place than where it began the year, though more work remains to grow the economy, create jobs, and strengthen the middle class. This is especially notable given the general fiscal environment, including the onset of the …
“Calculators are an essential tool to help you evaluate your current financial situation, and to get you where you want to be in the future. They can tell you if you are in the “ballpark” for retirement, and help you analyze fees associated with mutual funds and 529 Plans. Here are just a few of the …
“In this special report, students from the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies examine current trends and recent developments shaping today’s global marketplace. The articles cover a wide variety of topics ranging from technology, innovation and brand building to infrastructure, entrepreneurship and social impact. A section on consumer markets looks at the popularity …
NPR – GEOFF BRUMFIEL: “Here’s a remarkable fact: For the past two decades, 10 percent of all the electricity consumed in the United States has come from Russian nuclear warheads. It was all part of a deal struck at the end of the Cold War. That deal wraps up today, when the final shipment of fuel arrives …
“The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday approved a final rule clarifying the treatment of uninsured U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks under section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as the swaps push out provision. The final rule adopts without change the interim final rule issued by …
FDIC – Supervisory Insights, December 2013. Vol. 10, Issue 2 Winter 2013. “Supervisory Insights is published by the FDIC’s Division of Risk Management Supervision to promote sound principles and practices for bank supervision. Articles in the Winter 2013 issue include: Industry Trends Highlight Importance of Effective Interest-Rate Risk Management – During the recent sustained low interest rate environment, the banking …
Leverage, Systemic Risk and Financial System Health: How Do We Develop a Healthy Financial System? by Angela Turcott. Washington University in Saint Louis – John M. Olin Business School, December 24, 2013. “This paper briefly discusses the causes of the 2007-09 financial crisis and the extent to which the systemic risk that buffeted this crisis was linked to …
Asia’s decoupling: fact, forecast or fiction? by Lillie Lam and James Yetman, Working Papers No 438, December 23, 2013. “Standard measures of real economic co-movement between Asia-Pacific economies and those elsewhere had been observed to follow a downward trend, leading some commentators to suggest that the region was decoupling. However, this process reversed in response to the International Financial Crisis, …
“The waste of a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year is not only causing major economic losses but also wreaking significant harm on the natural resources that humanity relies upon to feed itself, says a new FAO report. is the first study to analyze the impacts of global food wastage from an environmental perspective, …
