Category «Financial System»

Legal Linked Data Ecosystems and the Rule of Law

Springer Professional Open Access E-Book: 5.1 Introduction: The Rule of Law in a New Brave World – We will expand in this chapter some ways of implementing linked democracy on legal and political bases. Linked democracy is not only a theoretical approach incorporating open linked data to theories of democracy. It consists of practices and …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry

The Verge – Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry – It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians – “Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Here’s a prediction: In the future, predictions will only get worse

Quartz: “The Australian election produced a winner no pollster predicted: Prime minister Scott Morrison’s ruling coalition remained in power, despite all expectations to the contrary. After the surprise outcomes of the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump as US president, what now feels like the most predictable outcome of any election is that the …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media, Transportation

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues May 26, 2019

Via LLRX – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Internet, Privacy

Commentary – Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill

Cato Institute: “Washington’s latest symbolic battle is looming. America’s money celebrates its early political leaders, white males all. There’s now a campaign to provide for greater currency diversity. The group Women on 20s held a poll on what woman should be added: the victor was famed antislavery activist Harriet Tubman, who narrowly beat out First …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Financial System, Government Documents

Global economy remains weak as subdued trade drags down growth

OECD Economic Outlook May 2019: “A year ago, the OECD warned about how trade and policy uncertainties could significantly damage the world economy and further contribute to the growing divide between people. A year later, global momentum has weakened markedly and growth is set to remain subpar as trade tensions persist. Trade and investment have …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Robots to take 400,000 finance jobs in the next decade

Opimas Report – Workforce of the Future:Transplanting Technology Skill Sets to the Capital Markets 2019-05-16 – “The post-crisis regulatory tsunami that hit the capital markets over the past 10 years has had a major impact on the global industry’s workforce. Despite strong downward pressure on margins, financial institutions embarked on massive recruitment for their risk …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System

Recession Ready: Fiscal Policies to Stabilize the American Economy

This volume [256 pages] —a joint project by The Hamilton Project and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth—focuses on the workhorse antirecession programs known as “automatic stabilizers.” “The Great Recession is remembered, and properly so, for its massive destruction of household wealth and job losses that reached over 800,000 in a single month. In just …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

House Intel Committee releases transcripts of Michael Cohen’s 2 day closed-door testimony

Cohen’s February 2019 testimony can be found here. Cohen’s March 2019 testimony can be found here. [May 20, 2019], the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted to release Michael Cohen’s testimony and related exhibits to the public by a vote of 12 – 7. Afterwards, Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) made the following statement: “With …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

US District Judge in DC rules Congress may subpoena records from Trump accounting firm

BuzzFeedNews: ” A federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s efforts to block a subpoena issued by House Democrats to his longtime accounting firm. US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote in a 41-page opinion that the House Oversight Committee had presented “facially valid legislative purposes” in subpoenaing Mazars LLP for financial …

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

This economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal

Vox – Most new publications, upon their launch, seek to promote their content as novel, surprising, exciting. A new journal that began publishing this week does … the opposite of that. “Start with the name: Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE). The journal publishes papers with findings that are, well, really boring — so …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

The 2019 Fortune 500 List: The Prize of Size

From industry dominating mergers to legacy second-acts, the world’s highest-revenue-generating companies make moves that reverberate. – Consider this fact: Just 500 companies—the ones on this year’s ­Fortune 500 list, to be precise—produced enough revenue last year to equal two-thirds of the entire economic output of the United States. Think about that a minute: just 500 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Legal Research