Environmental Justice: EPA Needs to Take Additional Actions to Help Ensure Effective Implementation, GAO-12-77, Oct 6, 2011 Federal Housing Administration: Improvements Needed in Risk Assessment and Human Capital Management, GAO-12-15, Nov 7, 2011 Next Generation Air Transportation System: Linking Test Facilities Can Help Leverage Resources and Improve Technology Transfer Efforts, GAO-12-187T, Nov 7, 2011

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Anchoring countercyclical capital buffers: the role of credit aggregates The Impact of the International Financial Crisis on Asia and the Pacific: Highlighting Monetary Policy Challenges from a Negative Asset Price Bubble Perspective Rescue packages and bank lending News driven business cycles and data on asset prices in estimated DSGE models

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Remaining Risks in the Tri-Party Repo Market, Antoine Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York “The tri-party repo market is one in which large U.S. securities firms and bank securities affiliates (dealers) finance much of their fixed-income securities inventories. A New York Fed white paper and the Financial System Oversight Council annual report have highlighted …

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Monthly Budget Review November 2011. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for September and the Daily Treasury Statements for October “The federal government recorded a total budget deficit of $1.3 trillion in fiscal year 2011, almost identical to the deficit it incurred in 2010. As a share of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the …

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The Generation Gap and the 2012 Election – Angry Silents, Disengaged Millennials, November 3, 2011 “In the last four national elections, generational differences have mattered more than they have in decades. According to the exit polls, younger people have voted substantially more Democratic than other age groups in each election since 2004, while older voters …

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The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame?, Robert B. Avery and Kenneth P. Brevoort, 2011-36, Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. “A growing literature suggests that housing policy, embodied by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the affordable housing goals of …

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CBO’s Use of Evidence in Analysis of Budget and Economic Policies, November 2011 – CBO Associate Director for Economic Analysis Jeffrey R. Kling’s presentation at the Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

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News release: “A new World Bank Group initiative will help Brazil’s efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in the country, the World Bank announced today. The Bank’s Board approved a US$ 8 billion new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Brazil, which will guide the Group’s overall program in the country for the fiscal years 2012-2015. The …

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September 2011: The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas produces estimates of monthly payroll employment by Federal Reserve District. These data are now available to the public and will be updated monthly – Data for employment by Federal Reserve District “The 50 states and the District of Columbia are divided among 12 Federal Reserve districts. With …

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The International Agenda for Financial Regulation, Governor Daniel K. Tarullo, American Bar Association Banking Law Committee Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 4, 2011 “Basel 2.5, Basel III, and the G-SIB surcharges can only reduce the chances of highly disruptive failure, not eliminate them. A necessary supplement is a strong resolution mechanism for systemically important firms, …

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News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend up in October (+80,000), and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment in the private sector rose, with modest job growth continuing in professional and businesses services, leisure and hospitality, health care, and mining. Government employment …

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