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“As a centerpiece of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, the focus on preventive services is a profound shift from a reactive system that primarily responds to acute problems and urgent needs to one that helps foster optimal health and well-being. The ACA addresses preventive services for both men and women …
News release: “Median weekly earnings of the nation’s 100.6 million full-time wage and salary workers were $753 in the second quarter of 2011 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 1.8 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 3.4 percent in the Consumer Price Index …
“A total of 15,173 Federal criminal prosecutions were recorded as being filed during April 2011, according to the most recent data released by the Department of Justice. Immigration charges again took the top two spots for the most frequent lead charges brought. Illegal entry — with 4,782 defendants charged, up sharply in April — was …
How do inflation expectations form? New insights from a high-frequency survey – by Gabriele Galati, Peter Heemeijer and Richhild Moessner, BIS Working Papers No 349, July 2011 “We provide new insights on the formation of inflation expectations – in particular at a time of great financial and economic turmoil – by evaluating results from a …
Ballistic Missile Defense – Actions Needed to Improve Training Integration and Increase Transparency of Training Resources, GAO-11-625, July 18, 2011 Coast Guard – Civil Rights Directorate Can Enhance Workforce Restructuring Efforts, GAO-11-718, July 18, 2011 Troubled Asset Relief Program, The Government’s Exposure to AIG Following the Company’s Recapitalization, GAO-11-716, July 18, 2011 World Trade Center …
Local currency bond markets and the Asian Bond Fund 2 Initiative, Bank for International Settlements, July 14, 2011 “The eight local currency government bond markets in which the ABF2 invests have made significant strides since the fund’s inception in 2005. Liquidity has improved considerably in most of these markets and yield curves have become increasingly …
“The Office for Budget Responsibility was created in 2010 to provide independent and authoritative analysis of the UKs public finances. It is one of a growing number of official independent fiscal watchdogs around the world.” Fiscal sustainability report July 2011 – The first FSR was published on 13 July 2011. The main document and …
Kuwait – Last Updated: July 2011: “Kuwait is a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), exporting the fourth largest volume of oil among the group in 2010. At the same time, Kuwait’s economy is one heavily dependent on petroleum export revenues, which account for half of its overall gross domestic product (GDP), …
“The .gov reform effort is part of President Obama’s Campaign to Cut Waste, identifying unnecessary websites that can be consolidated into other websites to reduce costs and improve the quality of service to the American public. The President signed Executive Order 13571, “Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service,” April 27, 2011, which requires federal …
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization – G.17, July 15, 2011 release date: “Industrial production increased 0.2 percent in June after having edged down 0.1 percent in May. For the second quarter as a whole, total industrial production increased at an annual rate of 0.8 percent. Manufacturing output was unchanged in June. In the second quarter, …
The May 2011 Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales report was released on July 14, 2011 Sales. “The U.S. Census Bureau announced that the combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers shipments for May, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,184.2 billion, down 0.1 percent (±0.1%)* …
“The stress test exercise – summary report. “The 2011 EBAs EU wide stress test had the objective of assessing the resilience of a large sample of banks in the EU1 against an adverse but plausible scenario. The scenario assesses banks against a deterioration from the baseline forecast in the main macroeconomic variables such as GDP, …
