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CRS Reducing the Budget Deficit: The President’s Fiscal Commission and Other Initiatives. April 29, 2011 – R41784 “The federal budget is on an unsustainable path. Though deficit levels are currently elevated, they are expected to fall towards the middle part of the decade as the economic recovery continues. Looking beyond this decade, however, the …
CRS The U.S.-Canada Energy Relationship: Joined at the Well – July 12, 2011 “The United States and Canada, while independent countries, effectively comprise a single integrated market for petroleum and natural gas. Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of petroleum products and natural gas to the United Statesand the United States is the …
U.S. Energy Information Administration | Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2011, July 2011 “The Energy Information Administration (EIA) produces projections of energy supply and demand each year in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). The projections in the AEO are not statements of what will happen but of what might happen, given the assumptions and …
Global Banks and Their Internal Capital Markets during the Crisis – Nicola Cetorelli and Linda S. Goldberg “As financial markets have become increasingly globalized, banks have developed growing networks of branches and subsidiaries in foreign countries. This expansion of banking across borders is changing the way banks manage their balance sheets, and the ways home …
“The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) critical response to a July 4 report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) ignored the body of evidence presented by TRAC about systematic and hard-to-explain disparities within the SSA’s court system. A point-by-point refutation of the agency’s sweeping statement regarding TRAC’s report can be found here. Read TRAC’s original …
News release: “Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a framework to assist states in building Affordable Insurance Exchanges, state-based competitive marketplaces where individuals and small businesses will be able to purchase affordable private health insurance and have the same insurance choices as members of Congress. Starting in 2014, Exchanges will …
Interagency Collaboration: Implications of a Common Alignment of World Regions among Select Federal Agencies, GAO-11-776R, July 11, 2011 Private Fund Advisers: Although a Self-Regulatory Organization Could Supplement SEC Oversight, It Would Present Challenges and Trade-offs, GAO-11-623, July 11, 2011
Securing a clean energy future – The Australian Governments Climate Change Plan, July 2011 “The Government has developed a comprehensive plan for a clean energy future. The need for this plan is clear, from both an environmental and an economic perspective. This plan has been devised in response to clear scientific advice that the world …
“The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act established the federal premerger notification program, which provides the FTC and the Department of Justice with information about large mergers and acquisitions before they occur. The parties to certain proposed transactions must submit premerger notification to the FTC and DOJ. Premerger notification involves completing an HSR Form, also called a Notification and …
NRDC: “With Congress about to consider eliminating 2007 lighting efficiency standards before they even take effect, a new analysis shows the standards would save the country more than $12.5 billion annually when fully implemented in 2020. Americans’ energy costs would be reduced by an average of 7 percent or about $85 per household each and …
Social Safety Nets – An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 20002010 “Recent crisesfuel, food, and financialhave underscored the urgency of developing social safety nets (SSNs) in all countries. These crises have pushed millions of additional people into extreme poverty, reversing previous gains in poverty reduction. Even before they were hit by the crises, many countries …
Horizontal Drilling and High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale and Other Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs, July 2011: “High-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) is a gas well stimulation technique that has greatly increased the ability to extract natural gas from very tight rock. HVHF, which is often used in conjunction with horizontal drilling and multi-well pad development, …
