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Medicares Payments to Physicians: The Budgetary Impact of Alternative Policies, June 4, 2011 “The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that, under current law, payment rates for physician services will be reduced by 29.4 percent in 2012. That large reduction called for under current law follows several years of legislative action to either maintain or increase …
UK Globe and Mail: “The London-based World Energy Council says Israels Shfela Basin, a half-hour drive south of Jerusalem, holds 250 billion barrels of recoverable shale oil, possibly making the energy-vulnerable country (as expressed by The Wall Street Journal) the worlds newest energy giant. With reserves of 260 billion barrels, Saudi Arabia would remain the …
Financial Literacy : What Works? How Could It be More Effective? William G. Gale and Ruth Levine, Financial Security Project at Boston College, 2011. “This paper highlights the extent and effects of financial illiteracy among American households, reviews previous efforts to promote financial literacy, and discusses new directions for such initiatives. None of the four …
Federal Register Volume 76, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 29, 2011)] “The purpose of this proposed DFARS rule is to implement adequate security measures to safeguard unclassified DoD information within contractor information systems from unauthorized access and disclosure, and to prescribe reporting to DoD with regard to certain cyberintrusion events that affect DoD information resident on …
“Forty-five years after President Johnson signed the U.S. Freedom of Information Act into law in 1966, federal agency backlogs of FOIA requests are growing, with the oldest requests at eight agencies dating back over a decade and the single oldest request now 20 years old, according to the Knight Open Government Survey by the National …
The Costs of War Since 2001: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, June 2011 – Ten Years, 225,000 Killed, and More than $3.2 – 4 Trillion Spent and Obligated to Date: “Over this long nearly ten years, the United States launched two major wars and engaged in the largest reorganization of its government since the Great Depression. …
News release: “The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released How Does Slack Influence Inflation?, the latest article in its series Current Issues in Economics and Finance. In a statistical analysis, authors Richard Peach, Robert Rich and Anna Cororaton find support for the hypothesis that the level of resource utilization in an economy must cross …
“So what do you need to do before zombies or hurricanes or pandemics for example, actually happen? First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house. This includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the first couple of days before you can locate a zombie-free refugee camp (or …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury released the The Obama Administrations E fforts To Stabilize the Housing Market and Help American Homeowners, June 2011, the Obama Administration’s Housing Scorecard a comprehensive report on the nations housing market. The latest housing data offer …
NYT: “Long regarded as a windowless ivory tower, the World Bank is opening its vast vault of information. True, the bank still lends roughly $170 billion annually. But it is increasingly competing for influence and power with Wall Street, national governments and smaller regional development banks, who have as much or more money to offer. …
Via Project On Government Oversight (POGO): “Taxpayers were massively overcharged in dozens of transactions between the Army and Boeing for helicopter spare parts, according to a full, unredacted Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) audit – that POGO is making public for the first time. The overcharges range from 33.3 percent to …
News release: “As developing countries emerged from the financial crisis in FY11 (July 1, 2010 June 30, 2011), the Bank Group provided an estimated 712 loans, grants, equity investments and guarantees to promote economic growth, fight poverty, and assist private enterprise. World Bank (IBRD and IDA) commitments for social protectionincluding safety net programs for …
