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Majority And Minority Staff Report United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Wall Street And The Financial Crisis: Anatomy Of A Financial Collapse, April 13, 2011 – : “This 639 page report, which was part of a 2-year bi-partisan investigation by the U.S. Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations …
Short-Term Energy and Summer Fuels Outlook – April 12, 2011 “West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil spot prices averaged $89 per barrel in February and $103 per barrel in March. The WTI price has continued to rise in recent days, reaching $112 on April 8. Crude oil prices are currently at their highest level since …
Coast Guard: Observations on Acquisition Management and Efforts to Reassess the Deepwater Program, GAO-11-535T, April 13, 2011 Coast Guard: Opportunities Exist to Further Improve Acquisition Management Capabilities, GAO-11-480, April 13, 2011 Defense Management: The Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2012 Corrosion Prevention and Control Budget Request, GAO-11-490R, April 13, 2011 Medical Devices: FDA’s Premarket Review …
“The Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for a number of web-based initiatives, including development of the website healthcare.gov which provides a variety of health information and helps individuals find coverage options. Therefore, understanding the level and quality of Internet access among those groups most likely to benefit from reform, such as the uninsured, those with …
“The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a pattern of misconduct and negligence related to deficient practices in residential mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing. These deficiencies represent significant and pervasive compliance failures and unsafe and unsound practices at these institutions. The Board is taking these …
President Obama’s speech, “The Country We Believe In,” at George Washington University, as prepared for delivery, April 13, 2011. “So here’s the truth. Around two-thirds of our budget is spent on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and national security. Programs like unemployment insurance, student loans, veterans’ benefits, and tax credits for working families take up another …
“The Federal Trade Commission today told a House subcommittee that millions of consumers are victims of identity theft each year at a cost of billion of dollars and countless hours of consumers time to repair the damage. In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committees Social Security Subcommittee, the agency said helping protect consumers …
“A new Freedom House report found that while the majority of circumvention tools used to evade government censorship online perform similarly well, the country in which they are used and the nature of the censorship dictate their effectiveness. No one tool provides a silver bullet for security as governments become more sophisticated in filtering content …
“the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (collectively Commissions) delivered to Congress a joint staff study on the the feasibility of requiring the derivatives industry to adopt standardized computer-readable algorithmic descriptions which may be used to describe complex and standardized financial derivatives. See Title VII, Sec. 719(b) of Dodd-Frank. Based on the …
Federal Reserve Governor Daniel K. Tarullo – Derivatives regulation, Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., April 12, 2011 “The Dodd-Frank Act addressed both the infrastructure of the derivatives markets and the regulation and supervision of its dealers and major participants. Central counterparties are given an expanded role in …
HousingWire – Iowa AG says servicer settlement study flawed: “A study concerning the impending settlement between state attorneys general and mortgage servicers was deemed flawed and inaccurate by the man leading the investigation into servicing practices. The study in question was conducted by three academics from universities around the country that found the settlement, which …
News release: “More than one in four British adults smoke and one in four are obese, increasing the country’s collective risk for chronic conditions. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index also reveals that rates of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes among British adults increase sharply after age 45. Obesity rates in the U.K. increase into …
