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The Financial Crisis of 2015 – An Avoidable History, January 2011, Oliver Wyman “The sub-prime crisis of 2007 will not be the last financial sector crisis. Even during the relative calm of the last 25 years, we witnessed the property crises of the early 90s, the Asia currency crisis, the LTCM/Russia crisis and a number …
White House Blog: “As the President said in the State of the Union address, winning the future will take doing what we can do now to prepare America to compete in the global economy for decades to come. That means out-educating, out-innovating, and out-building our competition; restoring fiscal responsibility to remove the burden of deficits …
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) January 2011: Quarterly Report To Congress “Over the next 11 months the nature of the U.S. Presence in Iraq will fundamentally alter, with certain reconstruction elements either ceasing operations or transitioning responsibilities to other agencies. By September, the final Provincial Reconstruction Teams are slated to close as two …
“In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama spoke about key policy issues that are on the minds of many Americans: jobs and the economy, education, clean energy, health care reform, U.S. military personnel and their families, and the United States’ involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here is a selection on Education, …
“Privacy International, EPIC, and the Center for Media and Communications Studies (CMSC) released European Privacy and Human Rights (EPHR) 2010, a report investigating the scope of privacy and data protection laws in Europe. The study includes 33 individual reports covering issues from privacy enforcement to ID cards, biometrics, and data-sharing and video surveillance The study …
Natural Gas Monthly Jan 28, 2011: “Monthly natural and supplemental gas production, supply, consumption, disposition, storage, imports, exports, and prices in the United States. (Data reported through November 2010.) Monthly Natural Gas Gross Production Report Jan 28, 2011: “Monthly natural gas gross withdrawals estimated from data collected on Form EIA-914 (Monthly Natural Gas …
Factsheet, January 2011: “The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making available two decision-making documents related to the regulation of alfalfa that has been genetically engineered to be resistant to the herbicide commercially known as Roundup. The first is a determination of non regulated status for Roundup ready alfalfa. This determination, based on a thorough plant …
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has published a staff study recommending steps to help investors better access information about investment professionals. The recommendations of the study, which was required by Section 919B of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, must be implemented within 18 months after the …
A Strategy for the 2011 Economic Recovery, January 28, 2011, [See also related charts in PDF] – Joseph S. Tracy, Executive Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York “We should keep in mind, though, that there is considerable uncertainty associated with every economic forecast. There are both upside and downside risks that could cause …
Equatorial Guinea Country Analysis Brief Jan 28, 2011: “Equatorial Guinea has become a significant oil and natural gas exporter since the discovery and development of large offshore oil reserves in the 1990s. While both oil and gas production have increased significantly over the past decade, both volumes appear to be leveling off in the …
Via CBSnews.com: “WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denies helping in any way to procure the classified diplomatic cables his Web site made public – an allegation central to the current U.S. efforts to prosecute him on criminal charges. He also contends that the U.S., deeply embarrassed by the leak and fearful of even more sensitive and …
Freedom in the World 2011: The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy, Washington, D.C, January 13, 2011: “Global freedom suffered its fifth consecutive year of decline in 2010, according to Freedom in the World 2011, Freedom Houses annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties around the world. This represents the longest continuous period of decline in …
