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Urban Institute – Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Benefits Over a Lifetime, January 2011 “How much will you pay in Social Security and Medicare taxes over your lifetime? And how much can you expect to get back in benefits? It depends on whether youre married, when you retire, and how much youve earned over …
Policymaking from a “macroprudential” perspective in emerging market economies, by Ramon Moreno, Working Papers No 336, Bank for International Settlements, January 2011 “Recurrent capital inflows pose important challenges for authorities in emerging market economies seeking to preserve financial stability. Raising interest rates to dampen imbalances that could arise from capital flows can also attract more …
Via Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, this new memorandum on technology neutrality: “Each year, the U.S. Government spends almost $80 billion dollars buying information technology (IT); the software, computer equipment and network devices that help the Government run efficiently. It is important that those purchases be fair, neutral and based on an …
News release: “Nearly 10 years after the greatest human-made disaster in U.S. history– the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers — there has been little research documenting the attacks consequences among those most directly affected — the survivors who escaped the World Trade Center towers. In a study just released by Columbia Universitys …
Economic Rankings: “Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 183. A high ranking on the ease of doing business index means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm. This index averages the country’s percentile rankings on 9 topics, made up of a …
Follow up to previous postings on WikiLeaks, Salon posted a copy of the December 14, 2010 subpoena to Twitter Inc. from DOJ, U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Virginia, for information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation. Salon: Court probes WikiLeaks Twitter info
Monthly Budget Review – January 2011 – Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for November and the Daily Treasury Statements for December: “The federal budget deficit was $371 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2011, CBO estimates, $18 billion less than the shortfall in the same period of fiscal year 2010. Revenues were …
DOD’s 2010 Comprehensive Inventory Management Improvement Plan Addressed Statutory Requirements, But Faces Implementation Challenges, GAO-11-240R, January 07, 2011 “The Department of Defense (DOD) spends billions of dollars to purchase, manage, store, track, and deliver spare parts and other supplies needed to keep military equipment ready and operating. Given the need to support ongoing U.S. military …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today are announcing important steps to ensure that standards and guidelines on fluoride in drinking water continue to provide the maximum protection to the American people to support good dental health, especially in children. HHS is proposing …
News release: The unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage point to 9.4 percent in December, and nonfarm payroll employment increased by 103,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in leisure and hospitality and in health care but was little changed in other major industries. The number of unemployed persons decreased by …
How the Recession Changed Us – What a difference two years makes, by Timothy Lavin “Officially, the Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. A mere 18 monthsabout average, as recessions go. Yet if the trauma this time feels deep and lasting, that may be because, as the figures on these pages show, …
The U.S. housing bubble and bust: impacts on employment, Kathryn J. Byun, an economist in the Division of Industry Employment Projections, Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections, Bureau of Labor Statistics “Employment Projections Program data are used to estimate employment impacts due to the recent housing market cycle, and alternative nonbubble demand scenarios indicate …
