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Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin At the National Consumer Law Center’s Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 12, 2010: Problems in the Mortgage Servicing Industry “The number of foreclosures initiated on residential properties has soared from about one million in 2006, the year that house prices peaked, to 2.8 million last year. There were 1.2 …
Governor Daniel K. Tarullo At the George Washington University Center for Law, Economics, and Finance Conference on the Dodd-Frank Act, Washington, D.C., November 12, 2010 – Next Steps in Financial Regulatory Reform: “The financial crisis showed that the concentrated, almost all-consuming regulatory focus on refining bank capital requirements in Basel II had come at the …
Location-Based Preferences in Federal and Federally Funded Contracting: An Overview of the Law, John R. Luckey, Legislative Attorney; Kate M. Manuel, Legislative Attorney, October 1, 2010 “The recession that began in December 2007 has prompted increased interest among some Members of Congress and their constituents in legal authorities that could require or allow federal agencies …
“In this report, State of the Nation’s River 2010, Potomac Conservancy highlights the value of our natural and working landscapes, as well as the pressures facing both from man-made causes, primarily development. This report makes the case for placing a high value on forested lands, and also appropriately scaled and well-managed farms, by recognizing the …
“Google commissioned The Boston Consulting Group to produce an independent analysis of the value of the UKs Internet economy, the factors that are driving this, how we compare to other countries, and how this will change in the future. Google wants to help UK businesses get online and use the Internet to grow and have …
News release: “The JWST Independent Comprehensive Review Panel (ICRP) has completed its work and herewith submits its Report. As Senator Barbara Mikulski noted in her letter requesting an independent review of JWST, The James Webb Space Telescope will be the most scientifically powerful telescope NASA has ever built100 times more powerful than the Hubble, which …
U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes, October 2010: U.S. import prices rose 0.9 percent in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, after edging down 0.1 percent in September. Higher fuel and nonfuel prices contributed to the increase in October. Export prices advanced for the third consecutive month in October, rising 0.8 percent. …
News release: ‘Remittances to developing countries were a resilient source of external financing during the recent global financial crisis, with recorded flows expected to reach $325 billion by the end of this year, up from $307 billion in 2009, according to the World Banks latest Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011. Worldwide, remittance flows are expected …
“FedFlix is a joint venture with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) in cooperation with other government agencies including the National Archives. They send us government videotapes, we upload them to the Internet Archive, YouTube, and our own public domain stock footage video library then we send the government back their videotapes and a …
National Journal: “The chairmen of President Obamas fiscal commission proposed a sweeping collection of spending cuts and tax increases today in a bid to jolt the panel’s 16 other members away from their Republican and Democratic orthodoxies. The proposals call for significant reductions in future Social Security benefits — an untouchable issue for many Democrats …
News release: The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) requires that cigarette packages and advertisements have larger and more visible graphic health warnings. FDA issued a proposed rule, Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements, proposing to modify the required warnings that appear on cigarette packages and in cigarette advertisements. These …
Financial Audit: IRS’s Fiscal Years 2010 and 2009 Financial Statements, GAO-11-142, November 10, 2010 Space Acquisitions: Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed under the Small Business Innovation Research Program, GAO-11-21, November 10, 2010 NATO Partnerships: DOD Needs to Assess U.S. Assistance in Response to Changes to the Partnership for Peace Program, GAO-10-1015, September 30, 2010 Financial …
