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News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced an interim final rule to ensure that real estate appraisers are free to use their independent professional judgment in assigning home values without influence or pressure from those with interests in the transactions. The rule also seeks to ensure that appraisers receive customary and reasonable payments …
News release: “The Defense Departments current reliance on expensive, difficultto-transport and finite fossil fuels affects cost-reduction efforts as well as war-fighting operations, a senior Pentagon official said. Certainly, for current operations and for the future, one of the things we’re really focused on is reducing demand, [which is] reducing our consumption, because no matter what …
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: “Ensuring that remuneration is effectively aligned with risk and performance is an essential element for reducing incentives that may arise from the design of remuneration schemes and that can lead to excessive risk taking. In practice, the idea that an employee’s compensation should take account of the risks that employees …
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization, G.17, released October 18, 2010: “Industrial production decreased 0.2 percent in September after having increased 0.2 percent in August. The indexes both for manufacturing and for manufacturing excluding motor vehicles and parts also moved down 0.2 percent in September. Production at mines moved up 0.7 percent, while the output of …
Criminal Victimization, 2009 – Michael Rand, Jennifer Truman, October 13, 2010 – NCJ 231327 “Presents the annual estimates of rates and levels of violent crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault), property crime (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and property theft), and personal theft (pocket picking and purse snatching). This report describes …
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WSJ: “U.S. sugar production will be cut by about 20% if farmers are banned from planting genetically modified beets next year, according to data prepared for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of a court case over whether to continue allowing the practice. Genetically modified beets have come to account for 95% of the …
Pretend and Extend–Our Mortgage Crisis Fantasy – Christopher B. Leinberger, Brookings Visiting Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program “According to Stan Humphries, the chief economist of Zillow, an online housing-research firm, if you plot changes in home values within a typical metro region on a satellite map, the result looks like an archery target, with the outlying …
Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry, By Alicia Bannon, Mitali Nagrecha, Rebekah Diller, 10/04/10 “Many states are imposing new and often onerous user fees on individuals with criminal convictions. Yet far from being easy money, these fees impose severe and often hidden costs on communities, taxpayers, and indigent people convicted of crimes. …
An Endangered Species? The State of American Unions, Harold Meyerson, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, September 2010. “The U.S. labor movement confronts an existential threat of extinction, despite the election of Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress in 2008. This has been largely due to the loss of members in key industries and their inability to secure comprehensive labor …
WSJ: “Regulators closed two banks in Missouri and one in Kansas, raising the total number of bank failures in 2010 to 132. In Missouri, the state division of finance closed Premier Bank of Jefferson City, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. arranged for its nine branches to be reopened Saturday by Providence Bank in Columbia.”
“The USDA Forest Service today released new estimates of the total carbon storage of U.S. forests, highlighting the important role America’s forests play in the fight against climate change. According to the new data, 41.4 billion metric tons of carbon is currently stored in the nation’s forests, and due to both increases in the total …
