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Monthly Flash Estimate Sep 20, 2010: “The September issue of the Monthly Flash Estimate (MFE) of Electric Power Data is available on EIA’s Electricity page. This issue provides early highlights of July 2010 electricity data. In July 2010, total electric power generation in the United States increased 9.2 percent compared to July 2009. Over …
The Stagnating Labor Market, Arjun Jayadev, Mike Konczal | The Roosevelt Institute, September 19, 2010 “But ever since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following recession the labor market has broken down. Though tempered by the fiscal and monetary stimulus programs of the government, the waves of unemployment and exits from the labor force …
Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity, Travis A. Smith, Biing-Hwan Lin, Rosanna Mentzer Morrison, September 2010 “Obesity among the U.S. population has increased markedly over the past three decades. Two-thirds of U.S. adults are now either overweight or obese, and growing numbers of children are overweight as well. Studies by nutritionists and epidemiologists suggest …
Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security: Vol. 2, Privacy and the Smart Grid. The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Cyber Security Working Group, August 2010 “The Smart Grid brings with it many new data collection, communication, and information sharing capabilities related to energy usage, and these technologies in turn introduce concerns about privacy. Privacy relates …
News release: “As the Senate prepares to consider small business jobs legislation this week, a new report by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) shows that lending to small businesses has declined in 2010, small business hiring remains flat and the smallest firms continue to reduce hiring…The report, entitled Small Business Employment: Bank Lending …
Rural America at a Glance, 2010 Edition, Lorin Kusmin and Thomas Hertz, editors. Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-68) 6 pp, September 2010 “Rural America At A Glance, 2010 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2010 …
State Nuclear Profiles Sep 15, 2010: “The newly-formatted State Nuclear Profiles contains 2008 final data on nuclear generation and capacity, significant facts about the local nuclear industry, nuclear plant construction costs, dates of commercial reactor operation and license expiration, and type of cooling system. Tables also compare nuclear and other output and capacity.”
DOJ – Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force, Fifth Anniversary Report to the Attorney General, September 2010 “When it was established in September 2005, the mission of the Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force was to deter, prevent, detect, and punish fraud related to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Subsequently, as other hurricanes and disasters, both …
News release: “In testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee, the Federal Trade Commission explained how it protects consumers by applying well-established principles of competition to fast-changing technology markets. Some have argued that there should be different rules for markets characterized by rapid technological development, but Congress drafted the antitrust laws in general terms …
United Kingdom Country Analysis Brief Sep 15, 2010: “The United Kingdom (UK) is the largest producer of oil and second-largest producer of natural gas in the European Union (EU). However, after years of being a net exporter of both fuels, by 2005 the UK became a net importer. For the latest information on the …
Flow of Funds Summary Statistics Second Quarter 2010, September 17, 2010: “Debt of the domestic nonfinancial sectors is estimated to have expanded at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4¾ percent in the second quarter of 2010, ¼ percentage point more than in the previous quarter. Private debt declined again in the second quarter, while …
Governor Daniel K. Tarullo at the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Washington, D.C. September 17, 2010 – Comments on “Regulating the Shadow Banking System Broadly speaking, threats to financial stability can arise in two ways: first, through the rapid deterioration or failure of a large institution with leverage sufficient to have widespread knock-on effects and, …
