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International Regulation and Treatment of Trade Finance: What Are the Issues? Marc Auboin Economic Research and Statistics, WTO “The paper discusses a number of issues related to the treatment of trade credit internationally, a priori (treatment by banking regulators) and a posteriori (treatment by debtors and creditors in the case of default), which are …
“New CITES website sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will concentrate specifically on information concerning the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), from a United States perspective.” “The United States is one of 175 member countries to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of …
News release: “Today, the Federal Communications Commission launched new digital tools — the Consumer Broadband Test and the Broadband Dead Zone Report — that allow consumers to test their broadband service and report areas where broadband is not available. The Consumer Broadband Test measures broadband quality indicators such as speed and latency, and reports that …
News release: “The Rosemary Award for worst open government performance, named after President Nixons secretary who erased 18½ minutes of a crucial Watergate tape, this year goes to the Federal Chief Information Officers Council, the senior federal officials (responsible for $71 billion a year of IT purchases) who have never addressed the failure of the …
Electronic Government: Implementation of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, GAO-10-365, March 12, 2010 Revitalization Programs: Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities, and Renewal Communities, GAO-10-464R, March 12, 2010
New York Times: “It is the Wall Street equivalent of a coroners report a 2,200-page document that lays out, in new and startling detail, how Lehman Brothers used accounting sleight of hand to conceal the bad investments that led to its undoing. The report [divided into 9 volumes], compiled by an examiner for the …
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total January exports of $142.7 billion and imports of $180.0 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $37.3 billion, down from $39.9 billion in December, revised. January exports were $0.5 billion less …
Global Food Security: Progress toward a U.S. Governmentwide Strategy Is Under Way, but Approach Has Several Vulnerabilities, GAO-10-494T, March 11, 2010 Global Food Security: U.S. Agencies Progressing on Governmentwide Strategy, but Approach Faces Several Vulnerabilities, GAO-10-352, March 11, 2010 Joint Strike Fighter: Significant Challenges Remain as DOD Restructures Program, GAO-10-520T, March 11, 2010 Temporary Assistance …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that the number of overall traffic fatalities reported at the end of 2009 reached the lowest level since 1954, declining for the 15th consecutive quarter. According to early projections, the fatality rate, which takes into account the number of miles traveled, reached the lowest level ever …
Job Creation Programs of the Great Depression: the WPA and the CCC, Linda Levine, Specialist in Labor Economics, January 14, 2010 “With the exception of the Great Depression, the recession that began in December 2007 is the nations most severe according to various labor market indicators. The 7.1 million jobs cut from employer payrolls between …
News release: “Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today sued two of the nations largest credit rating agencies — Moodys and Standard & Poors — for knowingly assigning tainted credit ratings to risky investments backed by sub-prime loans. Blumenthal said Moodys and S&Ps alleged misconduct enabled the worst economic downturn in the nation since The Great Depression. …
Fiscal Policy Choices, March 2010. CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s presentation to the National Association for Business Economics. “CBO projects that the debt is on a trajectory that poses significant economic risks and becomes unsustainable. The key choices for medium-term and long-term policy are how quickly and in what way to restrain federal borrowing.” Related postings …
