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Cars and Climate: What Can EPA Do to Control Greenhouse Gases from Mobil Sources – James E. McCarthy, Specialist in Environmental Policy, December 9, 2009. “EPA has received 10 petitions asking that it make endangerment findings and proceed to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases. Nine of the 10 petitions address mobile sources, including motor vehicles, …
“Each week CDC analyzes information about influenza disease activity in the United States and publishes findings of key flu indicators in a report called FluView. During the week of December 20-26, 2009, certain key indicators decreased, others increased, and still others remained the same compared to the previous week. Below is a summary of the …
Pew Research Center: End of Communism Cheered but Now with More Reservations – The Pulse of Europe 2009: 20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall “Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, publics of former Iron Curtain countries generally look back approvingly at the collapse of communism. Majorities of people …
Washington Post: “The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times, a sharp reversal from a long period of prosperity that is leading economists and policymakers to fundamentally rethink the underpinnings of the nation’s growth. It was, according to a wide range of data, a lost decade for American workers. A …
National Institute of Justice InShort report, Cell Phones Behind Bars, December 2009 “A widespread technology that allows people to connect with anyone, anywhere, has created concerns for corrections officials. The use of inexpensive, disposable cell phones has changed the age-old cat-and-mouse game of controlling whom inmates communicate with in the outside world and is creating …
National Vital Statistics Report, Volume 58, Number 9 – Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for April 2009: “Marriage and divorce data in this report are counts of all events occurring in the state that were received in the registration offices during the 1-month period. Divorce figures include reported annulments. There is considerable variability …
Follow up to previous postings on H.R. 4173, David Reilly, Bloomberg News columnist, commentary. Related postings on financial system
The Homeownership Gap, Andrew Haughwout, Richard Peach, Joseph Tracy. October 30, 2009 “After rising for a decade, the homeownership rate peaked at 69 percent in the third quarter of 2006. Over the next two and a half years, as home prices fell in many parts of the country and the unemployment rate rose sharply, the …
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Real Time Underlying Inflation Gauges for Monetary Policymakers, Marlene Amstad, Simon Potter, Staff Report no. 420, December 2009 “Central banks analyze a wide range of data to obtain better measures of underlying inflationary pressures. Factor models have widely been used to formalize this procedure. Using a dynamic …
New York Times: “The ammonia-treated processed meat made by Beef Products Inc. as a component for ground beef has failed testing for pathogens dozens of times — more frequently at times that plain, untreated beef that is supposedly less safe. Related Article.
Why Are Banks Holding So Many Excess Reserves? December 2009, Volume 15, Number 8, Todd Keister and James J. McAndrews “The buildup of reserves in the U.S. banking system during the financial crisis has fueled concerns that the Federal Reserves policies may have failed to stimulate the flow of credit in the economy: banks, it …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today issued a Fraud Forum staff report that examines more effective ways to protect consumers from fraudulent schemes and focus the collective knowledge and experience of forum participants to fight fraud. The February 2009 Forum was attended by academics, consumer advocates, industry representatives, and state and federal law enforcers. …
