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News release: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today issued its 2008 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, a national study that explores changes in homelessness nationwide. HUD’s assessment concludes that while overall homelessness in America held fairly steady from 2007 to 2008, the number of homeless families, particularly those living in suburban …
June 29, 2009 – Tunisia: Current Issues June 29, 2009 – Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program: An Overview June 26, 2009 – Iraq: U.S. Casualties June 26, 2009 – The Emergency Alert System (EAS) and All-Hazard Warnings June 26, 2009 – Afghanistan: Politics, Government Formation and Performance June 24, 2009 – Potential Farm Sector Effects of …
A Guide to the Preservation of Federal Judges Papers, Second Edition, Federal Judicial History Office, Federal Judicial Center 2009 “The preservation of a judges chambers papers and other personal records establishes a foundation for historical studies that document the role of the federal judiciary in American life. The personal papers of a judge offer a …
Canada Country Analysis Brief (07/09/2009): “Canada has considerable natural resources and is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of energy. In 2006, Canada produced 19.3 quadrillion British Thermal Units (Btu) of total energy, the fifth-largest amount in the world. Since 1980, Canada’s total energy production has increased by 87 percent, while its total …
Monthly Labor Review, Volume 132, Number 6, June 2009. Includes the following articles: BLS at 125: using historic principles to track the 21st-century economy; How shifting occupational composition has affected the real average wage; What do OES data have to say about increasing wage inequality?; and Productivity trends in business cycles: a visual essay.
News release: “The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released its latest and 12th edition of The SAR Activity Review By the Numbers. The report shows a continued overall rise in Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filings including an increase in depository institution filings related to all seven areas of suspected fraud listed on the …
World Economic Outlook Update – Contractionary Forces Receding But Weak Recovery Ahead, July 8, 2009 “The global economy is beginning to pull out of a recession unprecedented in the postWorld War II era, but stabilization is uneven and the recovery is expected to be sluggish. Economic growth during 200910 is now projected to be about …
WSJ: “Seeing Eye dogs were first systematically trained in Germany during World War I to aid blinded veterans. Today, psychiatric-service dogs are being trained to help veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan battles…Puppies Behind Bars Inc., a New York-based nonprofit that uses prisoners to train animals, has placed psychiatric-service dogs with 11 veterans and hopes to …
WSJ: “Some federal departments are finding it easier to move stimulus money than others. See how much money each agency is responsible for, how much they’ve made available and how much of that has been spent.” See also related article, Stimulus Aid Is Said to Be Moving Faster. Related postings on financial system
Economist.com: Regulating banks – Capital rules now seem the only way to tame the banks. They will need to be tighter than in the past. “Lenders are run for private benefit, but taxpayers underwrite them if things go wrong. Yet the scale of support that has been extended in the current financial crisis is unprecedented: …
Memorandum: Risk Management – Asset and Liability Concentrations – Office of Thrift Supervision, July 9, 2009 “The Office of Supervision (OTS) has conducted internal reviews of recent savings association failures and has identified concerns regarding asset and liability concentrations and related risk management practices. Higher-risk asset and liability concentrations contributed significantly to the increase in …
Working Paper – Structural Inflation Models with Real Wage Rigidities: The Case of Canada, Jean-Marie Dufour, Lynda Khalaf, and Maral Kichian, July 2009 “Real wage rigidities have recently been proposed as a way of building intrinsic persistence in inflation within the context of New Keynesian Phillips Curves. Using two recent illustrative structural models, we evaluate …
