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“NIST announces that its working definition of cloud computing is available. Researchers worked in collaboration with industry and government to draft the definition that serves as a foundation for its research and future publication on the topic. Cloud computing is a pay-per-use model for enabling available, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of …
News release: “Many people concerned about their mortgage, their job or their finances may be especially vulnerable to scams and other costly “fixes” for their problems. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation today issued a variety of tips to help consumers be on guard financially in the current economy. The advice was published in the Spring …
Treasury: Quarterly Report to Congress on International Monetary Fund Lending, January 1 March 31, 2009
Quarterly Banking Profile: Fourth Quarter 2008 – The 2009 Economic Landscape: How the Recession Is Unfolding across Four U.S. Regions Alternative Financial Services – A Primer – “Provides the earliest comprehensive summary of financial results for all FDIC-insured institutions. This report card on industry status and performance includes written analyses, graphs and statistical tables.”
News release: “World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 44 percent between 2006 and 2030, driven by strong long-term economic growth in the developing nations of the world, according to the reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2009 (IEO2009) released today by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The current global economic …
News release: “Devolution has changed the system of Government of the United Kingdom irreversibly, according to the Commons Justice Committee, but has left Englands government highly centralised and, in the view of many, in need of fundamental change. Report – Devolution: A Decade On – In its report published today, the three-party Committee analyses the …
New York Times: “President Obama announced on Tuesday that he will nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in Bronx public housing projects to become the nations first Hispanic justice.”
Reducing Foreclosures: No Easy Answers, Christopher Foote, Kristopher Gerardi, Lorenz Goette, and Paul Willen, Working Paper 2009-15, May 2009 “This paper takes a skeptical look at a leading argument about what is causing the foreclosure crisis and what should be done to stop it. We use an economic model to focus on two key decisions: …
News release: “Our current economic situation has altered some of the usual interactions between monetary and fiscal policy. One change regards the relative effects of monetary and fiscal policy. The depth and persistence of economic weakness has meant that traditional monetary policy–the target for the federal funds rate–has become constrained from easing as much as …
News release: “Deaths of children aged under five years have dropped by 27% globally since 1990, according to the latest WHO estimates. But in WHOs first progress report on the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) released today in the World Health Statistics 2009, other results are mixed. An estimated 9 million children aged under five …
News release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro outlined a series of measures the agency is taking to strengthen its internal compliance program to guard against inappropriate employee securities trading….The measures the agency is taking include: First, the staff has drafted a set of new internal rules governing securities transactions for all SEC employees …
Fact Sheet: “Today, President Obama signs the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009, marking a turning point for American consumers and ending the days of unfair rate hikes and hidden fees. Americans need a healthy flow of credit in our economy, but for too long credit card contracts and practices have …
