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News release: “Throughout the developing world, infrastructure is improving living conditions and reducing poverty. But these life-changing investments are increasingly threatened as budgets shrink in the global financial crisis. The World Bank estimates all developing countries could face an infrastructure financing gap as high as $270 billion a year. Another $110 billion of privately financed …
Key Facts about Swine Influenza (Swine Flu): “Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, …
New York Review of Books: The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs, By Arlen Specter, April 16, 2009 “In the seven and a half years since September 11, the United States has witnessed one of the greatest expansions of executive authority in its history, at the expense of the constitutionally mandated separation of powers. …
New York Review of Books – The Universities in Trouble, By Andrew Delbanco “Since the financial meltdown began to accelerate last summer, the world has changed utterly for colleges and universities just as it has for everyone who had not been stashing cash under the mattress. Along with failing banks, auto manufacturers, and insurance companies, …
Background Paper: How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, April 2009 “Households and businesses in a modern industrial economy like that of the United States emit a number of different greenhouse gases through a wide variety of activitiesany or all of which might be regulated under a mitigation program. The Environmental Protection Agency …
News release: “he Financial Stability Oversight Board (Oversight Board) today issued its second quarterly report to Congress on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA). The report covers the period January 1 to March 31, 2009. The report highlights the oversight activities of the Oversight Board during the quarterly period. It also presents the Oversight Board’s …
WSJ: The government confirmed the following list of the 19 banks undergoing stress tests. WSJ: “The U.S. government may end up acquiring a significant ownership stake in banks as it works to stabilize the financial system, according to a draft report from top regulators — the starkest acknowledgment yet of the extent to which the …
Federal Reserve Board: “A white paper describing the process and methodologies employed by the federal banking supervisory agencies in their forward-looking capital assessment of large U.S. bank holding companies was published on Friday. The white paper is intended to assist analysts and other interested members of the public in understanding the results of the Supervisory …
News release: “The Federal Reserve System on [April 23, 2009] published the annual financial statements for the combined Federal Reserve Banks, the 12 individual Federal Reserve Banks, the limited liability companies (LLCs) that were created in 2008 to respond to strains in financial markets, and the Board of Governors for the years ended December 31, …
News release: “The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will make its entire Bird Strike database available on a public website this Friday, April 24. Portions of the database have been publicly available since the information was first collected in 1990, but the public will now be able to access all of the database’s fields. The FAA …
News release: ” Employers took 2,933 mass layoff actions in March that resulted in the separation of 299,388 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a …
News release: “The likelihood of customers switching banks increases by up to three times after their bank merges with or is acquired by another financial institution, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Bank Mergers and Acquisitions Report…The report examines the drivers of customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction with their new banks following mergers that …
