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Nuclear Loan Guarantees Another Taxpayer Bailout Ahead?, March 2009. Advocates of nuclear power are now promoting a nuclear renaissance based on claims that a new generation of reactors will produce relatively cheap electricity while solving threats posed by global climate change. The industry has proposed building almost 30 new nuclear reactors, with some calling for …
US Fact Sheet in Advance of G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting March 11, 2009, Economic Recovery and Financial Reform: “The G-20 countries together must take aggressive action on two fronts first, to ensure economic recovery and restart global growth, and second to reform supervisory and regulatory framework to prevent economic crises …
An HSUS Report: Human Health Implications of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture “In 1951, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the addition of penicillin and tetracycline to chicken feed as growth promoters, encouraging pharmaceutical companies to mass-produce antibiotics for animal agriculture. By the 1970s, nearly 100% of all birds commercially raised for …
Nicolas Rapp, Art Director for the multimedia and graphic department at AP, posted a link to one of his many outstanding infographics of special value to financial researchers. As noted on his site, since November 2008 he has been tracking the financial sector bailout, and the resulting infographic, [Flash application developed by Sean McDade], is …
Joint Committee on Taxation: JCX-20-09 (March 09, 2009) List Of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions 2008-2020
New York Times: New Has the Economy Hit Bottom Yet? “And when we do hit bottom this year or years from now how will we know? Theres no easy answer, but stocks, home prices and consumer spending are valuable indicators.” Related postings on financial system
New York Times: Times Are Tough, and Libraries Are Thriving “People are flocking to libraries after forsaking Barnes & Noble or ditching their HBO service and subscriptions to Netflix, library officials said, because libraries books, DVDs and CDs have a significant advantage: They are free. Some people are showing up at libraries for the first …
News release: “he Federal Election Commission has added a new page to its website to aid compliance with the lobbyist bundling disclosure provisions of the Honest Leadership and Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA). The new rules require disclosure of contributions bundled by lobbyists and registrants as of March 19 and of those bundled by the …
News release: “n a filing today with the federal District Court for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice submitted a new standard for the governments authority to hold detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. The definition does not rely on the Presidents authority as Commander-in-Chief independent of Congresss specific authorization. It draws …
News release: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today won the fifth annual Rosemary Award for the worst Freedom of Information Act performance by a federal agency. The FBIs reports to Congress show that the Bureau is unable to find any records in response to two-thirds of its incoming FOIA requests on average over the …
Medicare and Medicaid: CMS and State Efforts to Interact with the Indian Health Service and Indian Tribes, GAO-08-724, July 11, 2008 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Navy Programs’ Compliance with DOD’s Federated Business Enterprise Architecture Needs to Be Adequately Demonstrated, GAO-08-972, August 07, 2008
CBO Testimony: Statement of Terry M. Dinan Senior Advisor – The Distributional Consequences of a Cap-and-Trade Program for CO2 Emissions before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, U.S. House of Representatives, March 12, 2009. “One option for reducing emissions in a cost-effective manner is to establish a carefully designed cap-and-trade program. Under such …
