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How Convicts and Con Artists Receive New Federal Contracts: “The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee examines the Excluded Parties List System, a federal database intended to prevent persons and businesses ineligible to receive federal contracts due to past misconduct from receiving new awards. A GAO report…released at the hearing finds numerous examples of ineligible …
Peter Orszag – Discipline, Efficiency, Prosperity – Peter Orszag, Director: “Welcome to my first blog post at the Office of Management and Budget. In this blog, I want to open up OMB even more to the public and share with you what were doing to address the many challenges that we face as a nation. …
Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Overview Document – A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing Americas Promise, Office of Management and Budget, February 26, 2009 [146 pages, PDF], “provides a description of the Obama Administrations fiscal policies and major budgetary initiatives. This document is an overview of the full Fiscal Year 2010 Budget expected to be released …
LA Times: “President Obama and senior administration officials have begun receiving a daily CIA report on the global economic crisis in addition to briefings on terrorist threats and other national security issues, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said Wednesday. The CIA’s role in producing the report underscores the level of anxiety within the administration over …
H.R. 1106, Helping Families Save Their Homes Act February 25, 2009 – Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on February 23, 2008. “CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 1106 would increase direct spending by $7.6 billion over the 2009-2014 period, and would reduce direct spending by $14.9 billion over the 2009-2019 period. Enacting H.R 1106 …
News release: “The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released its latest mortgage fraud analysis – titled Filing Trends in Mortgage Loan Fraud – that shows suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed on suspected mortgage fraud increased 44 percent in the 12 months ending in June 2008 compared with the prior year.” Related postings on financial …
2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, February 25, 2009: “As we publish these reports, the Department of State remains mindful of both domestic and international scrutiny of the United States’ record. As President Obama recently made clear, “we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.” We do not consider views …
News release: “The federal bank regulatory agencies announced today that they will start conducting forward-looking economic assessments of large U.S. banking organizations as the Capital Assistance Program (CAP) gets underway. These assessments will be done on an interagency basis as a coordinated supervisory exercise to ensure they are carried out in a timely and consistent …
Economic Snapshot for February 2009 By Christian E. Weller, February 24, 2009: ” The U.S. economy is experiencing its worst recession in decades. Jobs and wealth losses are accelerating, contributing to sharp increases in families economic distress. This crisis was precipitated by a sharp drop in consumer spending, but also by a decline in business …
News release: “In an ongoing effort to deliver on swift implementation of the Obama Administration’s recovery, stability and affordability plans, the U.S. Department of the Treasury touted today the availability of an expanded tax break for first-time homebuyers a provision under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that will make up to …
News release: “…the U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the terms and conditions for the Capital Assistance Program (CAP). The CAP is a core element of the Administration’s Financial Stability Plan. The purpose of the CAP is to restore confidence throughout the financial system that the nation’s largest banking institutions have a sufficient capital …
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Technical Paper VI- Climate Change and Water “The importance of freshwater to our life support system is widely recognised, as can be seen clearly in the international context. Freshwater is indispensable for all forms of life and is needed, in large quantities, in almost all human activities. Climate, freshwater, …
