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American Securitization Forum Speech, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 9, 2009, James B. Lockhart III, Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency “The biggest challenge we face is the stabilization of the housing market. Declining prices will demand continued concentrated action by the public sector, including the new Obama Administration and its Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the …
News release: “The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) fell further in January. The index now stands at 96.6, down 1.0 percent from the December revised figure of 97.5, and down 18.6 percent from a year ago. The Employment Trends Index has recently been declining faster than at any time since the 1974 recession, said …
News release: “The United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on February 9, 2009, it submitted to the Honorable Judge Louis L. Stanton, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, the consent of Bernard L. Madoff to a proposed partial judgment imposing a permanent injunction and continuing relief previously imposed in …
Income of the Population 55 or Older, 2006 (released February 2009) “This report provides a broad income picture of a cross section of the population aged 55 or older, with special emphasis on income of the population aged 65 or older. The tabulations focus on the major sources and amounts of income in 2006, both …
WSJ: “Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to announce that the government will become a partner with the private sector to purchase banks’ troubled assets, according to people familiar with the matter. The plan for a so-called aggregator bank, a variation on a theme that Obama administration officials have wrestled with for weeks, is among …
FOIA Facts: President Obamas FOIA Memorandum and When Change Will Actually Occur – Scott A. Hodes notes the Obama administration’s immediate focus on FOIA, but reminds us that changing the ship of government requires numerous steps and constant vigilance to ensure change remains consistent and constant.
War About Terror – Civil Liberties and National Security After 9/11: A Council on Foreign Relations Working Paper, by Daniel B. Prieto, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and National Security, February 2009 “President Barack Obama, in one of his first moves in office, reversed some of the most controversial detention and interrogation policies of the …
“Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation…Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, while the oldest …
“In response to a letter from GAP and 9 other public interest organizations, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) sent a letter to GAP demonstrating his commitment to protect whistleblowers who disclose evidence of waste, fraud and abuse of bailout funds. In the letter, Special IG Neil Barofsky states: “One …
News release: “The SEC’s entire budget allocation is a disproportionately small amount in comparison to the agency’s mission. With often less than $900 million in hand and approximately 3,500 staff, the SEC is tasked with regulating tens of thousands of entities including public companies, investment advisers, broker-dealers, transfer agents, exchanges, credit rating agencies, and several …
News release: “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it has launched, on a six-month trial basis, a new monthly report: This Month in Futures Markets. The report, produced by the Commissions Office of the Chief Economist, will add transparency to the information the Commission provides the public concerning regulated futures markets by providing …
Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program – Back Issues available from 1996-2008, HTML Version (and PDF from 2001). Note – the Federal Depository Library Program website is now located as follows: “The FDLP Desktop serves as a centralized resource for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), which disseminates U.S. Government information to the American …
