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“The International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IWG) presented the Santiago Principles to the International Monetary Fund’s policy-guiding International Monetary and Financial Committee on October 11, 2008. The IWG made public the set of 24 voluntary Principles and related explanatory material and announced it has established a Formation Committee to explore the creation of …
Alex Patelis, Head of International Economics, Merrill Lynch; and Daniel Tenegauzer, Head of Global Currency Strategy, Merrill Lynch, at the Washington Federal Press Center Briefing on “The State of the Global Economy and Foreign Exchange,” Friday, October 10, 2008, Transcript Related postings on financial system
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Sunday announced its approval of the application and notice under sections 3 and 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act by Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, California, to acquire Wachovia Corporation and its subsidiary banks, Wachovia Bank, National Association, both of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Wachovia Bank …
DoD Fact Sheet: Update on Sodium Dichromate Exposure at Qarmat Ali Water Treatment Plant in 2003 (for Soldiers) 2008, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. For more information about Chromium VI, please visit: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Toxicological Profiles
TRAC news release: “…the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday turned over to TRAC thousands of pages of agency statistics on audits of all types, including individual, corporate, partnership and S corporation audits. A strongly worded June 13, 2008 ruling issued by Judge Marsha Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington …
CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room: “The automatic declassification provisions of Executive Order 12958, as amended, require the declassification of nonexempt historically-valuable records 25 years old or older. By 31 December 2006 all agencies were to have completed the review of all hardcopy documents determined to be historically valuable (designated as “permanent” by the agency and …
Intelligence Community Directive Number 704, Personnel Security Standards and Procedures Governing Eligibility for Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and Other Controlled Access Program Information (Effective 01 October 2008): “This Intelligence Community Directive (lCD) establishes Director of National Intelligence (DNI) personnel security policy governing eligibility for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and information protected within …
Stateline.org: “A week after President Bush signed a $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street, the financial crisis has deepened in many state capitals with tight credit markets and new, pessimistic budget figures that pose the biggest threat to states fiscal health in 25 years. Grim-faced state officials, seeing reports from the first three months …
News release: “The Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) program produces estimates of health insurance coverage for states and all counties. In July 2005, SAHIE released the first nation-wide set of county-level estimates on the number of people without health insurance coverage for all ages and those under 18 years old. In October …
FOX News: “The World Bank Group’s computer network one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned. It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the bank confirm …
Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Terrorist Assets Report 2007: “The Department of the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is the lead office for implementing sanctions with respect to assets of international terrorist organizations and terrorism-supporting countries. OFAC implements these sanctions as part of its general mission to administer …
New York Times: “A legislative committee investigating Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican vice presidential candidate, issued a report Friday night that found she unlawfully abused her authority by firing the states public safety commissioner. While the report concluded that a family grudge was not the only reason for dismissing the commissioner, Walter Monegan, …
