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Follow up to July 8, 2008 posting, SEC Examinations Find Shortcomings in Credit Rating Agencies’ Practices and Disclosure to Investors, today’s article from the WSJ (requires subscription – letter to SEC linked below is available free): S&P Resists SEC Ratings Plan – “Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services pushed back against Securities and Exchange Commission proposals …
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR): Government of Iraq Increasingly Funding Iraqi Security Forces Infrastructure Development, but Substantial U.S. Support Remains, July 26, 2008 “A congressional committee raised concerns that significant U.S.-appropriated money from the Iraq Security Forces Fund (ISFF) continues to be spent on infrastructure projects related to developing the …
Follow up to postings on U.S. attorney firings, today’s release of a report by the DOJ OIG, An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General, July 28, 2008 (124 pages, PDF) “This investigation examined allegations that Monica Goodling, who worked in the Office …
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR): Key Recurring Management Issues Identified in Audits of Iraq Reconstruction Efforts, July 27, 2008 “As of July 2008, the U.S. Congress had appropriated approximately $50 billion for all relief and reconstruction activities. As of July 31, 2008, SIGIR and its predecessor (CPA-IG) have issued 122 …
New York Times, July 28, 2008 – Worried Banks Sharply Reduce Business Loans Federal Reserve Board Current Survey: “The April 2008 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices addressed changes in the supply of, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three months.1 Special questions in the survey …
Country Profile: Federal Republic of Nigeria, July 2008 Country Profile: United Mexican States, July 2008
Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries – How Deterrable Are They Likely to Be?, July 2008, by David Ochmanek, Lowell H. Schwartz. “The United States and other members of the international community are striving to convince North Korea, Iran, and other states to forgo the development of nuclear weapons. If they do not succeed, the consequences for U.S. …
Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems, Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6, U.S. Climate Change Science Program And the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, July 2008 [284 pages, PDF]. “This report focuses on impacts of global climate change, especially impacts on three broad dimensions of …
Failed Bank Information – First National Bank of Nevada, Reno, NV, July 25, 2008: “This Bank was closed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Subsequently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Receiver. All deposits have been assumed by Mutual of Omaha Bank, Omaha, NB. Failed Bank Information – First …
News release: “Even as the last of the stimulus checks that have blunted the worst effects of the economic downturn are cashed, the economy remains poised on the brink of what could be a prolonged period of economic stagnation. According to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), Congress and …
Via The Memory Hole, “On a subpage of their Freedom of Info Act website, the Defense Department today has posted 127 pages of documents concerning embedded media. The file may be downloaded here: DOD FOIA Reading Room.” Related article from the New York Times, July 26, 2008 – 4,000 U.S. Deaths, and a Handful of …
Government Performance: 2007 Federal Managers Survey on Performance and Management Issues: (GAO-08-1036SP, July 2008), an E-supplement to GAO-08-1026T, GAO-08-1036SP, July 24, 2008 Government Performance: Lessons Learned for the Next Administration on Using Performance Information to Improve Results, GAO-08-1026T, July 24, 2008 Nuclear Material: DOE Needs to Take Action to Reduce Risks Before Processing Additional Nuclear …
