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Official Google Blog: “Today, the Google speech team (part of Google Research) is launching the Google Elections Video Search gadget, our modest contribution to the electoral process. With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube’s Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget you can search …
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued an emergency order to enhance investor protections against “naked” short selling in the securities of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and primary dealers at commercial and investment banks.”
Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration May Face Resource and Other Challenges in Developing a System to Screen All Cargo Transported on Passenger Aircraft, GAO-08-959T, July 15, 2008 Broadcasting to Cuba: Weaknesses in Contracting Practices Reduced Visibility into Selected Award Decisions, GAO-08-764, July 11, 2008 Department of Labor: Case Studies from Ongoing Work Show Examples in …
News release: “Government support of biofuel production in OECD countries is costly, has a limited impact on reducing greenhouse gases and improving energy security, and has a significant impact on world crop prices, according to a new study of policies to promote greater production and use of biofuel in OECD countries. OECDs Economic Assessment of …
News release: “EPA has released the final Integrated Science Assessment for Oxides of NitrogenHealth Criteria as announced in the July 11, 2008 Federal Register. This is EPAs latest evaluation of the scientific literature on the potential adverse human health effects resulting from exposures to oxides of nitrogen, particularly nitrogen dioxide or NO2. There are significant …
FDIC Statistics at a Glance: Historical Trends As of March 31, 2008, Last Updated 05/29/2008.
“The Treasury Department completed mass disbursements of stimulus payments this week. In total, 112.4 million stimulus payments to Americans households over the past eleven weeks, so far injecting $91 billion into the U.S. economy. Payments will continue to be sent out in small batches through the remainder of the year. To ensure that all Americans …
News release: “To help address challenges in the housing and financial markets, we announced temporary steps to help stabilize them and increase confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These two enterprises play a central role in our housing finance system, so Treasury Paulson has worked with the Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke so that the …
News release: Chairman Ben S. Bernanke – Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, July 15, 2008 Chairman Dodd, Senator Shelby, and members of the Committee, I am pleased to present the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Policy Report to the Congress. The U.S. economy and …
News release: “A proposed Committee report on the investigations into the death of Corporal Patrick Tillman and the capture of Private Jessica Lynch discloses important new details about the incidents, but could not resolve the key issue of what senior officials knew because the investigation was frustrated by a near universal lack of recall. The …
Iran’s Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities Cover: Iran’s Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities by Keith Crane, Rollie Lal, Jeffrey Martini “Iran is one of the United States’ most important foreign policy concerns. It has also been an extraordinarily difficult country with which to engage. Ironically, while the leadership has been hostile to the United States, …
“FTC Guide to the Antitrust Laws: This plain-language guide is written for consumers and business people with questions about the antitrust laws. The Guide summarizes the core laws that ban unfair business practices and prevent mergers that harm consumers, and explains how antitrust cases are brought by U.S., state, and international authorities, as well as …
