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News release: “Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in July suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Some indicators of labor market conditions have shown further improvement in recent months, but the unemployment rate remains elevated. Household spending and business fixed investment advanced, and the housing sector has […]The post Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement appeared first on beSpacific.

Via LLRX.com – Ouch! Text to speech is also AWOL from THIS year’s Paperwhite from Amazon David Rothman’s review of the newest Kindle Paperwhite E Ink reader from Amazon highlights that the device is still missing text to speech – among the very features Jeff Bezos touted when he unveiled the second Kindle in 2009. […]The post New on LLRX – Text to speech is also AWOL from THIS year’s Paperwhite from Amazon appeared first on beSpacific.

OIG Report No. 2013-AE-B-012: Board Should Strengthen Controls over the Handling of  the Federal Open Market Committee Meeting Minutes - August 27, 2013. “…Office of Inspector General’s report on the subject audit….objectives were to evaluate the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System’s (Board’s) processes for distributing Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes to Federal […]The post IG Audit – Federal Reserve Board Board Controls over Handling of Federal Open Market Committee Meeting Minutes appeared first on beSpacific.

CRS – Rebuilding Household Wealth: Implications for Economic Recovery – Craig K. Elwell, Specialist in Macroeconomic Policy, September 13, 2013 “The pace of economic recovery from the 2007-2009 recession has been historically slow. Over four years of recovery, the annual rate of growth of real gross domestic product (GDP) has averaged 2%, well below the […]The post Rebuilding Household Wealth: Implications for Economic Recovery appeared first on beSpacific.

News release: “Sixteen percent of the U.S. civilian noninstitutional population age 15 and over (39.6 million people) provide unpaid eldercare, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Nearly one-fourth of eldercare providers engage in unpaid eldercare on a given day, spending an average of 3.2 hours providing this care. These estimates are averages for […]The post Unpaid Eldercare in the United States: 2011-2012 Summary appeared first on beSpacific.

Backer, Larry Catá and Haddad, Nabih and Teraoka, Tomonori and Wang, Keren, Democratizing International Business and Human Rights by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation: The Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the U.N. Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights from the Bottom Up (September 14, 2013). Available at SSRN “With the June 2011 endorsement of the U.N. […]The post Democratizing International Business and Human Rights by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation appeared first on beSpacific.

“Between 2009 and 2012, the federal government recorded the largest budget deficits relative to the size of the economy since 1946, causing federal debt to soar. Federal debt held by the public is now about 73 percent of the economy’s annual output, or gross domestic product (GDP). That percentage is higher than at any point […]The post The 2013 Long-Term Budget Outlook appeared first on beSpacific.

Ellen Nakashima – Washington Post: “A federal surveillance court on Tuesday released a declassified opinion upholding the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s sweeping collection of billions of Americans’ phone records for counterterrorism purposes. The gathering of “all call detail records” from phone companies is justified as long as the government can show that it […]The post Declassified FISA Court Opinion Released – Addresses Legality of Phone Metadata Collection appeared first on beSpacific.

Focus on manager’s role could spark improvement in companies’ ability to manage change “While employers believe a majority of their change management programs succeed initially, a new survey by global professional services company Towers Watson reveals that only one-quarter of organizations are able to keep the momentum going over the long term. The survey blames […]The post Only One-Quarter of Employers Sustaining Gains From Change Management Initiatives appeared first on beSpacific.

Executive Office of the President, September 2013 “Five years ago this week, a financial crisis unlike any in generations rocked Wall Street, turning a recession that was already hammering Main Street into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In the months before President Obama took office, the economy was shrinking at a rate […]The post White House Report – The Financial Crisis: Five Years Later appeared first on beSpacific.

BIS Working Papers: Order Flow and the Real: Indirect Evidence of the Effectiveness of Sterilized Interventions Interventions and inflation expectations in an inflation targeting economy The impact of pre-announced day-to-day interventions on the Colombian exchange rate On central bank interventions in the Mexican peso/dollar foreign exchange market Asymmetric effects of FOREX intervention using intraday data: […]The post Bank for International Settlements – 5 Working Papers on Interventions appeared first on beSpacific.