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... Labels and Consequences: The Failure of Our Fiscal Language 1 Fiscal Language and the Fiscal Crisis 3 2 Taxes, Spending, and the Size of Government 15 3 Fun and Games with Budget Deficits 53 ... FISCAL LANGUAGE Language, the greatest human invention, helps us to understand the world, but also to misunderstand it We use it to inform other people, but also to deceive them It connotes more ... DictionaryThe Fiscal Crisis and Its Roots in Fiscal Language The United States is presently moving toward a possible catastrophicfiscal collapse We may not get there, but the risk is unmistakableand growing

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 14:25

... Supreme Court jurisprudence in, 162–168 United States v Security Industrial Bank, 204 United States v Security Industrial Bank, 40 United States v Whiting Pools, 200 “unmistakable clarity” standard, ... Agency Cases Tax Cases United States Trustee Cases Sovereignty Cases Secured Credit Cases Bankruptcy Interests Summary Learning from Amici 210 13.1 The Contributions of Amici 13.2 The Court’s Own ... Outcomes in Secured Creditor Cases Pro-Bankruptcy Outcomes, by Federal Interest in Case The Supreme Court’s Bankruptcy Cases Papers of the Justices (By Case) Papers of the Justices (By Justice) References

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2020, 10:06

... Ireland , the Orkney and Shetland Islands, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Herbrides, and the Isle of Wight, Scilly Islands, Lundy Island, the Channel Islands and many other offshore islands. • ... Northern Ireland”. • The UK is the member of the European Union (EU). Trang 9The British Isles• The British Isles * consists of: Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales); the whole of Ireland ... 1606, the first flag of the union was created. • The red cross of the England was superimposed on the white cross of Scotland on the blue background of the Scotland flag. Trang 15C History and

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2020, 05:31

... international supply-demand shifts, such as changes in the global oil demand and supply conditions, responses to geopolitics, institutional arrangements (such as the OPEC), and the dynamics of the financial ... http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_fut_s1_d.htm Futures prices are used in place of spot prices for the following reasons First, futures prices are the major prices in the crude oil market The NYMEX crude oil futures contract ... GARCH model since the evidence of heteroskedastic covariances among other financial assets5 has been well documented in numerous previous studies This study hypothesizes that the conditional correlation

Ngày tải lên: 01/02/2020, 21:55

... comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness ... measures such as productivity.12 These surveys are often time- and resource-intensive to complete and must be updated periodically col-At the same time, the ubiquity of digital transactions is ... Current Establishment Survey, the Quarterly sus of Employment and Wages, the Current Population Survey, the Decennial Census, the American Community Survey, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey,

Ngày tải lên: 28/12/2021, 10:16

... procedures and controls used by the reporting institutions to identify, monitor, and report violations and suspicious illicit activities; and assist in the assessment of the adequacy of anti-money laundering ... tainted by the Truthers, since these reports reveal strange and suspicious financial activity that Trang 22raises very serious questions.One of the few studies of Bergman’s findings was done by the Federal ... assist Reserve Banks in identifying suspicious or suspected criminal activity occurring at or through supervised financial institutions; provide the information necessary to assess the procedures

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:31

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Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... bio-based chemicals have been assessed for numerous products/processes through the use of life-cycle assessments (LCAs) LCAs are comprehensive inventories of inputs and outputs comparing process and ... and fossil fuel inputs and decreased waste in chemical processes However, the degree of such benefits from currently-used liquid biofuels is debated Numerous studies have been performed assessing ... chemical and liquid fuel industries expanded substantially during the 2004–07 period These industries increasingly use enzymes, micro-organisms, and renewable resources in the production of fuels and

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 22:06

... analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE U.S NATIONAL SECURITY Support RAND Purchase ... objectives In carrying out its mission, the Institute consults broadly with representatives from private industry, institutions of higher education, and other nonprofit institutions Inquiries regarding ... data requests from the researchers and decisionmakers represented, as well as responses from the statistical agencies represented, about priorities and practicalities Cutting across these specific

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... newborn, and child deaths These initiatives are largely focused on sub-Saharan Africa, where the greatest burdens of these diseases as well as maternal and child mortality exist, but—in the case of ... Hunger and Food Security Initiative) aims to prevent and treat undernutrition in coordination with the GHI (since U S funding for “nutrition” is counted in both the GHI and the Feed the Future ... is counted as part of the PEPFAR budget and the U S is the Global Fund’s largest contributor While the Global Fund does not focus explicitly on MNCH, many of its programs and activities support

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... services as counselors and educators for new patients as their services have been successfully utilized in numerous PEPFAR-funded programs PEPFAR should allow for “topping-up” of salaries for public ... these questions and should fund, prioritize and fast track research in these areas through Public Health Evaluations and other research and evaluation mechanisms 2 As increasing numbers of HIV-infected ... HIV/AIDS activities and strategies such as Global Fund applications and general health sector plans are required for rapid and comprehensive scale-up and ongoing sustainability of PMTCT services National

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... cost is the sum of the average settlement costs, some other expenses such as vaccination and sanitation (sometimes called nonchargeable expenses), and processing costs Turkey Contracts During the ... per-capita consumption and more-or-less constant prices suggest the possibility of a demand shift caused by changing consumer preferences The poultry industry measures significant im-provements in ... com-panies The crux of the growers' complaints about tournaments is the issue of the group-composition risk Under a tournament system, consecutive flocks grown by the same grower and with similar

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... dioxide emissions from biomass fuels were not included in this study Combustion of biomass fuels also emits small amounts of GHG s other than CO As these gases not fit the same role in the global ... 2006; NCASI, 2005) Thus, this study focuses on carbon dioxide emitted from the fossil fuels and grid electricity consumed in the manufacturing process For purposes of assessing energy use and related ... of these plants in the Chinese industry s pulp supply chain sell some electricity back to the grid As part of the study, a sensitivity analysis was conducted to assess the importance of these...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... explains, if it does not excuse, some of the querulousness and studied discourtesies with which the Japanese press for some months treated President Wilson, the United States in general and its relation ... provincial capitals must give as much authority as possible to the districts, and the districts to the communities Officials must be chosen by and from the local districts and everything must be done ... to the Consortium laid emphasis upon its deterrent function and upon the stimulation it has given to Chinese bankers to finance public utilities And it is the merest justice to Mr Stevens, the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 11:20

... amount (“breaks the buck”) the fund must dissolve and sell its assets, which may include AAA assets In turn the sale of AAA assets affects other institutions Conservative investors may have thought ... structure that was based upon the housing/mortgage sector This focus is upon the crisis of the 198 0s, in particular the agriculture crisis The policy issues are: How should creditors, banks and ... Goldman-Sachs and hedge funds These purchasers finance the purchases by short term bank borrowing Securities firms and hedge funds may buy Credit Default Swaps (CDS) from companies such as AIG as insurance...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 18:49

... be found Thus the military needs to understand the tradeo s and risks involved with any assumptions about its capacity to perform such duties as the long war unfolds The Army Should Continue to ... Middle East and Persian Gulf Chronic Serious insurgencies and unrest around the world that drain Insurgencies/ the resources of the U. S and its allies and decrease regime Instability legitimacy The ... of buying time for the United States and its allies until the United States can return its full attention to the long war U. S leaders could also choose to capitalize on the “Sustained Shia-Sunni...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20

... BOG These accounts also provide estimates of holding gains and losses for assets such as real estate and corporate equities, including assets held indirectly through mutual funds, pension funds, ... personal and business saving—is famous in economics (it is often called Denison s law, from Denison, 1958) Unfortunately, it does not successfully withstand serious empirical scrutiny.22 Figure ... standard definitions of the personal saving rate Because the decline manifests itself in all standard measures and cannot be easily explained by measurement issues, our conclusion is that yes,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... limited assets Leaders, bank accounts, linkages Variation of the usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Societal/ Organizational Vulnerabilities R aThe nature of the nuclear threats and the likely ... choices and addresses a number of specific issues that affect those choices Chapter Six summarizes our conclusions Chapter Two NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND U. S SECURITY— BACK TO BASICS In addressing the ... and the United States and the rest of NATO suggest the danger of further friction in the future 26 Future Roles of U. S Nuclear Forces: Implications for U. S Strategy So far, there has been little...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... Chapter this thesis assesses the barriers to digester development in the United States Finally, the conclusions section assesses the current level of biogas development in the U. S. , lessoins learned ... digestion systems? In answering this question I look at the current culture and barriers in the U. S and apply successful European strategies to this end Ultimately, this thesis applies the outcome ... WoodIWood Waste and Municipal Solid WasteILandfill Gas Yet this "Other Biomass" category includes "agricultural byproducts/crops, sludge waste, tires, and other biomass solids, liquids, and gasses".16In...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2015, 21:23

... about this issue, the study was done It gives some reasons for people s answers The paper is finished by researching young audience who are usually the fastest to update new music and are the ... with NEU s student s thoughts Research question: What s “music cover” and how NEU s students define it? How does music cover influence Vietnamese music? What NEU s students think about music cover ... Data analysis and discussion In Literature review, the report reviews on previous studies and shows what the achieved points and the weakness in each study are After that, it states personal opinion...

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