Volcker and Reform Defeated
by Stephen Michael Apatow
I would like to extend a special thanks EducationNews.org [1] for facilitating international peer reviewed discussion of subject matter associated with the global economic crisis.
As noted in the paper “Financial Market Legitimacy Critical for Sustainable Global Recovery” [2], containment of the damage caused by regulatory failures facilitated by the Glass-Steagall repeal and [...]
Start With Science
Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey — In a fiscally responsible budget that emphasizes cost containment, management efficiencies and program savings, the President’s proposed $1.1 billion budget for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in fiscal year 2011 reflects his commitment to use science as the basis for natural resource management decisions.
“Science [...]
GDP for the Fourth Quarter of 2009
Statement by Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer on the Advance Estimate of GDP for the Fourth Quarter of 2009
The latest GDP report is the most positive news to date on the economy. The data show that the total output of the U.S. economy increased strongly in the fourth quarter [...]
Strange Matters
Department Of Energy, Washington, D.C. — The result from a years-long effort at DOE’s Jefferson Lab (known as the G-Zero experiment) to measure strange matter in the proton has revealed that strange matter doesn’t magnetize the proton or distort its charge distribution all that much. The effect is surprising small, since many of the early [...]