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FASB Lobs a Balance-Sheet Bombshell: Losses tied to banks’ off-balance-sheet subprime-mortgage investments have reached into the hundreds of billions of dollars and caused some real soul searching among the nation’s top accounting group, The Financial Accounting Standards Board, which has moved quickly to radically alter the rules for how banks must account for so-called qualified...; Tags: bank, FINANCE, Financial Accounting Standards Board, REFORM; Research articles 2008-06-01
Building a populist coalition in Texas, 1892-1896: THAN A HALF CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE C. VANN WOODWARD argued that the success of the People' s or Populist Party of the 1890s hinged on construction of three somewhat improbable coalitions of the dispossessed: southerners and westerners, farmers and laborers, and blacks and poor whites in the South. (1)...; Tags: American, C., Charles, Cross, Democratic Party, East, Farmers, Gregg, H., Hill, History, James, John, Journal, L., Labor, M., Martin, Miller, Politics, Reform, Thomas, Turner, W., William; Research articles 2008-05-01
From Stabilization to Marketization: The Political Economy of Reforms in Azerbaijan: Abstract: The author analyzes the process of reform started in post-Soviet Azerbaijan from the political economy perspective. He reviews the literature on the political economy of transition and presents the political-economic history of transition in Azerbaijan in three stages based on political developments. The author introduces and applies relevant indexes...; Tags: Democracy, FINANCE, financial, Government, IMF, inflation, liberalization, NBA, Nelson, president, REFORM, SOFTWARE, stabilization; Research articles 2008-04-01
The Waxman cometh: but he doth not succeed: CONSIDERING that Time magazine once described Henry Waxman as having "all the panache of your parents' dentist," it's hard to imagine how he became the most feared member of Congress. The Californian is serving his 17th consecutive term, representing one of the country's safest Democratic districts (it includes West Hollywood...; Tags: Democrat, Government, Litigation, REFORM, Republican, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2008-01-28
While we're at it.: * In May 2006, James Piereson published a remarkable article in Commentary, "Lee Harvey Oswald and the Liberal Crack-Up." The article has now been expanded into a book, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution Encounter. Briefly put, the argument is that the assassination of John E Kennedy...; Tags: America, atheist, Bible, Church, Government, NYT, poverty, president, priest, REFORM, Webster University; Research articles 2008-01-01

Globalization and Pension Reform in Latin America: ABSTRACT While financial globalization has created powerful incentives for Latin American governments to privatize old age pension systems, reliance on short-term capital flows has also constrained the ability of cash-strapped governments to enact that reform. Analysis of the technocratic process of pension reform in Argentina and Brazil provides evidence. Instead...; Tags: Argentina, Argentine, Benefits, Brazil, Brazilian, financial, globalization, Government, Madrid, pension, Pension, privatization, Privatization, REFORM, SOFTWARE, STUDIES, World Bank; Research articles 2007-12-01
Congress moves on bills aimed at helping homeowners.: The House and Senate are moving swiftly in the face of rising home foreclosures to give homeowners options to refinance out of unaffordable mortgages. Last Tuesday, the House passed H.R. 1852, the Expanding American Homeownership Act, by a vote of 348 to 72. Last...; Tags: FINANCE, homeowner, Mortgages, reform, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-09-24
Sisyphus in The Senate: Sen. Ron Wyden, the Oregon democrat, has not received the memo explaining that Congress can accomplish nothing in an election year or the year before one. He calls himself the Senate's designated driver, the one not running for president, so he has time to try legislating. He also is the...; Tags: FINANCE, Reform, Taxes, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-07-16
Restructuring U.S. federal financial regulation: 1. INTRODUCTION The debate over U.S. federal bank regulatory structure goes back for nearly a century. Although studies, commissions and committees of banking scholars, and high-level government officials and industry practitioners have been common, change has come only sporadically. (1) For the most part, the U.S. financial regulatory system...; Tags: agency, bank, banking, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, M., Peek, Reform, Regulation, regulation, regulator, Rose, Supervision, supervision, U.S., Wall; Research articles 2007-07-01
When is an auditor really a regulator? The metamorphosis of the Australian Universities Quality Agency: implications for Australian higher education public policy: The Australian Universities Quality Agency AUQA is a company owned by national, state and territory Ministers of Education. It is not a de jure regulatory authority. This article argues, however, that AUQA performs an important de facto public regulatory role in respect of the performance of various institutions, and that...; Tags: accountability, agency, audit, education, FINANCE, OECD, performance, QA, Quality, Reform, regulation, regulator, standards; Research articles 2007-07-01
The "desert" model for sentencing: its influence, prospects, and alternatives: INTRODUCTION THE DECLINE OF THE REHABILITATIVE ETHOS IN SENTENCING THEORY in the post-1960s is a story that has been told often (see, for example, Allen, 1981) and need not be rehearsed here. * Penal treatment programs, once tested for their effectiveness, showed scant success--or at most, succeeded only in...; Tags: Andrew, Anthony, aspiration, conception, conduct, disposition, Electronic Data Systems Corp., fairness, punishment, REFORM, Richard, sanction, severity, University of Oxford; Research articles 2007-06-22
Saving the day; Pension prospects.(Stingy Britain's pension woes): Young workers will be poor when they retire unless they save more BRITAIN'S state-pension system is known to be tight-fisted. Just how stingy it is emerges from a report this week from the OECD: the promise made to today's young workers is the least...; Tags: Benefits, Britain, OECD, pension, reform, worker; Research articles 2007-06-09
Pensions: work longer for less and save more, says OECD: PARIS AFP — Pension reforms in rich countries mean that retirement benefits will be 15-25 percent less than would have been paid, and most people will have to work for longer and save more, the OECD said on Thursday. But although pension reforms in 16 of the 30 OECD...; Tags: Benefits, OECD, pension, REFORM; Research articles 2007-06-07
U.S. Congress seeks to revamp patent process: WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Congress in late April introduced into legislation The Patent Reform Act of 2007, a bill aimed at helping the filing process and to ease the financial burden to companies that infringe on existing patents. The Senate bill is cosponsored by Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin...; Tags: patent, reform, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-06-01
European Commission plans global campaign to boost wine sector abroad: BRUSSELS AFP — European Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel is planning a massive global campaign to promote European wine, hoping to boost a sector suffering from overproduction and New World competition. "In the project of wine sector reform, which I will present to EU member states on July 4,...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Europe, European Commission, reform, wine; Research articles 2007-05-19
World Bank supports water reforms in Morocco.: M2 PRESSWIRE-2 May 2007-WORLD BANK: World Bank supports water reforms in MoroccoC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01052007 WASHINGTON - The World Bank's Board of Directors approved today the Morocco Water Sector Development Policy Loan totaling US$100 million. The Development...; Tags: FINANCE, reform, World Bank; Research articles 2007-05-02
SCANDAL MONGER: GRAND ALLEGATIONS: IT tickles Scandal Monger's wry sense of humour that the latest company to feature in the plethora of official US investigations in to stock options fixing is Take-Two Interactive Software - that's right, the business behind the computer game Grand Theft Auto. The Securities and Exchange Commission SEC...; Tags: Banking, financial, reform, SEC, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.; Research articles 2007-04-08
Harrisburg digging its way out of the muck: AND NOW AN UPDATE on my 2007 Race to Reform, a contest between the state House and Senate to see which is quicker to attack the greed and clandestine ways so deeply ingrained in the Legislature. As month three of the race opens, the Senate leads, but the House...; Tags: Harrisburg, Leadership, REFORM, SALES, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-03-05
Who'll win the '07 Race to Reform? Maybe you.: IS A NEW DAY dawning over the longtime ethically challenged wasteland of self-serving pols known as the Pennsylvania Legislature? Does new leadership in both chambers and a new session with 55 (of 253) new members translate into new beginnings? Is there a path to regain public trust in an institution...; Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Leadership, Reform, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-01-05
Applying good governance concept to promote local economic development: contribution and challenge: Abstract This paper examines the application of good governance concept in the area of local economic development and focuses on contribution and challenge issues. The paper includes a review of major concepts of the good governance, the role of government, and the importance of public management reform. On the...; Tags: accountability, Administration, FINANCE, Government, M., OECD, Reform, regulation, researcher, SOFTWARE, World Bank; Research articles 2007-01-01