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How American Families Deal with Financial Shock, Unemployment
A new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts, "Making Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment," examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks and how those ...
Risk Appetite On the Rise in U.S. Capital Markets: Fed Survey
Hedge fund and derivative investors are taking on more risk as aggressive monetary easing and an improving economy boost demand for higher-yielding securities, a Federal Reserve survey showed on ...
Insurance compliance work rarely operates at an entirely predictable pace. A carrier may be managing normal licensing and appointment activity...
End of Men in Power? It’s Not Even Close
It's spring 2013 – 50 years after Betty Friedan's explosive book launched feminism's "second wave," 41 years after Title IX, the equal-opportunity amendment banning sex discrimination in education, ...
Report: 1 in 5 Californians Lives in Flood Zone
California is suffering from one of its driest winters on record, but some statewide water managers are focusing on the opposite end of the precipitation spectrum — the one-in-five residents who ...
New Mexico Governor Signs Bill Limiting Spacecraft Liability
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez this week signed into law liability-waiving legislation aimed at saving the state's nearly quarter-billion-dollar investment in a futuristic spaceport and retaining ...
U.S. Encourages South Korea to Join Trans-Pacific Trade Talks
The United States would welcome South Korea joining negotiations on an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, a senior U.S. trade official said on Wednesday, as Washington continues to weigh Japan's bid ...
Fed Approves Process for Designating Nonbanks for Stricter Regulation
The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it had approved a final rule to clarify the process the new U.S. risk council will follow when it begins designating nonbank financial firms for ...
New Deadly Bird Flu Has Scientists Worried About Pandemic Risk
Genetic sequence data on a deadly strain of bird flu previously unknown in people show the virus has already acquired some mutations that might make it more likely to cause a human pandemic, ...