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Congress's Ethics Ranks Only Better Than Car Salespeople   
(Tuesday - January 15, 2013)
Source: About.com - A recent Gallup poll surveyed American perception of the honesty and ethical standards of people in different fields. Nurses ranked highest; car salespeople lowest. Members of Congress were rated just barely above car salespeople...
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Weekly Highlights January,10 2013   
(Friday - January 11, 2013)
Source: Governance & Accountability Institute - Source: Hank Boerner, Chairman of the Governance & Accountability Institute - Trajectory – a path a "body" (such as a comet or bullet) follows, moving under a given force, says the Oxford Dictionary. Think of the "body" as an...[more]
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China revises Q3 capital account deficit data   
(Wednesday - December 26, 2012) Associated Profiles : State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) Investment Company (China)
- Xinhua News Agency - The current account surplus in the third quarter was revised to 70.8 billion U.S. dollars from the previous 70.6 billion U.S. dollars, according to the îState Administration of Foreign Exchangeî....
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Weekly Highlights December 13, 2012   
(Friday - December 14, 2012)
Source: Governance & Accountability Institute - The Federal Reserve made it plain on Wednesday that job creation had become its primary focus, announcing that it planned to continue suppressing interest rates so long as the unemployment rate remained above 6.5...[more]
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Weekly Highlights December,05 2012   
(Wednesday - December 05, 2012)
Source: Governance & Accountability Institute - House Republicans offered a counterproposal Monday in the heated battle to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, but it was quickly rebuffed by President Barack Obama's administration for not demanding more from...[more]
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Weekly Highlights November 29, 2012   
(Friday - November 30, 2012)
Source: Governance & Accountability Institute - President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases...[more]
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Weekly Highlights November 15, 2012   
(Tuesday - November 20, 2012)
Source: Governance & Accountability Institute - Obama Meets CEO’s as Fiscal Reckoning Nears ,U.S. to become world's largest oil producer before 2020, IEA says [Google+ Hangout] ,Al Gore calls on Barack Obama to 'act boldly' on climate change,It's a Bad Time To Be Rich,US...[more]
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Weekly Highlights October 26, 2012   
(Saturday - October 27, 2012)
Source: Governance & Accountability Institute - BSR Survey: Investors Aren’t Reading Those Wonderful Sustainability Reports;Survey Finds Companies Must Improve Communication of CSR Accomplishments; It’s plain for all to see, ESG research works ;Newsweek’s annual rankings...[more]
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Weekly Highlights October 11, 2012   
(Thursday - October 11, 2012)
Source: Governance & Accountability Institute - Study: Corporate Social Responsibility Engagements With U.S. Public Firms Yield Excess Return Of 4.4 Percent; Are Electric Cars Bad for the Environment?; Is sustainability here to stay' What retailers think; Why the Next...[more]
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Weekly Highlights september 27, 2012   
(Thursday - September 27, 2012)
- Motor City's Big 3: Leading The Way On Sustainability Reporting (Tuesday - September 25, 2012) Associated Profiles : Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. [more]
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