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... little over 1%. But these rates have recently been rising as concern is growing about the fiscal solvency of the Japanese government. The danger of any explicit default on this debt is minimal since it is all denominated in the Japanese currency, the yen. Any ... rates are low, so that annual interest payments on the debt is not a sizable fraction of total government spending. It is unlikely that US government spending will decline during the next decade, even though some of the short term spending ...

... of the US government when I discussed the ICRC customary law study and its methodology back in 2005, here, was that the US never seemed to be able to pull itself together administratively or bureaucratically to be able to respond in the sense of formal opinio ... agrees and disagrees with, measured and reasoned in tone, and very well researched. My congratulations to all the US government lawyers and staff who worked on this letter. My congratulations to John Bellinger and Jim Haynes for persevering ...

... with other G-7 governments, recently expanded its plan to restore confidence in the US banking system. Wielding the extraordinary discretion recently granted to it by Congress, the US government announced a plan to inject $250 billion of capital directly into the ... under the Troubled Asset Relief Program ("TARP") to purchase preferred stock and warrants for common stock of the nine US bank holding companies that are systemically important and of other healthy regional and community banks; The FDIC ...

The New York Times reports today (here) that the US government cannot track when people stay longer that they are authorized. This is no surprise to immigration lawyers and foreign nationals. US immigration officials estimate that 2.9 ... Maher Husein Smadi. He is from Jordan, and is accused of plotting to bomb an office building in Dallas. Mr. Smadi entered the US as a tourist, and this status expired in April 2008. However, the article says that that Mr. Smadi, like many tourists who overstay visas ...

... General Motors is not a simple matter). But it seemed clear that as General Motors tottered on the edge of bankruptcy and the Company asked for additional government money, a change in management was in order. As usual, the salient question is where was the board of directors? As the announcement was being made that the US government had to step in and do the board's job by insisting on regime change, the board of Peugeot Citroën did its ...

This article was posted on Switched.com today: US Government May Be Tracking You With Your Cell Phone, by Terrence O'Brien: It was disturbing enough when the government was just listening in. Now privacy advocates are afraid the government may be tracking ... . The ACLU was spurred into action following a blog post in The New York Times in which some courts expressed discomfort with the government's use of cell phone tracking data without probable cause. The link is to a December 10, 2005 NY Times ...

... days (including Geoffery Chaucer at the ZiefBrief favorite Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog.) Not wanting to be left out of the fun, the US Government is blogging up a storm at Govgab. This new effort is the product of the Office of Citizen Services and Communications out of the U.S. General Services Administration. This rather breezy look at the Federal Government has been around since September of '07 so it looks like it is here to stay. The bloggers state: In ...

... , found her husband's diary, which contains details of homosexual blackmail in the top ranks of the US Marine Corps and names leading politicians and military leaders. Kay Griggs's information about the US government also comes from observations and people she met. She exposes initiation rituals, ... keep people quiet. Much of this, according to Griggs, is related to secret society activity and she names figures like Henry Kissinger and a string of other top government individuals.

On Thursday the US government asked a VA federal judge to delay for seven days a scheduled hearing in the enemy combatant case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, the US citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2001. Hamdi has been in solitary confinement in a military jail. His lawyers began negotiating his release after the US Supreme Court's June ruling that enemy combatants may not be held indefinitely without

... good copy. However another issue, raised in one of the forums blasting the Pork Board, caught my eye. It seems that the US Government, through the National Pork Board, owns the PORK, THE OTHER WHITE MEAT trademark, and that they are paying ... when eaten in moderation, is as healthful as chicken and turkey (and that might not be a reasonable assumption), should a government agency levy producer taxes to promote product substitution (as opposed to merely promote increased per capita consumption). I'm ...