http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2007/08/21/crs-tuesday-mortgages-the-federal-reserve-and-the-angry-analyst/ Recommendations, Resources, and Reform Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:53:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2007/08/21/crs-tuesday-mortgages-the-federal-reserve-and-the-angry-analyst/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Mortgage Discussion Blog » Late breaking news Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:04:22 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2007/08/21/crs-tuesday-mortgages-the-federal-reserve-and-the-angry-analyst/#comment-286 [...] CRS Tuesday: <b>Mortgages</b>, the Federal Reserve, and the Angry Analyst [...] [...] CRS Tuesday: <b>Mortgages</b>, the Federal Reserve, and the Angry Analyst [...]

]]> http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2007/08/21/crs-tuesday-mortgages-the-federal-reserve-and-the-angry-analyst/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Lobbying Update: Part 2 | The Open House Project Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:23:41 +0000 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2007/08/21/crs-tuesday-mortgages-the-federal-reserve-and-the-angry-analyst/#comment-263 [...] The CRS Reports section has seen the smallest amount of actual progress, although it seems to me that the reports have been in the news more often, and we’ve been pushing for reports to be used more often for reliable unbiased information, by posting CRS reports on Tuesdays that are relevant to the week’s news stories.  I’m also interested in identifying other sorts of incremental steps we could ask for, such as access to a subject list of CRS topics, or getting access to reports with the authors’ names redacted.  I really feel like public access is ultimately inevitable, especially when people process just how obnoxious it is that they’re for sale, through some unknown mechanism.  I could be wrong about this, but doesn’t it seem at least unseemly to provide access to government documents for profit? [...] [...] The CRS Reports section has seen the smallest amount of actual progress, although it seems to me that the reports have been in the news more often, and we’ve been pushing for reports to be used more often for reliable unbiased information, by posting CRS reports on Tuesdays that are relevant to the week’s news stories.  I’m also interested in identifying other sorts of incremental steps we could ask for, such as access to a subject list of CRS topics, or getting access to reports with the authors’ names redacted.  I really feel like public access is ultimately inevitable, especially when people process just how obnoxious it is that they’re for sale, through some unknown mechanism.  I could be wrong about this, but doesn’t it seem at least unseemly to provide access to government documents for profit? [...]

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