Is Trump Serious About Trying to Close the Private Equity Carried Interest Loophole?
Trump wants to revive his 2017 plan to curb a private equity tax abuse, the so-called carried interest loophole. Is he likely to succeed now?
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New Filing Details How Crooked Attorney Ann Oldfather and Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman Conspired to Sell Out Underwater Pension Funds and Taxpayers to the Tune of Hundreds of Millions, Even >$1 Billion, in Lost Recoveries
As more legal filings and reviews show, Ann Oldfather and Attorney General Russell Cameron are shafting Kentucky taxpayers for their benefit
Read more...AI’s Impending Information Crisis
AI coverage whistles past the graveyard of its lack of enough content to generate good output, assuring garbage in, garbage out.
Read more...Tankus and Kelton on Musk’s DOGE Seizing Treasury’s Payments Chokepoint. But Where Are The Lawyers?
What attack surfaces does DOGE present?
Read more...Meditation and Mindfulness at Work Are Welcome, but Do They Help Avoid Accountability for Toxic Culture?
An update on corporate efforts to deploy seemingly beneficial practices like meditation for their benefit.
Read more...Kelp Farming Isn’t As Green As It Seems
Why kelp, hyped as a carbon sink, does not live up to its promise.
Read more...Should the Government Be Allowed to Hold Bitcoin?
A terse debunking of the idea that governments holding Bitcoin or other private currencies is good for anyone other than their touts.
Read more...Fake Papers Are Contaminating the World’s Scientific Literature, Fueling a Corrupt Industry and Slowing Legitimate Lifesaving Medical Research
Why the problem a rising level of bogus scientific papers exists in the first place and is proving difficult to combat.
Read more...The Bogus Justification for AI Uptake and the Real Reason for the Scam
AI, in a significant majority of cases, reduces productivity. And there’s not much reason to expect better any time soon.
Read more...A Trump Pivot Away From Europe? Not So Fast: The Plunder Is Too Lucrative for American Plutocrats
Europe is now largely an American colony where the tech, energy, weapons, and financial industries are making a killing, so it’s no wonder Trump isn’t going to substantially shift US policy.
Read more...More Kentucky Dirty Dealings: Attorney General Schemes to Leave Hundreds of Millions in Pension Recovery on the Table, Give Sweetheart Payout to Attorneys, To Settle Claims Against Private Equity Kingpins KKR and Blackstone, Including Ones by Plaintiffs the AG Does Not Represent
A new legal low: the Kentucky Attorney General wants to gift the pension fund’s money to KKR and Blackstone to settle claims against them.
Read more...NATO as the Fly in Russia’s Baltic Sea Soup
The West uses common, minor, and likely accidental damage to a few submarine cables to further militarize the Baltic Sea and harass the “shadow fleet.”
Read more...Health Care AI, Intended To Save Money, Turns Out To Require a Lot of Expensive Humans
Artificial intelligence systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and to keep them working well. In essence: You need people, and more machines, to make sure the new tools don’t mess up.
Read more...What Has Happened to Our Grand Experiment, the Internet?
With AI threatening to crapify online life and even generate geopolitical chaos, Congress needs to reinstate the Office of Technology Policy
Read more...Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity
Another type of example of how health insurers screw patients.
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