AI and Systemic Risk
The popular press is whistling past the graveyard of AI systemic risk even as heavyweight experts warn more needs to be done.
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Improving Indoor Air Quality Might Save Your Life
Cost-effective ways exist to improve your indoor air quality that will reduce your COVID and flu risk, lower your cancer and lung disease risk, and eliminate headaches and sleepiness caused by poor ventilation.
Read more...Economic Questions: James Tobin’s Transaction Tax
A Tobin tax is a no-brainer for reducing speculation and financial crisis risk. That is reason enough to keep it from being implemented.
Read more...The Housing Crisis Is Forcing Americans to Choose Between Affordability and Safety
The magic of the market: a system where your income determines your exposure to climate disasters.
Read more...Bitcoin, Crypto Plunge Accelerates as Leveraged Players (“Treasuries”) Like Strategy Dump Holdings
A big leverage unwind in Bitcoin is accelerating, dragging down other crypto. How much further will the fall go before hitting bottom?
Read more...Heavy Metals Contamination Fears Go Mainstream with Infant Formula and Protein Powders
Heavy metals are a legitimate food safety concern. That has created a mini-industry of conflicted measurement and certification players.
Read more...Colorado Is Pumping the Brakes on First-Of-Its-Kind AI Regulation to Find a Practical Path Forward
AI: too big to be regulated?
Read more...Public Money, Private Innovation: How Government Funding Built – and Sustains – America’s Technological Leadership
More evidence that publicly funded research is disproportionately productive and hence critical to innovation.
Read more...Yet More AI Bubble Worries, Now on Debt Side, with Wall Street Journal Featuring AI Datacenter Borrowing “Frenzy”
Peeling back another layer of the AI onion, today on datacenter financing.
Read more...The E.U. ‘Derisks’ Itself Into Another Disaster
Despite years of supposed preparation, the bloc is now scrambling for rare earths. Will the US have any more success?
Read more...Wall Street Journal Insults Reader Intelligence, Depicts Lenders as Addressing Loan Risks When That Horse Has Left the Barn and Is in the Next County
The Wall Street Journal does its readers no favors in its whole-hog adoption of the fraud spin in ‘splaining high profile loan losses.
Read more...Tracing a Line Between Israeli Pager Attacks and Ukraine Collapse to the Tennessee Munitions Factory Explosion that Killed 16 Workers in an Impoverished Region of the U.S.
The so-called ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ goes up in smoke.
Read more...Commodities: Why They Are a Challenge for Investors
Uncertainty is pushing investors to consider commodities but playing them is not as easy as you think!
Read more...Financial Institution Leaders Issue More Warnings of Equity Market Froth, Dodgy Debt Bombs
Financial firm heads are making admissions against interest. Further discussion of apparent and potential risks.
Read more...Time Bomb: How Uninsured Stablecoins and Crypto Derivatives Threaten Financial and Economic Stability
Why stablecoins are another finanical train wreck in the making.
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