The Texas Legislature blinked and, and the last minute, blunted, a push to essentially destroy the fantastically successful clean energy industry in the state. Luke Metzger, Environment Texas: “In a l...
05.30.2023 Nytimes.com and 7 sitesRon DeSantis’s ‘Central Bank Digital Currency’ stance on Florida’ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced today that he is contesting the Republican presidential primary. The announcement came during ...
05.27.2023 Investing.com and 6 sitesGenerative artificial intelligence models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT are trained by being fed giant amounts of data, but what happens when this data is copyrighted? Well, the defendants in a variety of ...
05.30.2023 Cointelegraph.com and 6 sitesMemorial Day weekend brought good tidings for the market as President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) agreed in principle on a budget deal, raising hopes that a debt default can b...
05.30.2023 Investing.com and 3 sitesA 1% increase in productivity is worth about $730 per person each year in New Zealand, writes Josie Pagani. Josie Pagani is a commentator on current affairs and a regular contributor to Stuff. She works in geopolitics, aid and development, and governance. OPINION: “Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it's almost everything. ” Left-leaning economist Paul Krugman wants us to worry about it more. Without it wages do not increase, we build less stuff, fund fewer health treatments, and...
06.01.2023 Stuff.co.nzDebt ceiling debate was mostly pointless By Matthew Gagnon Let’s say you are in a car and you are heading for a cliff, in a classic movie style moment. You are traveling at 90 miles per hour toward yo...
05.31.2023 Bangordailynews.com and 1 sitesThe U. S. government has reached a tentative deal to suspend its debt ceiling. Bitcoin and the broader crypto market reacted positively to this news. On May 27, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tweeted th...
05.28.2023 Beincrypto.com and 1 sitesFortune 500 companies are firing hundreds of thousands of American professionals, but President Joe Biden’s deputies want to import more foreign white-collar workers for jobs that would go to better-p...
05.27.2023 Breitbart.comMarkets breathed a sigh of relief earlier this month when Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled the central bank was open to pausing interest rate hikes at its next meeting in June. But JPMorga...
05.31.2023 Fortune.com and 1 sitesI; } I was told not to tweet this until the houses adjourned for fear of jinxing it, but the Minnesota legislature just completed what is probably the most productive session anywhere in the country since probably the New Deal. Sweeping bills and ref...
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