Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms
The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."
Project 2025’s Recipe For Success: Hide Agenda, Avoid Paper Trails, Create Secret Plans - Accountable US
In recently unearthed videos, Project 2025 outlines for potential future political appointees the myriad of ways they should hide their tactics from public scrutiny:
“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Today, they’re somehow truer than ever.
Asset Bubbles Detecting and Measuring Them Are Not Easy Tasks
How do booms and busts in asset prices, in particular for stocks and real estate, relate to financial crises? And why are such bubbles difficult to predict?
Shows the daily level of the federal funds rate back to 1954. The fed funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions (banks and credit unions) lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight, on an uncollateralized basis. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets eight times a year to determine the federal funds target rate.
S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index is a composite of single-family home price indices for the nine U.S. Census divisions and is calculated monthly. It is included
Musk's social media firm X bought by his AI company, valued at $33 billion
(Reuters) -Elon Musk's xAI has acquired X in a deal that values the social media platform at $33 billion and allows the value of his artificial intelligence firm to be shared with his co-investors in the company formerly known as Twitter. The deal could also help xAI's ability to train its chatbot known as Grok. "xAI and X's futures are intertwined," Musk, who also heads automaker Tesla and SpaceX, wrote in a post on X: "Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent."
Expanding free school meals: a cost benefit analysis
We commissioned PwC to undertake the most ambitious analysis to date into the societal and economic benefits of increasing free school meal provision in England.
Gig economy bosses could face jail time if they fail to check employees can legally work in UK
The Home Office has announced a crackdown on illegal working which it claims will "undermine" people smugglers using "the false promise of jobs for migrants".
A.R. Moxon:
It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.
It’s not an inconsistency. It’s very consistent to
Flooding Trump’s Zone: Networked Warfare Still Works
In the period leading up to Trump’s inauguration, spokesmen for the President-elect repeatedly stressed that he would hit the ground running. Metaphors like “fire hose,” “shock and awe,” and “flooding the zone” were common from those both officially and unofficially associated with Trump. And hit the ground running, he did indeed. ICE sweeps in Chicago...