The Green Economy Is Rife with Fraud
A multimillionaire Democratic donor’s guilty plea raises broader questions about corruption in environmentalist schemes like carbon-offset trading. Source link
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A Better Prescription for Affordable Medicine
President Trump’s threat to strong-arm drugmakers will drive up costs, stall cures, and blunt America’s medical edge. Source link
High on Caillebotte, Impressionist Master
A painter once thought peculiar, he’s now the deserving subject of Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World at the Art Institute of Chicago. Source link
Video: How Trump Could Gain Control of the Fed
new video loaded: How Trump Could Gain Control of the Fed By Ben Casselman, Melanie Bencosme, June Kim, Gabriel Blanco and Jon Hazell•August 28, 2025 President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa…
From pilot to scale: Making agentic AI work in health care
Overcoming LLM limitations LLMs excel at understanding nuanced context, performing instinctive reasoning, and generating human-like interactions, making them ideal for agentic tools to…
The White House or Theranos HQ? Trump’s purges put him in league with these disgraced CEOs
Spin has its limitations. Lots of people can easily detect the stink of bad news lingering just beneath the potpourri of spin that suggests the news is actually not so bad. What works even…
AI Doesn’t Spout MAGA Propaganda. No Wonder Donald Trump Hates It.
First, the Trump administration grossly misunderstands Large Language Models. LLMs don’t use the truth-finding tools of liberal society: scientific, academic, legal, or journalistic…
Trump’s War on Wind Power Is a War on His Working-Class Voters
Remember how Trump campaigned against “Bidenflation”? With good reason, Americans were tired of paying high prices for everything, including their energy bills. Now, his tariffs and attack…
Patricia Lockwood’s Completely Singular Covid Novel
Some experiences, some books, are not meant to be picked apart. They are watercolor gouaches that wash over us as we delight in a palimpsest of colorful impressions. Patricia Lockwood’s…
Like It or Not, We Are All D.C. Now
January 6, 2021, was the end of Washington, D.C., as a capital city. There was no going back after the political perpetrators of a violent attempt to overthrow the government were never…
Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use
“We’re not comfortable revealing that for various reasons,” Dean told me on our call. The total number is an abstract measure that changes over time, he says, adding that the company wants…
Temasek shakes up leadership as it prepares for renewal
Temasek Holdings will divide its operations into three entities, in one of the biggest overhauls in its 51-year history, as it prepares for a new generation of leaders. The company on…
In Finland, this giant battery is helping heat apartments and offices—using sand
A small town in Finland is experimenting with a new type of infrastructure: the world’s largest sand battery. The battery—a 42-foot-tall, nearly 50-foot-wide silo filled with 2,000 tons of…
Trump Explodes in Rage as Dem Governor’s Harsh Takedown Draws Blood
This week, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker delivered an extraordinary takedown of President Trump over his deployment of the military in U.S. cities. Trump then exploded about Pritzker’s…
Buffett’s Berkshire lifts stakes in Japan trading houses, buoys shares
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has raised its stakes in Mitsubishi and Mitsui & Co, according to the Japanese trading houses, prompting a jump in shares across the sector. A unit of…
How to simplify fancy workflows and get real work done
Nelson Repenning is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of MIT’s Leadership Center. Donald Kieffer is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management,…
SingPost past and present: How a 200-year old monopoly got disrupted
Some have quipped that the postal service is the original social media. It facilitated widespread communication and connection over distances for centuries before email, Facebook,…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI boom far from over
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday (Aug 27) dismissed concern about an end to a spending boom on artificial intelligence chips and said opportunities will expand into a multi-trillion-US…
How to use failure to your advantage
We set out to push ourselves, improve, and grow. But when things get tough or don’t go to plan? It’s all too easy to pull the plug. Research from Headway—the leading book summary app—shows…
Hong Kong’s gold trading ambitions tested by talent shortage
Bank of China (Hong Kong) posted a job ad early this year for a precious metals trader fluent in English and Mandarin with at least five years of experience to work on its gold desk in the…
Latest Singapore six-month T-bill cut-off yield falls to 1.44%
Auction receives S$18.4 billion in applications for the S$7.7 billion on offer, representing a bid-to-cover ratio of 2.39 The cut-off yield on Singapore’s latest six-month Treasury bill…
Coffee drinkers face new jolt as tariffs fuel price hike
Companies are indicating that price hikes may have to follow suit if levies remain in place Consumers already shelling out more for their morning cups of coffee cannot catch a…
Apparently, banana bread is the male equivalent of flowers
It may be a cliché, but coming up with gift ideas for the men in your life can be a challenge. Whatever the occasion, or simply just because, a bunch of flowers is always a safe bet when…
Temasek unit, Nexus ink deal to acquire stakes in Post Advisory
Post Advisory Group has reached a deal with Nexus Capital Management and a Temasek Holdings subsidiary that will reshape the ownership structure of the credit manager but keep…