Fed Sees Oil Prices Cooling Despite Renewed Iran War Indonesia has recently welcomed the first cargo of Russian crude oil under a deal Southeast Asia’s biggest economy struck with Moscow in April. Abo...
Fed Sees Oil Prices Cooling Despite Renewed Iran War What I Cover My focus spans the global energy landscape and the technologies reshaping it, specifically focusing on oil and gas, renewables, and te...
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Köln! We spent a few days in the city, and once again I marveled at the splendors of the Cathedral. If it had its original stained glass, it would count as one of the very best churches ever. It sti...
That is the theme of my latest Free Press piece, here is one excerpt from it: Government-run systems often (not always) do a perfectly fine job setting a broken arm or administering a long-standing, w...
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Home > IRS IRS | July 8, 2026 Are IRS Chatbots Really Helping Taxpayers? It's a question that's difficult to answer because the data the IRS collects to measure chatbot performance is unreliable...
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Home > Taxes Taxes | July 8, 2026 Will World Series of Poker Main Event Attendance Be Impacted by Major Tax Changes? While there are several variables that help determine the field size for the ...
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Home > General News General News | July 8, 2026 Controller Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $1.1 Million From Employer Jacob Wise, 29, of Riverview, MI, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud agai...
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Home > Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and Acquisitions | July 8, 2026 BMSS Adds Avizo Group in Alabama Top 100 accounting firm BMSS Advisors & CPAs has merged in Fairhope, AL-based CPA firm Av...
Prior to the war, I linked to a tweet from Matt Yglesias which explained why Matt opposed the war, and I expressed my agreement with his stance. While I feel plenty has gone on which I do not observe...
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Home > AICPA AICPA | July 8, 2026 AICPA and NASBA Recognize Top CPA Exam Performers with 2025 Elijah Watt Sells Award This award is granted to CPA candidates who obtain a cumulative average scor...
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Spider Noir (Prime): I’ve had enough of the Marvel multiverse so I was worried about Spider-Noir. The writers, however, have written an excellent noir in the style of Raymond Chandler with Nicholas Ca...
How absent are women from city streets in the developing world? We answer this question using GPS-linked wearable cameras and randomized street audits across ~900 kilometers of roads in greater Mumbai...
From Nick Caputo: NEW paper from me on SSRN: Can Claude consent to its own Constitution? AI constitutions (like Claude’s Constitution and the OpenAI Model Spec) are real constitutions, and we need to ...
From Zigmund Forrest and Maxwell Tabarrok in Works in Progress: In total, around eight percent of the land in America’s major coastal cities was underwater in the 1890s and has since been reclaimed. T...
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Arin Dube points to a great illustration of the power of prediction markets. Yesterday due to a new scandal the probability that Graham Platner would drop out of the Maine Democratic primary exploded ...