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OPEC Cuts Demand Forecast Again as the Oil Market Starts Looking Past Hormuz
Alex Kimani is a veteran finance writer, investor, engineer and researcher for Safehaven.com.
The cost of unsubsidized uti...
July 13, 2026
That is the title of a recent book by Beatrice Magistro. Some key results are: Economic knowledge consistently predicts higher support for welfare-enhancing policies (Eurozone membership, free trade,...
July 12, 2026
Christoph Henking and Ben Baumberg Geiger found that while there has been a steep rise in the share of young Britons reporting a mental illness, the share of people who say a mental health problem lim...
July 11, 2026
Mr Stallard has been working for a decade to corroborate this revelation. His findings have, if anything, become even more striking. Last year he and some colleagues published research in the Journal ...
July 11, 2026
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Taxes
Taxes | July 10, 2026
Michigan Tax Preparation Business Owner Charged with Fraud
A Shelby Township, MI, man who owns First Class Tax and Consulting and two of his employees are accu...
July 10, 2026
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Taxes
Taxes | July 9, 2026
IRS Introduces Automatic Exemption from Penalty Process, Phases Out First Time Abate
The IRS on Wednesday announced a new automatic process that will provide pe...
July 10, 2026
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Taxes
Taxes | July 9, 2026
IRS Final Rules Identify Certain CRATs as ‘Listed Transactions’
The final regulations identify certain arrangements claiming to be charitable remainder annuity ...
July 09, 2026
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PCAOB
PCAOB | July 9, 2026
Here’s Who’s Serving on the PCAOB’s Inspections Modernization Council
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Thursday revealed the names of the 12 peo...
July 09, 2026
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Technology
Technology | July 9, 2026
Xero Announces New AI Innovations at Xerocon London
Xero touted new AI-powered features within its agentic platform JAX that make it easier for small ...
July 09, 2026
Fed Sees Oil Prices Cooling Despite Renewed Iran War
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Julianne Geiger is a veteran energy journalist and market analyst with more than a decade of experience covering the global oil and…
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July 09, 2026
“Buy land,” they said, “they aren’t making any more.” But in fact, we used to make a lot of land. Half the land area of Boston, a quarter of Manhattan, and 15% of San Francisco were raised from the se...
July 09, 2026
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...
July 09, 2026
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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...
July 08, 2026
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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...
July 08, 2026
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...
July 08, 2026
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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...
July 08, 2026
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...
July 08, 2026
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 ...
July 08, 2026
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...
July 07, 2026
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. From Wikipedia: Ahamed is the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (2009). The book was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History...
July 07, 2026