Hunter Biden: The legal troubles of the US president’s son
A five-year probe into the president’s son looked set to end last month. Now it may be heading to trial.
‘You’re kind of raised to hate tourists’: Maui fires fan tensions on Hawaiian island
“What I’m afraid of is that if people keep seeing ‘Maui’s closed’, and ‘don’t come to Maui’, what little business is left is going to be gone,” said Daniel Kalahiki,…
Army airlifts hundreds to safety from fires in Northwest Territories
Some people have been forced to flee twice this summer from fires in the country’s north.
Links 8/16/2023 | naked capitalism
How Rocks and Minerals Play with Light to Produce Breathtaking Colors JSTOR Daily A Great Lakes Road Trip for Rust-Belt Steel Field & Stream Pimco flickers back to life FT.…
Scientism as a Non-Solution to a Problem that Should Not Exist vs. Science as a Solution to a Problem that Must Be Fixed | naked capitalism
Yves here. KLG continues his hard look at scientism. Established readers will note KLG takes a similar view to that of Jerri-Lynn Scofield in her “war on plastics” work. Jerri-Lynn,…
Trump in the Middle
There was a time, not all that long ago, when being indicted was bad for a politician’s career. That time is over — at least for Donald Trump. The outrageous…
Quelle Surprise! High Fee “Alternative Investments” Produce Serious “Negative Alpha” as in Underperformance as Managers Get Rich | naked capitalism
Over the years, this site and some important writers like Michael Hudson have written regularly about rentier activity and how it distorts economic performance and creates a parasitical elite. A…
GE, Bayer, Blamed for Child’s Cancer in a Community Awash in PCB Pollution | naked capitalism
Yves here. It is over my pay grade to know the odds of success of these cases against major manufacturers, here GE and Bayer, for their role in producing and…
China Stocks Slump as Economic Gloom Spreads
About three weeks ago, at a meeting chaired by Xi Jinping, China’s leader, officials acknowledged that China’s economy was facing “new difficulties and challenges.” According to the official Xinhua News…
When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty
Avijit Ghosh wanted the bot to do bad things. He tried to goad the artificial intelligence model, which he knew as Zinc, into producing code that would choose a job…