News that resembles the plot of the 2013 sci-fi movie “Her” has made rounds in the media. Google engineer Blake Lemoine risked his career to try and prove to his peers and general public that LaMDA, the algorithm he was working on, had somehow become sentient. Lemoine was allegedly reprimanded by the tech giant for…
NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) —The global financial and economic outlook for the year ahead has soured rapidly in recent months, with policy makers, investors, and households now asking how much they should revise their expectations, and for how long. That depends on the answers to six questions. Six questions First, will the rise in inflation…
If you want to know why Americans are so grumpy about the economy, let’s start with the fact that despite strong job growth and sizable increases in wages, their incomes are simply not keeping up with inflation. Americans just don’t feel poorer — they are poorer. In fact, they have never lost so much purchasing…
Energy stocks have been the star investment this year. Now it’s time to sell them and electrify your portfolio before investors once again focus on the industry’s long-term headwinds. There are a host of headwinds that could threaten the surge: rising recession risk, consumer backlash from the high price of gasoline, and the push to…
In January 2021, an unclassified memo revealed that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), a military-intelligence unit of the US government, buys huge amounts of commercially available smartphone data and uses it to spy on Americans and track their movement history. By using publicly disclosed data, the DIA – and other agencies – can circumvent laws…
More than 120 companies including Intel, Nvidia and Texas Instruments recently signed a letter urging Congress to accelerate negotiations to get a bill passed that would massively scale chipmaking in the US. The group of A-list companies, which also includes Amazon AMZN and Microsoft MSFT, design, manufacture or provide critical infrastructure to the semiconductor industry….
After 21 years at its current location in downtown Fargo, ND, Red River Women’s Clinic will be moving to Moorhead, Minn. The new location is a 15-minute drive away across the Red River, which forms the state border between Minnesota and North Dakota. Last Friday, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade…
Lewis Altfest’s time in the finance industry spans seven decades. He has some words of advice for investors who aren’t used to stomach-churning stock-price moves. Altfest founded Altfest Personal Wealth Management in 1983 after working as a general partner and director of research Lord Abbett & Co. Before that, he was an analyst for several…
I’m a working-from-home mom and my supervisors have no intentions of bringing me back to the office at this time. In order to actually get work done, I have pieced together childcare using the help of family and friends. I have one friend who has really gone above and beyond to adjust her own flexible…
A new set of reforms to America’s retirement tax and savings plans passed a key hurdle in Congress last week. Variously known as the SECURE Act 2.0, the EARN Act and the RISE & SHINE Act, the measures will make changes to rules around IRAs, 401 (k) s and other tax-privileged retirement plans. The bills…
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