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AI in Finance an Banking October 15, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to …
“President Donald Trump has spent the last nine months halting the growth of the American clean energy economy in its tracks, dragging the country into a vengeful, backward-leaning energy agenda that does the bidding of his fossil fuel allies and serves the interest of billionaire campaign donors. Consumers and the planet alike will suffer for …
“OpenOMB is a searchable database that makes apportionments easier to find and track. Apportionments are legally binding plans issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget that set the pace at which federal agencies may spend appropriated funds. OpenOMB’s database makes apportionments easy to find and track. Apportionments set the pace at which …
The Hill: “A new Goldman Sachs analysis [paywall] says American consumers will shoulder 55 percent of the costs from President Trump’s tariffs this year. American businesses and foreign exporters will take on 22 percent and 18 percent of the costs, respectively, while 5 percent of the costs will be evaded. Goldman Sachs economists added in the report, published Sunday, that …
Wired – no paywall: “With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would …
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The New York Times Gift Article – “In an escalating cat-and-mouse game, job hunters are trying to fool A.I. into moving their applications to the top of the pile with embedded instructions…As companies increasingly turn to A.I. to sift through thousands of job applications, candidates are concealing instructions for chatbots within their résumés in hopes …
Inside Climate News: “The National Guard logged more than 400,000 member service days per year over the past decade responding to hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters, the Pentagon has revealed in a report to Congress. The numbers mean that on any given day, 1,100 National Guard troops on average have been deployed on disaster …
Yale Budget Lab: Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs. October 1, 2025 – Download the Data While the occupational mix is changing more quickly than it has in the past, it is not a large difference and predates the widespread introduction of AI in the workforce. Currently, measures …
USFacts: “Congress hasn’t passed a full budget on time since 1997. How is the government getting funded? Government budgeting is a massive project. Each year, the federal government takes in trillions of dollars and redistributes them (and, in most years, more) to fund government programs and address the current administration’s priorities. At USAFacts, we talk …
Wired: “Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed …
404 Media: “The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation. “There are libraries that have our books that we’ve lent to them before all of this happened, and …
