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Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking, November 30, 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 …
CNBC: “Costco sued the Trump administration to get a full refund of new tariffs it paid so far this year, and to block those import duties from continuing to be collected from the retail warehouse club giant as a Supreme Court case plays out. In the suit filed Friday, Costco said that it risks losing …
USAFacts: “About 50.2 million in 2024. This represents approximately 14.8% of the population, or about 1 in 7 residents in the United States. Immigrants are defined as foreign-born residents, which includes people who became US citizens, are authorized to come to the US (e.g., on work visas, student visas), or are undocumented residents“. Site includes …
52 things I learned in 2025 – – [a small selection from the list] In 2023, Nigeria had a million more births than the whole of Europe – Our World in Data, via Charles Onyango-Obbo] Childhood peanut allergies are falling dramatically, perhaps because advice to avoid peanuts was reversed. [Simar Bajaj] The serial killer epidemic …
The New Yorker: Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond. In the Line of Fire [no paywall] “America is a violent country. Nowhere else that is remotely as rich tolerates so many murders or so many weapons. But, sometime during the tumultuous decade of the Trump era, it began to seem that simply …
Center for Presidential Transition Report: “Every presidential transition in modern history has been unique and 2024 was no exception. Although the transition of power from the outgoing Biden administration to the incoming Trump administration was peaceful, it was characterized by significant departures from established norms and set a precedent for future transitions to stray from …
Washington Post [and The Hill] – “A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports the president disagrees with, coming after the president has voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times and Bloomberg. The White House launched a page on its website Friday devoted to …
Follow up to post – We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate – See also the new Epstein Files Search – powered by Justice for All Victims: Search Tags for Files, Images, People, Organizations, Countries. See also via Journalist Studio – Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found. You …
Follow up to previous post – Proposed Rule on Schedule F Politicizes Career Employee Jobs – See also Government Executive: “OPM officials told agency HR leaders [November 18, 2025] that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to policy.” Draft final …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse “With the end of the government shutdown, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has just posted new data on the results the Trump administration has achieved from its massive redeployment of government military and civilian personnel to immigration enforcement. The data show surprisingly little has been accomplished given the huge expenditure of …
Follow up to The DOGE Has Arrived and The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers – see Reuters: “President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size but which …
ALA Library Technology Guides – [November 21, 2025] the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The decision was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 21 states. ALA President Sam Helmick …
