Tuesday, February 04, 2020

When Your Phone is secretly tapped by criminals: Tax Matters: When, Where, and How to Design Community Oriented Place-Based Tax Incentives.”

"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." -Lucille Ball
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Soul is what’s left after the world has worn you down,” Jeremy Michael Clark (“Dear Darkness”) writes. “Soul is duende,” Roberto Garcia (“Elegy in the Key of Life”) writes, “that inexplicable thing that connects human beings, that makes art true.” “Soul is memory, even when you don’t realize you are remembering,” Rio Cortez (“Writing Lately”) opines. Yasmin Blkhyr (“& I Mourned What I Could Not Name”) believes “Soul is the heart, the meaty heart & also the whistle of air in the lungs.” And my favorite is from Mia Kang (“Civitas”): “Soul is the thing under the thing.”

Google Maps Hacks Simon Weckert. “99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.”


Korean Cinema Didn’t Become The Best In The World By Accident

Several of the directors, including Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, “emerged from the period of 1980s civic turmoil that ended the military dictatorship. They were all members of the university cine-clubs that showed films banned under censorship laws, on campuses boiling over with pro-democracy fervour. Hence the taste for exploring off-limits parts of the national psyche.” Also, well, it’s structural: South Korean used to require its movie theatres to show homegrown cinema for 147 days per year. – The Guardian (UK)


 George Soros: Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of Facebook New York Times


 Bear Casually Opens Door and Strolls into Tahoe CHP Facility.I love the picture; it’s like he’s trying to pretend he’s human by walking on his hind legs to blend in. 


How To Tell If Your Cell Phone Is Tapped In 2020 - Best Cell Phone Spy Apps 


New ‘line-tapping’ technology being used to scam unsuspecting victims, York police warn


“On January 1, the International Monetary Fund made the eLibrary  free to all users.  IMF eLibrary is an electronic research platform that provides comprehensive access to the IMF’s publications and data.  More than 21,000 publications are available for online reading, downloading, printing or sharing.  


The Atlantic – “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it,”Jonathan Swift once wrote. It was hyperbole three centuries ago. But it is a factual description of social media, according to an ambitious and first-of-its-kind study published in early 2018. The massive study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years—and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor. By every common metric, falsehood consistently dominates the truth on Twitter, the study finds: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories…”
Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s Tax Policy Colloquium will reconvene this Thursday, January 23, 2020. Michelle Layser from the University of Illinois College of Law will start us off, presenting her new paper titled “When, Where, and How to Design Community Oriented Place-Based Tax Incentives.” It’s a really interesting study of tax-expenditure design in the context of geography-based tax incentives. Prof. Layser’s paper includes original “heat maps” of Chicago showing areas with high poverty levels, areas with high numbers of low-wage jobs, areas that are eligible for the New Markets Tax Credit, and areas designated as Opportunity Zones. The talk promises to be really interesting!

The full schedule of talks is listed below, after the jump, and is also shown in the poster pictured above. Overall, this year’s line-up of speakers is more international than usual, following my wonderful Fulbright research stay at the University of Luxembourg in Spring 2019.

As I did the last time I ran the Colloquium, I’m planning to blog each workshop afterwards, with permission of the speakers. If you will be in Bloomington and are interested in attending one or more workshops, just let me know and I can add you to the email list or send you a particular paper once I receive it. (Most of the paper drafts will not be publicly available.) Continue reading
 The Spotted Pig is closing. Am I reading between the lines correctly that Friedman is closing it down so he doesn’t have to pay his victims?“The IU Maurer Law School’s 2020 Tax Policy Colloquium”

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