If you fool people to get their money, that's fraud; if you fool them to get their votes, that's politics.
EVAN ESAR
John Barilaro withdraws from $500,000 New York trade job
Ruja Ignatova - Cryptoqueen’ added to FBI’s most-wanted list after alleged $5.8b fraud
Turn Your Managers Into Your Biggest Asset for Winning the Great Resignation
Stephen Jones: union fees are tax deductible…
Great to check in with the hard working
staff in Townsville and thank them for their efforts at tax time 2022. StephenJonesMP
Fraud losses on social media last year were 18 times higher than in 2017
Romance Scams Explode, Leaving Broken Hearts and Millions Lost
John Inazu (Washington Univ.), Beyond Unreasonable, 99 Neb. L. Rev. 375 (2020):
The concept of “reasonableness” permeates the law: the “reasonable person” determines the outcome of torts and contracts disputes, the criminal burden of proof requires factfinders to reach conclusions “beyond a reasonable doubt,” and claims of self-defense succeed or fail on reasonableness determinations. But as any first-year law student can attest, the line between reasonable and unreasonable is not always clear. Nor is that the only ambiguity. In the realm of the unreasonable, many of us intuit that some actions are not only unreasonable but beyond the pale—we might say they are beyond unreasonable. Playing football, summiting Nanga Parbat, and attempting Russian roulette all risk serious injury or death, but most people do not view them the same. These distinctions raise vexing questions: What is it that makes us feel differently about these activities? Mere unfamiliarity? Moral condemnation? Relative utility? Or something else altogether? Moreover, who exactly is the “we” forming these judgments?
ProPublica: Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes On An Epic Scale
To Understand A Person’s Heart, Look At How They Organize Their Books
Where Did the Long Tail Go? The Honest Broker
If aliens are calling, let it go to voicemail Vox
Daniel Shaviro (NYU), Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film (2022):
How could American social solidarity have so collapsed that we cannot even cooperate in fighting a pandemic? One problem lies in how our values mutate and intersect in an era of runaway high-end inequality and evaporating upward mobility. Under such conditions, tensions rise between our egalitarian and democratic traditions on the one hand, and what we often call the “American Dream” of self-advancement and due reward on the other.
In our current Second Gilded Age, as in the first one from the late nineteenth century, the results of economic competition appear to suggest, falsely, that some of us are “winners” who deserve everything they have, while others are contemptible “losers.” The rich ostensibly owe the poor nothing — not even compassion or respect, and certainly not material aid through government
“It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria,” Volland said. “To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human as tall as Mount Everest . . . This is the first opportunity we have to manipulate individual bacteria with tweezers.” FT link here. NYT coverage here
Kramnik on the human capital deficit. Speculative
