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Monday, July 17, 2023

Unpopularity Behind Elite Demands For Spying And Censorship

Right-Wing Websites Connected to Former Trump Lawyer Are Scamming Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches ProPublica


How the big four accounting firms infiltrated governments, earning more than $10b over a decade while taxpayers are in the dark


One of Australia’s most senior tax officials worked directly at PwC with at least two of the partners named in the consultancy giant’s tax leaks scandal.


$2.5 million tax fraud operation in the spotlight as Crime Interrupted releases new episode


International Tax Advisor Arrested for Helping to Conceal Over $100 Million of Income for High-Net-Worth U.S. Taxpayers FRANK BUTSELAAR 


When did we give central bankers the right to reorganise the economy in favour of the wealthy?

 

US colleges and universities are ‘selling access’ to supreme court justices AP


Boston Consulting and bonus kings McKinsey tell Senate to rack off. What’s the scam?


 Unpopularity Behind Elite Demands For Spying And Censorship Public


Gallery Owner Seen Spraying Homeless Woman In Infamous Viral Video Gets 35 Hours Community Service SF 

 

SAG-AFTRA president defends fashion show trip to Italy as contract deadline looms LA Times

 


A Transatlantic Trend: Banks in UK and US Are Closing Customer Accounts With Little to No Warning Or Explanation

“The escalation team just reached out to me. They told me that the account was being shut down, and they wouldn’t give me a reason. I asked them if they would ever give me a reason. They said no.”

 

The Modern World Reconceived Brad DeLong, Harvard Magazine. The deck: “Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the ‘web of capital.'”

The Best Decision-Making Is Emotional Every


Data scientists predict stock returns with AI and online news

Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science – “For years, the financial press has helped inform investors of all stripes. Cornell researchers have discovered it can also inform the algorithm behind a new financial predicting model.  In their paper, “News-Based Sparse Machine Learning Models for Adaptive Asset Pricing,” published in Data Science in Science in April, the researchers draw from interdisciplinary fields such as machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and finance to build a new, interpretable machine-learning framework that captures stock- and industry-specific information and predicts financial returns with greater accuracy than traditional models.

 “One of the knocks on machine learning is it’s not interpretable,” said Martin Wells, the Charles A. Alexander Professor of Statistical Sciences in the Cornell Ann. S Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and the paper’s senior author. “Often when researchers use big models such as these, they may not know what the outputs mean or what is underlying the model. This research leverages text data from the news to build interpretable machine-learning models where you can see the important features explicitly.”


The second season of the AFP’s award-winning podcast Crime Interrupted continues with Episode Four: Operation Boscobel, taking listeners behind the scenes of how the AFP dismantled a $2.5 million tax fraud syndicate.

The AFP has partnered with Casefile to produce six new episodes of Crime Interrupted, showcasing counter terrorism, childcare fraud, cybercrime operations and more.

The latest episode details Operation Boscobel, a multi-agency AFP-led investigation that resulted in six convictions and the restraint of more than $11.5 million under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Cth).

$2.5 million tax fraud operation in the spotlight as Crime Interrupted releases new episode