On February 21, 2025, a federal district court in Maryland issued a nationwide order that temporarily prevents the administration from enforcing the anti-DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) provisions in two of President Trump’s executive orders. One of the executive orders (issued on January 21) is Executive Order 14173, … Read more
On March 3, Triple-I released its Chart of the Week, “Women’s Representation Among Underwriters Increased.” Citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the chart reveals that the number of women insurance Underwriters increased by 5 percent from 56.9 percent to 61.9 percent in 2024. The insurance sector provided about 3.0 million jobs–or 1.9 percent … Read more
Journey with us to Myanmar’s shadowy scam factories, where trafficked workers are forced to run romance-baiting and fake tech support scams, and find out why a company’s mandatory hold time for tech support could lead to innocent users having their computers compromised. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing … Read more
Buy? Sell? Hold? But first . . . Here’s 7 minutes on Trump/Musk’s firing of nuclear safety personnel. Was it done legally? Efficiently? Will it help lower the price of groceries? Who needs nuclear safety, anyway? I’d love to know Carl’s opinion — and, as he writes me almost every day, he may well share it. … Read more
Regardless of what else they might be doing, the indirect costs pay for various critical campus services, including at research hospitals. Suddenly having that amount slashed would create a major budgetary shortfall that will be hard to cover without shutting programs down. The resulting damage to research campuses in their states was one of the … Read more
