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Still from Steven Spielberg’s “AI.” I have written before on the AI bubble. The stock valuations we are seeing now look a lot like the valuations we saw before the Internet bubble began to crash in 2000. Even a quarter century later, people miss much of the story of that bubble. It’s true we had companies that never made a profit, like Pets.com, with valuations in the billions. But the story went far beyond some flaky companies having ridiculous market capitalizations. The irrational exuberance, to use Alan Greenspan’s great term, infected everything. Ford’s stock price more than tripled from 1996…

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“This investigation continues,” Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, declared last Wednesday, referring to the criminal probe of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that she launched in November. “I am going forward. We are appealing the decision of Judge Boasberg.” Pirro was referring to a March 11 ruling in which James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, quashed two grand jury subpoenas seeking information about the over-budget renovation of the central bank’s Washington, D.C., headquarters and Powell’s allegedly dishonest testimony about that project during a Senate Banking Committee hearing…

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Iran has humiliated the US during the negotiating process. The US and Iran have held a round of talks and exchanged messages through Pakistan, but have been unable to reach an agreement.  “The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skilful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result,” the German leader said Monday. “An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that ⁠this ends as quickly as possible.”  The US…

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Executive Director Curt Mills joined Harry Cole Saves the West to talk about whether Trump is losing his base Curt Mills appeared on the podcast of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs to talk about the Iran War Responsible Statecraft quoted Curt Mills on Trump and the neocons The post TAC Media Appearances: 4/20–4/27 appeared first on The American Conservative. Source link

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Spring’s budding trees, blooming flowers and warmer temperatures beckon the winter weary back outdoors. But a tiny danger lurks in the season’s celebratory greenery: ticks. These eight-legged, bacteria-carrying parasites are the No. 1 Lyme disease-spreader for humans. Scientists are working on a vaccine series to guard against the disease. Until then, people are vulnerable to this potentially serious tick-borne illness — and the risk of exposure is growing. Some antivaccine sentiment is propelling an online conspiracy theory linking the tick population with the vaccine.  So before you set out on that hike, picnic or beach day, know the facts about ticks, Lyme…

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