US almost started a war with China over false AI intelligence
American intelligence officers are using chatbots to decide who the US should bomb next.
American intelligence officers are using chatbots to decide who the US should bomb next.
“Survey response rates for the monthly Jobs Report have declined steadily over the past decade, creating a direct risk to the quality of data that guides trillion-dollar policy decisions.”
The August jobs report was much celebrated by the White House, which pointed to a reported gain of 162,000 jobs in August. The White House called the gain “explosive.“ It would be nice if one month’s worth of job gains pointed to an economic revival, but that is unfortunately not the case.
“More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly...”
Open the financial pages and a strange creature stares back at you. The S&P 500 has climbed over 90 percent in three years. The top 10 percent of earners now account for nearly half of all consumer spending. Moody’s, Morgan Stanley, and the New York Fed agree on the shape of the thing: the economy has split in two. Asset-holders ride the upper arm of the “K” upward while wage earners slide down the lower one, watching groceries, rent, and insurance devour paychecks that no longer stretch.
“The Mission finds reasonable grounds to believe that the US committed the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack resulting in loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects.”
“‘The higher that yields go — for at least new money — it becomes more enticing to think about putting money into bonds,’ one strategist notes...”
Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will get no crude oil next month after the kingdom’s key Red Sear pipeline was attacked.
[Union At All Costs: From Confederation to Consolidation by John M. Taylor. (Book Locker 2017; 378 pp.)]
Murray Rothbard strongly defended the cause of the South in the War Between the States, and John M. Taylor’s book confirms Rothbard’s view with a great deal of evidence. It is not accidental that this is so. As Taylor tells us,