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The thing which is beyond intellectually serious dispute is industrial-scaled fraud. You keep wanting to make me "own" the CCAP's estimate. I will not reciprocally try to make you …

The way I phrased that point was "The investigators allege repeatedly visiting daycare centers which did not, factually, have children physically present at the facility despite re…

We have reviewed your feedback on our editorial choices, and are comfortable that we have characterized the claims in the report accurately. We stand by "Minnesota has suffered a d…

FoF claimed to supply meals at the same physical locations as CCAP and paid the same owners. As mentioned, one of nine of the operators profiled, who was previously raided in an in…

The Swanson memo memorializes the consensus of his investigatory group and, put to question by OLA and legislators, they stick with that story: Page 14 of PDF: [The OLA] did not fi…

I am quite likely to do a more formal writeup in the next few weeks, unless Zvi beats me to it. (He had, apparently, directionally similar results.)

See: https://tax.illinois.gov/individuals/credits/educationexpens...

As I note frequently, I have a small pile of thank you letters as a result of the negotiation piece. Very few are written by people with an outsized public profile. How many people…

Internet fist bump.

(I worked at a different processing company, which I am not speaking for.) We're struggling to find the motive or intended outcome by the attacker(s). The highest likelihood for me…

She does not misrepresent her wealth in her article. At no point does she claim to be scraping by. A direct quote: > Initially, I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to afford my ta…

I seem to have set you off somehow, and I do not understand precisely how, but I feel this is important: I did not publicly accuse the writer of anything. (I did heavily imply publ…

You can put theses in the third paragraph but you can't force everyone to actually read them.

I still get a kick out of this photo: https://x.com/patio11/status/332651272878575616

Tiny correction: in 2010, I invented a thing parallel to something many well-educated Americans of my acquaintance believe with respect to the centrality of their experience, for t…

(Correcting record: four witnesses.)

(Fixed.)

This is occurring against a backdrop of e.g. hearings of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. I regret to inform you that the broader issue is of great interest outside our circles. …

Appreciate the note. The production configuration still thinks it is in Tokyo, and I did all my reviews on a laptop that knows it is in Chicago. Will fix.

They literally have no computer system that can tell them the difference between you and a hedge fund manager, and so an email to IR fairly reliably gets the white glove treatment.…

I could have quoted the roadshow verbatim in support of the point, but it felt tangential. The point is not “Chicago is on the precipice of a pogrom.” It is “political elites in Ch…

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Does your envisioned product allow someone to direct deposit a paycheck? Then congratulations, it is a credit account, because a) we expect to spend paychecks including very soon a…

Japan had a similar policy, with respect to legal immigrants it had made a point of recruiting, in the immediate wake of the global financial crisis. They'd buy (largely) Peruvian/…

Depends on the country and weight class of the financial institution, but among e.g. U.S. money center banks, branch bankers have been successively de-skilled for the last ~3.5 dec…