Thursday, January 8, 2026 Water Recycling Program Could Help Drought-Stricken Communities In some parts of the United States, growing populations and prolonged droughts are straining water supplies. Large-scale water recycling could offer these communities a solution to their shortages. In a new report, we looked at the status of these efforts and their challenges. We’ll…
Mortgage interest rates are lower today, after yesterday’s better-than-expected Consumer Price Index report showed that inflation fell in June. The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage ticked down to 6.45% APR, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. This is eight basis points lower than yesterday but one basis point higher than…
Mike Nader is field chief technology officer at Foster City, California-based Incorta, an enterprise software provider focused on real-time data analysis. Views are the author’s own. Ten years ago, it would have been unusual to see a data and analytics leader reporting to the CFO. Today, that is much more common. That is not an…
Warren Buffett called Bill Gates’ association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “distasteful” after the Berkshire Hathaway chairman excluded the Gates Foundation from his sizable annual charitable donations. “I read a great deal since Jan. 1 in terms of what happened, with Bill and Epstein,” Buffett said in an interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick….
This paper was prepared for a conference on “The Forces Shaping America’s Fiscal Future” in June 2026. The conference was organized by the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Utah, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution….
Ryan Nauman hosts Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk podcast and speaks with Eden Ovadia, co-founder and CEO of FINNY AI, about why organic growth is a major challenge for financial advisors and why reliance on M&A has made firms complacent and increasingly capital-inefficient as multiples rise. Ovadia explains that referrals still drive most industry growth but…
Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche. Photo: Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission The review finds that digital investment across government is fragmented and that prioritisation of digital projects is weak, and provides recommendations to fix these and other issues New Zealand’s system for digital delivery across government is not working effectively, a rapid review…
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is suing the federal government and several private groups, alleging they were part of a conspiracy to suppress criticism of Israel through a coordinated campaign to dox, jail and ultimately deport student activists. The civil rights suit, filed in federal court Tuesday, names the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, as the…
Robotic pool cleaners take a lot of the hassle out of pool maintenance, automatically scrubbing surfaces and collecting debris with far less effort than manual vacuuming. Over the years, we’ve tested well over 40 robotic pool cleaners, including more than 10 brand-new models for 2026 alone, to narrow down the top performers available right now….
Frustrated at the collapse of his poorly-considered Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, President Trump has declared the US will reimpose its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and begin charging a 20 percent fee for passage. It’s genuinely astonishing for the government of the United States to blithely repudiate one of its most important contributions to international order. The US has…