U.S. GAO – Health Insurance Marketplace Agents’ Scams and the Efforts to Prevent Them

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 Preventing Fraud in Medicare Medicare is the biggest spending area for the U.S. government and the largest federal health program. Due to the sheer size of Medicare, there are risks of fraud. We’ll talk with GAO’s Leslie Gordon to find out about efforts to detect and prevent this fraud.

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 USPS’s Financial Condition Struggles Under an Unsustainable Business Model The U.S. Postal Service is a quintessentially American institution. But during the last 20 years or so, USPS has struggled financially with rising costs and declining revenues from mail volumes. What’s the current status of USPS financial health and what’s being done…

 Reflections from the UN Women Expert Group Meeting for the Seventy-First Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW71) For much of the past decade, the dominant approach to advancing gender equality has been framed around integrating women more fully into existing economic institutions. We have asked how more women can participate in…

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering HB 1678, a proposal to extend the Commonwealth’s existing telecom gross receipts taxGross receipts taxes are applied to a company’s gross sales, without deductions for a firm’s business expenses, like compensation, costs of goods sold, and overhead costs. Unlike a sales tax, a gross receipts tax is assessed on businesses and applies to transactions at…

Friday, May 29, 2026 What a Recent Rule Change Means for Corporate Transparency Drug cartels and other illegal enterprises often use shell companies to hide their dealings and launder money. To combat this activity, many countries have requirements that corporations disclose their ownership-or their beneficial owners. And the U.S. was adopting a similar policy when,…

What’s left is an industrial systems competition.  This week, Beijing-based Moonshot AI made history with the release of its latest model, Kimi K3. At 2.8 trillion parameters, K3 is the largest open-weight model ever released—and by early accounts, it is not only competitive with America’s best closed systems, but trades blows with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 on mainstream benchmarks. For…