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A belated happy birthday to Ruth Bader Ginsburg! The Notorious RBG turned 83 on Tuesday. To celebrate, we could talk about her new book, her jabots, or her history fighting with the Dean of Harvard Law, but we’re going to focus on what really matters instead: her work. Here are Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s five most […]

Artificial intelligence is finally jumping off the pages of sci-fi novels and into reality — and we’re not just talking about the Roomba. Tech companies are starting to make real advances into AI, really quickly. Now, some of them are applying those advances to the legal industry, in IBM’s ROSS platform and the Microsoft-backed contract […]

Things just got a little brighter for lawyers in the Sunshine state. FindLaw now has the best, easiest to use Florida statutes around. Need to check out Florida incorporation laws? Here you go. Want to see if you need a license before selling that yacht? FindLaw’s got you covered. Curious about Florida alligator laws? We’ve […]

The U.S. Justice Department recently sent a letter to state and local courts warning them about constitutional concerns prompted by overly burdensome fees placed on poor and indigent defendants. The correspondence took the form of a “dear colleague letter” and has been used to “push the boundaries of civil rights law,” at least according to […]Read More

When James Kennedy criticized his employer Chipotle over their wages in the form of a Tweet, he found himself suddenly without a job. According to the opinion of ALJ Susan A. Flynn, Chipotle’s actions ran afoul of the National Labor Relations Act. In a somewhat embarrassing twist for Chipotle, the company is also being forced […]

This morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Colorado’s legalized marijuana brought by neighboring states Oklahoma and Nebraska. Both Oklahoma and Nebraska had sued the state over instate crime connected to Colorado’s legal weed industry. The denial should calm the nerves of marijuana enthusiasts, as the case threatened to end Colorado’s experiment […]Read More

Over the weekend, we witnessed what was perhaps the most surreal incident to occur at a Trump rally yet when a protester, dressed in an American flag shirt and donning a KKK hood was punched and then repeatedly kicked by a black Trump supporter who apparently did not appreciate the implication that some folks in […]

Last June, China’s stock market miracle ended in tears. The SHCOMP’s inexorable, parabolic ascent was to a large degree facilitated by an explosion of margin debt, the likes of which could not be found in any other major market across the globe. For instance, by the end of June, the outstanding balance of margin transactions […]

It is a quiet start to the week: in the US we have the Chicago Fed’s National Activity index (CFNAI) numbers for February (0.25 expected; 0.28 prior) which missed badly as noted earlier, printing negative after a sharp upward revision to the January number, as well as the latest existing home sales data (5.31mn expected) […]Read More

Existing home sales plunged 7.1% MoM in February, massively missing expectations of a 3.0% drop. Absent the regulation-driven drop in November, this is the largest MoM drop since July 2010 as realtors warn that “home prices and rents outpacing wages and anxiety about the health of the economy are holding back a segment of would-be […]

By Wolf Richter, WOLF STREET Companies are still borrowing and spending billions on buying back their own shares – one of the big drivers behind the blistering stock market rally of the past few years. It worked wonderfully and without fail. But suddenly, it’s doing the opposite, and now the shares of the biggest buyback […]

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