Serious damage can occur when our information winds up in the wrong hands with scammers targeting innocent people in any way that they can. The recent Optus and Medibank data breaches are more proof that widespread scams and fraud are mounting.
“Someone asked me to name two structures that hold water. I was like, well, damn.” As the storms continue to hit us in Northern California and Nevada, not only is my cat Myrtle ticked off, but we are reminded that it is either feast or famine in the Golden State. Take your pick, forest fires or biblical rain: Over 20 trillion gallons of water are supposed to fall on California in a two-week span. Yes, that’s with a “t.” Ratcheting back several decimal places, new estimates from the Census Bureau found that the U.S. population grew by only 0.38 percent from July 2021 to July 2022, which was the second-lowest growth on record behind just the 0.16 percent growth registered during the first year of the pandemic. The main thing increasing it was an increase in net immigration. To find comparably low rates one has to go back to the worst of the Great Depression, when growth was still a comparably robust 0.6 percent. All told, for those who don’t beli
Takeover and M&A rumors continue to swirl, and smarter companies are merely hiring production staff away from lenders rather than pay the baggage that may be associated with the target while some are selling servicing to help strategically or with cash flow. The MBA reports that our biz originated $4.1 trillion in 2020 and $4.4 trillion in 2021. 2022 is down from those numbers, and 2023 is expected to be $1.5-$2ish trillion, depending on who you ask, certainly less than half of 2021. It impacts everyone, but certainly with credit fees shooting up, credit reporting agencies (CRAs) are feeling the pressure and are being scrutinized by every lender. (See below for a full write up.) Want something else to worry about? Forgetting CRA feels and expensive mortgage leakage for a moment, how about the oil spill in Kansas that isn’t necessarily in the national press but will take years to clean up and cost billions? The Keystone pipeline has dumped an estimated 588,000 gallons
challenging a record, and we also have a huge increase in anti-semitic, anti-latino, anti-gay, anti-white, and you re not seeing it. i was involved in a study that was used in the promulgation of the hate crimes act, and we did it in the 80s, this is the worst presentation of data that we ve seen since 91. in 2012, there was an amending of the hate crime report, calling for the federal government to please amend these data. the average american resident will be totally confused because we re looking at inferences going up, possibly to a record, or at least getting near it, and instead, we re reporting a decline. and it is an incomplete report, which disproportionately hits the highest reporting agencies. there is a message that is confusing to the american public and what does it do to the fbi s ability to address these issue, and to address the rise and your
Here are this week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: .