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We all know the feeling, at least in our fantasy life: The unique sense of control in playing with how to outsmart some financial institution - even if illegal. Actually, especially if illegal.  For UK associate in loans at Ashurst Perkins Coie Kieran Ferguson that was a reality.  And, as usual, it went very wrong. The designated watchers got to be watchers because they know every trick in the book. As fun Brit legal tabloid RollonFriday reports today Ferguson did one of those additions on an insurance policy for a particular personal-property item. The insurer was Laka, a specialist in cycling items. The legal issue was that the bike had already been stolen before the date of coverage. As we all know, insurance firms are no slouches for detecting possible fraud. He was charged by the Solicitors Regulation Authority with dishonesty and lack of integrity. In his defense Ferguson got cute: " ... he claimed that he had mistakenly believed he could use his policy to cover the los...

  The surprise is not that 20-cents a word is currently being paid content-creators - and that many on the Reddit post consider that "good pay." The stunner during Q2 2026 is that there really are those who continue to hope to earn a living as generalist writers. You know, preparing material for this or that publication, blog or brand. They're not, for example, in Executive Communications which has bounced back and pays the big bucks. As a number of comments on that Reddit post hammer: Gone for at least two years has been the one to two dollars a word. No indication among them that it's coming back. They, like myself, had exited. A bit of grieving went on. And that was that, at least for us. Meanwhile, those sticking with it let the world know how much they love writing, how good they are at it and how little they are getting paid should they be lucky enough to land assignments or an actual job. That denial of reality mirrors the mindset of some of the middle-aged mi...

  1) There could be less money to transfer. Dow futures this morning are again down. This time almost 500 points. Plenty of Debbie Downers are predicting a crash. It takes time for investments to bounce back. A crash is a whole different entity than a correction. 2) Illness during longevity might wipe that wealth . And, 3) Those who were supposed to inherit actually are taking on debt to finance care for parents. Recall the iconic Billie Holiday song: God bless the child who has his own. In coaching I guide financial independence. UPDATE: Dow Jones Industrial Average Index Index: DJI Compare 51,863.44 USD ▼ -355.14 (-0.68%) today Career Paths? So Over. It’s about Earning a Good Living. No matter what. Complimentary consultation. No Pressure. Street-smart Guidance. Contact Jane Genova janegenova374@gmail.com.

  The rogue OpenAI bots including GPT-5.6 Sol saw a shortcut to their objective of answering a benchmarking question. So, as the world knows this morning, it hacked Hugging Face, an open-source tool. A comment to the coverage of this predicted peril of AI reads: "This is not frightening, it's devastating news for every human in the world." Indeed it is. Just like the disclosures from the Jeffrey Epstein files were.  Those emails documented the all-too-human trait of pulling off whatever the players assumed they could - and being totally sure of getting away with it. The motivations for the shortcuts ranged from funding for noble ventures such as supporting the humanities to convenient access (hey, come to dinner) to ruling-class networks for developing business.  A genius at sizing up human nature, Epstein exploited that darkness. The leaders in AI probably also probably are brilliantly aware of the amoral capability of the bots. This latest development provides further...

It's the US' 250th anniversary of its founding as a nation. But the bad guys it had broken away from - the British - are gaining an upper hand in the prestigious lucrative legal sector.  The latest on what might be called The British Invasion is this: UK-headquartered Linklaters generated in the US market for fiscal 2026 a 39% surge in profit. That compares with only a 7% boost in its home market, the UK. Also, as many remember, it poached from Paul, Weiss two FIFA partners Chris Boehning and Daniel Levi. Some read this as a sign that Paul, Weiss remains vulnerable to losing partners, Bloomberg Law reports on Linklaters's strategy: "Crossborder deals work is key for the firm as it continues to ramp up in the US market. 'We are building a brand in the US rather than having a brand in the US,' said [managing partner Paul] Lewis. 'And as things currently stand, we know that it’s building on trajectory.'” On Bloomberg Law's M&A index Linklaters ran...

  It was investment-guidance god Warren Buffett who hammered that a business needs an "economic moat." That is, the unique competitive advantage that impedes entry into their force field. Good advice, at least until recently when so much disruption has made many of those moats fragile. Castles are being plundered. Classic is IBM's. Today the stock closed at $212.67, down from the 52-week high of $332.46. Barron's directly addresses the weakening of the moat: "[Anthropic's]  COBOL modernization  ... for its Claude Code tool ... could dramatically streamline updates to the outdated programming language that runs on IBM mainframes ...  the immense complexity and cost of migrating off these systems protected IBM’s highly profitable mainframe business ..." Going, then gone could be that moat protection. No surprise then that Stefan Stolinski, BNP Paribas analyst, warns against buying IBM on the dip. He doesn't estimate too much organic growth for IBM. Th...

BusinessInsider, professional anonymous networks Reddit and Blind and client sessions with me all scream out the same professional horror: Unemployed and with their old jobs not coming back, they are no longer a star. In fact, they are no longer in demand. Driving that are the return of Friedman Doctrine of the primacy of shareholder value , cost-efficiency, AI, offshoring and also the aging of societies. Meanwhile, the law of supply and demand has mutated into a binary entity. There are stars and there are the expendables. This was first signaled in 2021 in the legal sector in a Bloomberg Law interview with Paul, Weiss partner Brad Karp. He was direct: A law firm without a marque of stars wouldn't grow. Without growth, it probably would go out of business.  That reality has taken over myriad other sectors. So, what do you do if you either have lost your twinkle or the grid on which you twinkled has collapsed? Among the latter are content-creation, graphic design, much of marketin...