Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning take a look at incompetency, corruption and coverage failures:

• There have been greater than 600 mass shootings since January 2022: Mass shootings — the place 4 or extra folks, not together with the shooter, are injured or killed — have averaged a couple of per day since this time final yr. Not a single week in 2022 has handed with out a minimum of 4 mass shootings. (Washington Publish) see additionally Gun violence in US and what the statistics inform us: Amongst high-income international locations, the USA stands out for its excessive ranges of gun violence. Firearm accidents are typically extra frequent in locations the place folks have easy accessibility to firearms. (BBC) see additionally We Profiled the ‘Indicators of Disaster’ in 50 Years of Mass Shootings. This Is What We Discovered. These are abridged particulars from profiles of the suspected or convicted perpetrators of greater than 150 mass shootings in the USA.. (New York Instances)

• Tesla’s Hurting From Elon Musk’s Twitter Meltdowns. The Query Is: How A lot? Since Musk took over at Twitter, his spreading of conspiracy theories and his banning of journalists has eroded a lot of the goodwill towards him — and Tesla. (CNET)

• I’m a company fraud investigator. You wouldn’t imagine the hubris of the super-rich:  Whereas the fraudsters I’ve encountered are sometimes crafty, ultimately they get carried. (The Guardian)

• The Weight-Loss-Drug Revolution Is a Miracle—And a Menace: How the brand new weight problems capsules may upend American society (The Atlantic)

• Binance Volunteers Work for Swag and Hope for Jobs. It’s Elevating Purple Flags. The crypto change has a community of volunteers often called Binance Angels. (Barron’s)

• China’s International Mega-Initiatives Are Falling Aside: Lots of China’s Belt and Highway infrastructure tasks are plagued with development flaws, together with an enormous hydropower plant in Ecuador, including extra prices to a program criticized for main international locations deeper into debt (Wall Road Journal) see additionally They Poured Their Financial savings Into Houses That Have been By no means Constructed: Throughout the nation, as a substitute of house towers, uninhabitable concrete constructions stand up from idle, overgrown development websites. Infuriated homebuyers in additional than 100 cities rose up in a uncommon act of collective revolt final yr, vowing to not repay loans on unfinished properties. (New York Instances)

• Wind Generators Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over: Breakdowns of towers and blades have bedeviled producers within the US and Europe. (Businessweek)

• How Charlie Javice Bought JPMorgan to Pay $175 Million for … What Precisely? A younger founder promised to simplify the school monetary support course of. It was a compelling pitch. Particularly, as now appears seemingly, to these with little firsthand data of economic support. (New York Instances)

• ‘Reckless’: Fury amongst rights teams as Fb lifts Trump ban: Civil rights teams voice anger at ‘unethical’ determination, whereas others say the general public has an curiosity in listening to straight from candidates for political workplace. (The Guardian) see additionally Trump and Fb’s Mutual Decay: At the least the platform lastly added a consumer. (The Atlantic)

• Takeaways from Sundance’s secret Brett Kavanaugh documentary: Director Doug Liman introduced his new documentary on the competition. Then new ideas started pouring in. (Washington Publish)

Be sure you try our Masters in Enterprise interview this weekend with Neil Dutta, head of financial analysis at Renaissance Macro Analysis. He joined RenMac after spending seven years at Financial institution of America-Merrill Lynch, the place he was a Sr. economist protecting US + Canada. Previous to that, he was a analysis analyst at Barron’s.

In Western Democracies, extra weapons imply extra deaths

Supply: New York Instances

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