A former FBI agent who is an expert in stolen art chats with business reporter Stuart Pfeifer and deputy business editor Joe Bel Bruno following the theft of $10 million in artworks from bond king Jeffrey Gundlach's Santa Monica home. Retired FBI agent Robert K. Wittman said wealthy individuals can afford to buy expensive paintings but often don't take the precautions necessary to protect them. That's why it's much more common for valuable art to be stolen from private individuals' homes than from museums and galleries, he said. Read more at http://goo.gl/NraE8
The great sorting
-
College is supposed to be the road to opportunity for young Americans,
writes Tara Westover, who was the first in her family to go to college, in
the New Y...
Iran Rules Out Meeting Between Trump and Rouhani
-
Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the possibility of a meeting between
President Hassan Rouhani and President Trump during the United Nations
General Assem...
AI: Our New Best Friend
-
- We're entering the fourth wave of the Industrial Revolution, says
Genevieve Bell, cultural anthropologist and fellow at Intel. You can chart
...
-
**Frederick Douglass** (1870): _[The Cause of Death of Robert E.
Lee](https://thereconstructionera.com/frederick-douglass-identifies-the-cause-of-death-of-r...
Links (9/13/19)
-
How we make decisions depends on how uncertain we are - EurekAlert! A new
Dartmouth study on how we use reward information for making choices shows
how hum...
In Case You Missed It...
-
This week at CBPP, we focused on the new Census data on poverty, incomes,
and health coverage; federal taxes; Social Security; housing; and the
economy.
Transitioning ThinkProgress
-
Many years ago, we embarked on a new experiment: moving ThinkProgress from
an organizational blog to a progressive news site, powered by reporters and
edit...
The US Treasury’s missed opportunity
-
The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports
designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US
financial system ...
The search for the best middle-class tax cut
-
Say you want to help struggling middle-class families by cutting their
taxes. Say you want to figure out an actually helpful plan to do that, and
not just ...
No comments:
Post a Comment