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June 2026
Federal Register · Jun 11 Rescinding Portions of Department of Transportation's Title VI Regulations To Conform More Closely With the Statutory Text and To Implement Executive Order 14281 US Department of Transportation will no longer punish unintentional discrimination
EUR-Lex · Jun 9 Commission Decision (EU) 2026/1283 of 9 June 2026 establishing the Battery Booster Facility and serving as financing decision for 2026 Europe's new battery fund starts in 2026
BIS · Jun 11 The anatomy of stablecoin transactions Nearly 60% of stablecoin activity is complex finance, not simple payments
Federal Register · Jun 2 Pipeline Safety: Breakout Tank Inspection Rule Pipeline operators can now write their own inspection schedules (more or less)
Federal Register · Jun 2 Notice of Vacatur Regarding Certain Provisions of the 2024 Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities Final Rule Federal courts just erased trans health protections from the ACA rulebook
NDRC · Jun 2 关于在云霄直流开展输电权市场化交易的通知(发改体改〔2026〕734号) Power companies in China can now bid for space on a major power line
May 2026
Federal Register · Jun 1 Rescission of Title V Emergency Affirmative Defense Rule A court forces US environmental regulators to restore a pollution loophole
EUR-Lex · May 26 Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1118 of 26 May 2026 refusing to authorise a health claim made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children’s development and health EU food companies can no longer make general health claims on packaging
Federal Register · May 29 Zero-Based Regulating Energy regulations now expire automatically unless the agency actively renews them
Federal Register · May 29 Zero-Based Regulating Every federal energy rule now has an expiration date
NDRC · May 20 关于有序推动多用户绿电直连发展有关事项的通知(发改能源〔2026〕688号) China is letting factories build their own private green power grids
Federal Register · May 29 Montana Regulatory Program Montana changed the legal definition of water pollution to keep coal mines open
Federal Register · May 27 Revisions to the Blanket Certificate Program Gas pipelines can now bypass the public to build bigger projects
NDRC · May 25 关于2026—2028年棉花目标价格政策的通知(发改价格〔2026〕733号) China ties cotton subsidies to water use, pushing farmers out of dry regions
Federal Register · May 28 Food Additive Petition From Environmental Defense Fund, et al.; Request To Amend the Food Additive Regulations To Remove the Solvents Benzene, Ethylene Dichloride, Methylene Chloride, and Trichloroethylene; Reopening of the Comment Period FDA is moving to ban cancer-causing solvents from our food
Federal Register · May 22 Rescinding Portions of Department of the Interior Title VI Regulations To Conform More Closely With the Statutory Text and To Implement Executive Order 14281 Interior Department removes rule against policies that accidentally harm minority groups
Federal Register · May 22 Amendment of United States Area Navigation Route T-306 and Establishment of United States Area Navigation Route T-647 Southwest airspace gets new flight paths to untangle crowded skies
Federal Register · May 22 Removal of Environmental Clearance Officer Review and Comment for Assessments for Projects Over 200 Lots/Dwelling Units or Beds Federal housing regulators cut an environmental review step for large projects
Federal Register · May 22 Prohibition of Remote Dispatching Flight dispatchers are banned from the bedroom
NBS · May 22 2025年全国1%人口抽样调查主要数据公报 China's bottomless pool of cheap labor is gone
Federal Register · May 22 Aluminum in Pesticide Formulations; Exemption From the Requirement for a Tolerance Pesticide makers can now use aluminum in seed coatings without proving its safety
NDRC · May 22 关于印发《推进生态综合补偿实施方案》的通知(发改振兴〔2026〕697号) Beijing pays the provinces to keep the water clean
Federal Register · May 21 Rescission of Policy Regarding Denials in Settlements of Enforcement Actions Wall Street targets can finally talk back
SAM.gov · May 21 Mobile Targets MATOC(s) US military training will use mobile targets, bought on multi-year contracts
World Bank · May 20 Closing the Doors : Sexual Harassment and the Survival Rates of Women-owned Firms Harassment makes women's businesses fail, even when they're profitable
SAM.gov · May 20 Award Notice - N6600126D0058 A defense contractor just won $349 million. The government did not say what for.
World Bank · May 18 Tax Evasion and the Contribution-Benefit Link : The Case of Parental Benefits in Hungary and Latvia Linking social benefits to contributions can backfire, costing governments more
World Bank · May 18 Do Socio-Emotional Skills Pay Off and Can They Be Developed Through Training ? A Meta-Analysis Adults can learn the personality traits that boost their wages
BIS · May 21 Elasticity of money in production networks, working capital, credit lines and financial conditions The credit lines that keep supply chains moving disappear when money gets tight
Federal Register · May 21 Visual Post-Mortem Inspection in Swine Slaughter Establishments US pork plants can skip manual checks, relying on visual inspection
SAM.gov · May 20 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) Containerized Launcher (CL) and Remote Interceptor Guidance 360 Degrees (RIG-360) Containerized System (CS) Development and Demonstration New flexible missile launchers and 360-degree guidance get US military funds
NBS · May 18 2026年1—4月份社会消费品零售总额增长1.9% China's big retailers saw sales shrink in April
NBS · May 18 2026年4月份能源生产情况 China's oil refineries cut output, even as crude production holds steady
NBS · May 18 2026年1—4月份规模以上工业增加值增长5.6% Private firms and old industries shrink while China's high-tech output grows
NBS · May 18 1—4月份国民经济保持稳中有进发展态势 Private capital exits China's economy while state-backed tech investment grows
Federal Register · May 19 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reclassification of the Rough Popcornflower From Endangered to Threatened With a Section 4(d) Rule A rare plant is no longer endangered, easing land use rules
Federal Register · May 18 Marine Mammals; Incidental Take of Polar Bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea; Seismic Exploration Activities by SAExploration, Inc. Oil explorers can now get permits to accidentally harm polar bears in Alaska
Federal Register · May 15 Promoting the Integrity and Security of Telecommunications Certification Bodies, Measurement Facilities, and the Equipment Authorization Program The US government will now fast-track approvals for trusted telecom equipment
Federal Register · May 15 Request for Information on Modified Organisms Subject to the Plant Protection Act The USDA wants help approving more GMO plants
Federal Register · May 15 Licensing Requirements for Microreactors and Other Reactors With Comparable Risk Profiles Small, advanced nuclear reactors can finally get licensed on their own terms
Federal Register · May 12 Rescission of Conservation and Landscape Health Rule The government just removed a rule meant to protect federal lands. It was less than a month old.
Federal Register · May 15 Promoting the Integrity and Security of Telecommunications Certification Bodies, Measurement Facilities, and the Equipment Authorization Program US regulators will no longer accept product safety tests from certain countries
Federal Register · May 18 Implementing the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act for the Issuance of Stablecoins by Entities Subject to the Jurisdiction of the National Credit Union Administration Credit unions can now issue stablecoins, but only through a separate company
SAM.gov · May 12 FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Actuary Support Services. FEMA hires actuaries to reprice flood risk for the first time in decades
NBER · May 1 Anti-Harassment Policy and the Startup Labor Market Laws meant to protect women make it harder to get hired, but easier to get promoted
NBER · May 1 Algorithmic Credentialism AI hiring tools that demand degrees now face civil rights challenges
Federal Register · May 13 Modernizing Spectrum Sharing for Satellite Broadband Satellite companies can now deliver faster internet to rural homes
arXiv · May 13 Beyond Manual Curation: Augmenting Targeted Protein Degradation Databases via Agentic Literature Extraction Workflows Drug discovery databases just grew 90% bigger, thanks to AI pulling data from old papers
Federal Register · May 14 Airworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes More Airbus planes now need stricter maintenance rules
SAM.gov · May 15 Integration and redesign the Digital Map Computer (DMC)/Digital Video Map Computer (DVMC), and Flight Control Computer (FCC) in support of the F/A-18 E/F & EA-18/G Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance Systems (AGCAS) program F/A-18 jets get software to pull themselves out of a dive.
World Bank · May 15 Guidance for Policymakers on the Role of Domestic Carbon Pricing and International Carbon Credit Markets in Achieving LTSs and NDCs : Executive Summary Carbon markets stop being an economic side project
Federal Register · May 15 Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees; Implementation of Federal Court Judgments Salaried workers lose their overtime protection. Again.
World Bank · May 12 Rollout of the Standardized Crediting Framework : Results, Impact, and Lessons Learned Developing countries just bypassed the carbon market middlemen
Federal Register · May 12 Restoring Flexibility in the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) States no longer must cap child care costs for families, or pay providers predictably
NBER · May 1 Separations Revisited: Do Layoffs or Quits Drive Lower Separation Rates in High-Quality Firms? High-productivity firms protect jobs from layoffs, not because workers stay
NBER · May 1 Breaking the Early Bell: Lessons from the First Statewide Mandate on School Start Times California admits teens just aren't morning people
NBER · May 1 Building Opportunity: The Intergenerational Effects of Chilean School Construction Building primary schools pays back 13 times over, for generations of girls
NBER · May 1 Labor Market Effects of California’s $20 Fast-Food Minimum Wage California's $20 fast-food wage made workers stay, not leave
NBER · May 1 The Persistence of Power: How Family Origins Shape Political Representation and Policy US political power has always run in rich families, and they vote against taxes
NBER · May 1 Authority Figures and the Polarization of Gender Norms Female mentors make women more egalitarian. They also make men more conservative.
Federal Register · May 11 Rescinding Requirements Regarding Required Contract Provisions for Federal-Aid Construction Contracts (Other Than Appalachian Contracts) The government stops pretending to audit highway hiring
Federal Register · May 7 Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (DFARS Case 2024-D021) Defense contractors must now report their greenhouse gas emissions
EUR-Lex · Apr 20 Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/859 of 20 April 2026 amending Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) as regards 2,4-dinitrotoluene in articles Car safety features shouldn't cause cancer
NBS · Apr 16 2026年1—3月份全国固定资产投资增长1.7% China’s private money is quietly exiting
World Bank · May 8 Identification for Development (ID4D) : Building Statelessness-Sensitive ID Systems The World Bank wants digital ID systems to stop excluding stateless people
Federal Register · May 8 Combatting Illegal Robocalls Through FCC Numbering Policies; Implementation of TRACED Act-Knowledge of Customers by Entities With Access to Numbering Resources Phone companies might lose their numbers if they enable robocalls
Federal Register · May 8 Medical Devices; Obstetrical and Gynecological Devices; Classification of the External Condom for Anal Intercourse or Vaginal Intercourse Condom labels finally catch up to how people have sex
NDRC · Apr 24 关于修订省间电力现货交易规则的复函(发改办体改〔2026〕275号) China tells its provinces to stop hoarding power
Federal Register · May 7 Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Mitigating Risks Related to Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (DFARS Case 2021-D011) The Pentagon finally wants to know who it’s actually paying
World Bank · Apr 29 Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in the Sahel : A Regional Brief Covering Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger Investing in adolescent girls in the Sahel now has a 10x return, World Bank says
NBER · May 1 The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches Locking up student phones doesn't make them smarter, just happier
NBER · May 1 Mosaics of Predictability Fifty years of data just broke the random walk theory.
NBER · May 1 Taxes and Financial Distress: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data Corporate taxes mostly hurt the businesses that can't move
NBER · May 1 Automation, Learning, and Career Dynamics Cheaper automation officially becomes a trap for workers who cannot learn new skills fast enough
World Bank · Apr 29 The Livestock Sector at a Crossroads : Transitioning the Livestock Sector for Sustainable and Inclusive Development in the Western Balkans, Moldova, and Ukraine The EU is pricing small Eastern European farms out of existence
Federal Register · Apr 29 Revisions to Regulations Regarding Oil and Gas Leasing; Fees, Rentals, and Royalties The hundred-year discount on federal oil and gas drilling just ended
NBS · Apr 30 2025年农民工监测调查报告 Coastal factories lose their endless supply of inland labor
SAM.gov · May 1 6515--IMPLANTS-WISE SYSTEM- CLEVELAND The military stops squeezing failing hearts and starts fixing their wiring
SAM.gov · Apr 15 Private Astronaut Missions 5 and 6 Flight Opportunities Source Selection Statement NASA will buy seats on private space missions, not just build its own
Federal Register · Apr 17 Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; Legacy/CCRMU Amendments The EPA just made toxic waste invisible
arXiv · Apr 17 Agentic AI and Occupational Displacement: A Multi-Regional Task Exposure Analysis of Emerging Labor Market Disruption You will be out of work by 2030
Federal Register · Apr 17 Prohibition on the Use of Reputation Risk by Regulators Public outrage is no longer a "risk" for banks
BIS · Mar 12 A public-private partnership? Central bank funding and credit supply Central banks can stimulate the economy with money no one takes
NBER · Apr 17 The Empathy Channel in Fertility People have babies when they see babies, not when they get a tax break
April 2026
Federal Register · Apr 14 Differential Pay for Prescribed Wildland Fire Activities Firefighters finally get hazard pay for the fires they start on purpose.
arXiv · Apr 14 Unifying Ontology Construction and Semantic Alignment for Deterministic Enterprise Reasoning at Scale AI can now build its own filing system to read the data companies pay to ignore.
World Bank · Apr 1 Sustainable Energy for Schools and Health Centers : Public–Private Partnerships for People’s Prosperity Schools and clinics in poor countries can now buy electricity as a service instead of owning broken solar panels
NBER · Apr 1 Profit Regulation and Strategic Transfer Pricing by Vertically Integrated Firms: Evidence from Health Care Insurers used their own pharmacies to bypass Medicare profit caps
Federal Register · Apr 13 Airworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes Airlines must actually fix Airbus radios instead of just warning pilots
NDRC · Feb 10 关于加快招标投标领域人工智能推广应用的实施意见 China is using AI to strip local officials of their power to rig contracts
NDRC · Jan 30 关于完善发电侧容量电价机制的通知(发改价格〔2026〕114号) The death of guaranteed coal income
Federal Register · Apr 10 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Programs Banks must now prove their anti-money laundering programs actually stop money laundering
NDRC · Jan 30 关于完善发电侧容量电价机制的通知 China stops paying power plants to exist and starts paying them to perform
Federal Register · Apr 1 Whistleblower Incentives and Protections Treasury turns bank compliance officers into paid informants.
Federal Register · Mar 31 Review of the Commission's Rules Governing the 896-901/935-940 MHz Band Spectrum that couldn't do broadband gets three new ways to try
Federal Register · Apr 10 Collection of Checks and Other Items by Federal Reserve Banks and Funds Transfers Through the Fedwire Funds Service and the FedNow Service; Regulation J Cross-border payments can now use the US domestic network for the first time.
Federal Register · Apr 2 NRC Reviews of Reactor Designs Previously Authorized by U.S. Department of Energy or Department of War The Pentagon is now a nuclear regulatory shortcut
Federal Register · Apr 1 Pipeline Safety: Class Location Change Requirements; Response to Petition for Reconsideration Neighborhoods grew. The law finally noticed.
Federal Register · Apr 9 Modernizing Requirements Relating to Physical Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material Dirty bomb security finally gets a construction bill.
Federal Register · Apr 9 Spectrum Abundance for Weird Space Stuff FCC frees spectrum for spacecraft that was empty all along
Federal Register · Apr 10 Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism Program and Sanctions Compliance Program Requirements Stablecoin issuers spent years moving money without knowing who sent it
SAM.gov · Apr 7 VIRGINIA Class Submarines Lead Yard Support and Development Studies and Design efforts Navy pays $2.5 billion to keep submarine factory ready, not to buy submarines
Federal Register · Apr 3 National Environmental Policy Act USDA quietly grants itself the power to decide which projects need environmental review
NDRC · Dec 23 关于促进光热发电规模化发展的若干意见(发改能源〔2025〕1645号) China is keeping the turbines. It's just swapping the fuel for mirrors.
NDRC · Dec 31 关于促进电网高质量发展的指导意见 China orders its power grid rebuilt around distributed solar and wind — not centralized coal plants
SAM.gov · Apr 9 Late-stage development, FDA marketing authorization, procurement, and stockpile of antibiotics for the treatment of drug-resistant secondary bacterial infections and/or the treatment or PEP of infections caused by biothreat pathogens. The Pentagon effectively nationalizes the antibiotic pipeline
NBER · Apr 1 Why Do Americans No Longer Work So Much More Than Non-Americans? Americans worked more than Europeans because of health insurance forms, not values
NBER · Mar 1 Early-Life Sugar Restrictions Reduce Genetic Disparities in Adult Adiposity Genetic obesity risk loses its "fixed sentence" status
Federal Register · Apr 2 Revised Mailing Standards for Firearms Justice Department ends 108-year postal firearms ban
NBS · Mar 16 2026年1—2月份全国固定资产投资同比增长1.8% China reports 1.8% investment growth. Private investment is down 2.6%.
NBS · Mar 16 2026年1—2月份全国房地产市场基本情况 Homebuyers officially resign as China's primary creditors
NBER · Apr 1 Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis Same patient, same doctor, 28% more likely admitted when the doctor is overwhelmed
NBER · Mar 1 Cash Transfers and Productive Inclusion: Evidence from Bolsa Familia Giving poor people money helps get them jobs
NBER · Mar 1 In the Fed’s Mind US central bank sees inflation differently based on its cause
NBER · Apr 1 Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Expansion of the Global Agricultural Frontier Extreme heat makes farmers clear more forests to plant crops
arXiv · Mar 30 Ruka-v2: Tendon Driven Open-Source Dexterous Hand with Wrist and Abduction for Robot Learning $1300 open source robot hands
arXiv · Mar 30 "Oops! ChatGPT is Temporarily Unavailable!": A Diary Study on Knowledge Workers' Experiences of LLM Withdrawal Workers given four days without AI discover they forgot how to work
arXiv · Apr 6 Automatic Textbook Formalization AI formalized a graduate math textbook in one week for less than it costs to hire one expert
EUR-Lex · Mar 16 Council Decision (EU) 2026/571 of 16 March 2026 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the Preparatory Commission and at the first Conference of the Parties to the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction Half the ocean had no rules for 40 years. Now comes the part where rules become real.
World Bank · Mar 30 Urban Heat, Mortality, and Economic Costs : Evidence from Bangkok, Thailand Bangkok spends less on public health than heat quietly costs in lives each year
EUR-Lex · Mar 3 Political and Security Committee Decision (CFSP) 2026/514 of 3 March 2026 on the appointment of the EU Force Commander for the European Union maritime security operation to safeguard freedom of navigation in relation to the Red Sea crisis (EUNAVFOR ASPIDES) (EUNAVFOR ASPIDES/2/2026) Europe stops asking the US Navy to babysit its trade routes, appoints its own commander
EIA · Mar 31 US Solar Generation: 57.3 TWh (Jan 2026) — +15.2% YoY Solar grew 15% in a year. The government ordered the old gas plants to stay open anyway.
EIA · Mar 31 US Coal Generation: 217.9 TWh (Jan 2026) — -12.9% YoY Coal hits 13% annual decline while government pays $615,000 a day to keep one plant running
Federal Register · Apr 3 GENIUS Act Broad-Based Principles for Determining Whether a State-Level Regulatory Regime Is Substantially Similar to the Federal Regulatory Framework Treasury decides which state crypto regulators are real, making fifty separate fights into one test
Federal Register · Apr 6 Medicare Program; Contract Year 2027 and Certain Contract Year 2026 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, and Medicare Cost Plan Program Medicare gave insurers an $18.6 billion raise by deleting the tests they were failing
Federal Register · Apr 6 Work Participation Rate Calculation Changes: Recalibration of the Caseload Reduction Credit and Prohibition of Small Checks in Work Participation Rate Calculation States lose 18-year-old welfare credits. Some were counting $1 monthly checks as job placements.
Federal Register · Mar 30 Risk-Informed, Technology-Inclusive Regulatory Framework for Advanced Reactors New reactor designs no longer have to pretend they're from the 1960s
World Bank · Feb 28 Security and Emissions Constrained Dispatch : Model and Case Study for India - Technical Report (including the GAMS Source Code) India's grid operators can finally price the emissions cost of keeping the lights on.
World Bank · Mar 19 Willingness-to-Pay for Emerging Technologies : A Study of Hydrogen Demand in the Ammonia Industry World Bank finally asks ammonia makers if they will actually buy hydrogen. The answer has a price.
Federal Register · Mar 30 Microbiology Devices; Reclassification of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Cell-Mediated Immunity Tests and Immune Response Enzyme-Linked Immunospot Tests FDA finally loosens approval rules for TB tests, fifteen years after first trying
EUR-Lex · Mar 16 Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/588 of 16 March 2026 amending Decision (CFSP) 2019/797 concerning restrictive measures against cyber-attacks threatening the Union or its Member States EU stops asking all 27 countries nicely before punishing cyber attackers
EUR-Lex · Mar 16 Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/612 of 16 March 2026 in support of a global reporting mechanism on illicit conventional arms and their ammunition to reduce the risk of their diversion and illicit transfer (‘iTrace VI’) The EU's 'new' arms tracking system is thirteen years old and just got renewed again
EUR-Lex · Mar 17 Council Decision (EU) 2026/714 of 17 March 2026 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the 237th session of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as regards the adoption of the amendment to Annex 13 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation Aviation accident probes can no longer be quietly buried. It took thirteen years to write that down.
NDRC · Mar 17 关于在全社会推进儿童友好建设的意见 China redesigns its entire society around its most important resource, its children. Aww.
NDRC · Apr 3 关于印发《全国公共信用信息基础目录(2026年版)》和《全国失信惩戒措施基础清单(2026年版)》的通知 China rewrites the blacklist rulebook. Restrictions on travel, loans, and jobs now have sharper triggers.
World Bank · Apr 2 Democratic Republic of Congo Economic Update, March 2026 : From Parking Lot to Fast Lane - Reforming State-Owned Enterprises, Congo's government-run companies are bleeding money: the World Bank says sell them off
World Bank · Mar 5 Incentivizing Transition of Census Towns to Statutory Towns for the 16th Central Finance Commission of India India's ghost cities may finally get legal existence, if state governments agree to give up control
World Bank · Mar 18 Responding to Floods in Pakistan with Adaptive Social Protection : How to Keep an Inundated Country Afloat Pakistan builds a flood aid system that pays people before the bureaucrats finish arguing
arXiv · Mar 30 Development of a European Union Time-Indexed Reference Dataset for Assessing the Performance of Signal Detection Methods in Pharmacovigilance using a Large Language Model Europeans can finally test drug safety alerts against "real" timelines
arXiv · Mar 30 The Competence Shadow: Theory and Bounds of AI Assistance in Safety Engineering AI safety tools are causing engineers to stop thinking, and the math now proves it makes things worse
EIA · Mar 31 US Battery Storage Capacity: 43,232 MW (Jan 2026) The grid solved its storage problem. Washington is paying to ignore it.
Federal Register · Mar 27 Regulatory Capital Rules: Regulatory Capital and Standardized Approach for Risk-Weighted Assets Banks lobbied a capital rule to death twice. The third version, they welcomed.
March 2026
EUR-Lex · Mar 11 Regulation (EU) 2026/667 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2026 amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 as regards the setting of a Union intermediate climate target for 2040 Europe just closed the door on industries counting on a slower path to net-zero.
Federal Register · Mar 27 Regulatory Capital Rule: Category I and II Banking Organizations, Banking Organizations With Significant Trading Activity, and Optional Adoption for Other Banking Organizations Banks graded their own capital tests for a decade. Regulators just tried to stop that. The banks are winning.
arXiv · Mar 30 Advancing AI Trustworthiness Through Patient Simulation: Risk Assessment of Conversational Agents for Antidepressant Selection Healthcare AI builds fake patients, for some reason
World Bank · Mar 17 The Real Price of Going Electric : Benchmarking E-Bus Transition Costs in LAC World Bank finally counts what electric buses actually cost. Latin American cities can stop guessing.
World Bank · Mar 18 Conflicts and Firm Outcomes : Evidence from the West Bank and Gaza over the Last Decade (2016–25) Ten years of data confirm Palestinian economy degrades between wars, not just during them
World Bank · Mar 19 Is Place-Based Green Industrial Policy Effective ? Evidence from the Inflation Reduction Act World Bank checks whether the IRA's $369 billion actually moved factories, or just paid companies to do what they planned anyway
World Bank · Mar 16 Disruption without Dividend ? How the Digital Divide and Task Differences Split GenAI’s Global Impact Poor countries get AI's layoffs before AI's benefits — the internet gap explains why
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Federal Register · May 20 Revision of Applications for Manufacturing and Procurement Quotas Drug makers must now detail controlled substance supply to prevent shortages
Federal Register · May 21 Authority of Drug Enforcement Administration Supervisory Diversion Investigators, Field Intelligence Managers, and Intelligence Group Supervisors To Sign and Issue Administrative Subpoenas More drug enforcement agents can now demand records without a judge