In November, California will vote on a proposal to levy a one-off 5% tax on the wealth of all billionaires in the state. Google co-founder and billionaire Sergey Brin has already spent US$100 million on political donations to a group opposing the tax. Brin is hoping to avoid a potential tax bill … [continued]
Bernie Sanders has proposed a sovereign wealth fund that would make the financial benefits of AI available to all Americans.
Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders are at opposite ends of the political spectrum. It seems there is only one thing they agree on — artificial intelligence is dangerous. A majority of Americans agree. Quinnipiac University, well known for its polling prowess, summarized the results of a recent poll about AI … [continued]
President Biden chose Earth Day 2024 to announce a $7 billion Solar For All program to expand access to clean energy for all Americans.
Bernie Sanders has a message for the US and China — learn to work together to confront global warming or doom us all.
Virtually all of those technologies are mature and robust today. We don’t need to invent a lot of new technology, we just need to deploy existing tech.
Senator Bernie Sanders asked an important question last week, and I answered it. Elon Musk agreed with me on this by sharing his response on Twitter. The question was simple. “When future generations ask us what we did to stop the climate crisis, how will we answer?” In my opinion, … [continued]
Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, took to Yahoo Finance Live this week to talk about Tesla as well as the addition of Rivian to the EV industry. The host led with Tesla’s decline in market cap value and asked Ross how much of the decline … [continued]
This equates to a roughly $4 billion annual subsidy to the US nuclear industry, in addition to the $1.6 billion in permanent tax breaks in the US federal tax code.
Bernie Sanders doesn’t like Elon Musk. In some ways, I get it. It sucks to see people like Jeff Bezos buying a mega-yacht while there are people without access to clean water, decent shelter, or even regular meals elsewhere in the United States. There’s a big mistake in the man’s … [continued]
