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Thu, 11/09/2025 - 16:21
Last Tuesday (September 9, 2025), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics published a news release – Preliminary benchmark revision for March payroll employment is -911,000 (-0.6%) – which told us that its employment estimates for the current year are likely to be significantly overstated. Given that the BLS has been under intense political scrutiny in…
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Thu, 11/09/2025 - 04:35
Enligt färsk statistik från SCB fortsätter arbetslösheten i Sverige att stiga från en redan hög nivå och uppgår nu till nästan nio procent. Detta borde vara en tydlig signal om hur illa den ekonomiska politiken fungerar i dag. Trots detta lyser diskussionerna om den oacceptabelt höga arbetslösheten nästan helt med sin frånvaro i medierna. Med […]
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Thu, 11/09/2025 - 03:01

Ashley, can we talk about our driveway encounter the other day? I realize we don’t know each other very well, but let me just come right out and say it: Please don’t judge me for the fact that I was blasting the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack in my car.

Was it necessary for me to keep the music cranked to full volume while waiting for the track “Golden” to finish? Possibly not. At any rate, I recognize that my own singing may have impeded your full enjoyment of the song, given that the high notes are at least an octave out of range for my alto voice. But as an experienced high school choir girl who in 1998 was given a one-line solo in “Stormy Weather”—well, how can I keep from singing? And after hitting “repeat” on that track approximately a hundred times while driving around town the past week, I feel confident in saying that those high notes are starting to resemble a more human and less squeaky or animalistic sound. If I may say, I’m going “up, up, up with [my] voice.”

However, I did not mean to upset your dog.

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Wed, 10/09/2025 - 22:00

Angelico Schwartzkopf
and Jean-Paul Pudzianowski
Fine Art Authenticators

I. Introduction

As requested, herein is our authentication report on the artwork with catalogue number 45/47.

II. Alleged Artist’s Statement

Nearly all authentication disputes involve works allegedly created by long-dead artistic masters. In this case, however, the alleged artist is still alive and denounces the work in question as a forgery. However, many mature artists (and the alleged artist is very old, regardless of maturity level) renounce or even destroy artworks from their younger days to protect their reputations from association with earlier, less polished work. Thus, it is possible that the alleged artist is trying to disassociate himself from this work out of concern for his reputation.

What can be safely said is that whether the work is the creation of the alleged artist or a forgery, the creator wishes to remain anonymous. Thus, this report will scrupulously guard against revealing the identity of the alleged artist.