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Welcome to the SP Roundup, my daily fantasy baseball article reviewing every starting pitcher’s performance from every Sunday game. I apologize for the jokes written in my delirium in advance. Have questions? Ask me during my office hours on Playback.tv weekday mornings from 10 am-12 pm ET. Lance McCullers Jr. (HOU) @ CHW (ND) – 3.2 IP, 0 ER, 3 Hits, 3 BBs, 4 Ks – 6 Whiffs, 22% CSW, 87 pitches. After years on the shelf, Lance McCullers Jr. made his return to the bump and showcased the same inefficiencies we saw in the past: 3.2 IP, 0 ER, 3…

A Bergen County woman was sentenced to three years in prison and must pay back over $1 million after admitting to filing 177 false tax returns on behalf of clients, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Joshlyn Raye, 49, of Elmwood Park previously pleaded guilty to aiding and assisting in preparing false tax returns, tax evasion and filing a false declaration regarding a quarterly employment statement on behalf of her company. Between March 2010 and September 2023, Raye knowingly filed a dozens of false tax returns on behalf of herself, her clients and her business, officials said. Raye was…

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It’s definitely not the kind of message most workers want to see hit their inbox from the higher ups but that’s exactly what Micha Kaufman, founder and CEO of the freelance platform Fiverr, wrote in an internal memo to his staff in April.“AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call. It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson, or a finance person – AI is coming for you,” wrote Kaufman.Kaufman has since circulated the note publicly on social media.…

“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” -Warren Buffett The Wall Street Journal highlighted a new study showing that the median investor spends just six minutes researching a stock before buying it. It’s no wonder the average holding period for a stock has dropped from roughly 8-10 years back in the 1950s and 1960s to just a few months today. If you don’t know much about what you own it’s going to be hard to hold onto it for very long if it doesn’t make you rich overnight. This short-term mentality is…

Quick Take Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. Visa plans to let AI chatbots access customers’ credit cards.The initiative aims to enable AI agents to handle shopping autonomously.Visa is collaborating with leading AI developers like OpenAI, Perplexity. In a move that appears straight out of a Black Mirror episode, Visa is planning to give Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots access to customers’ credit cards to buy goods for them. After a user has set their preferences and budget, these AI agents will be able to find and buy clothes, groceries or an aeroplane ticket on their own, according to an Associated…

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The Japanese Yen reverses an intraday dip amid sustained demand for traditional safe-haven assets.The divergent BoJ-Fed expectations turn out to be another factor underpinning the lower-yielding JPY.The USD/JPY bears look forward to the crucial Fed decision on Wednesday before placing fresh bets.The Japanese Yen (JPY) attracts fresh buyers following an intraday dip and turns higher against its American counterpart for the third successive day on Tuesday amid a combination of supporting factors. With the latest leg down, the JPY has now reversed its losses, led by the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) dovish pause last Thursday. Moreover, a combination of supporting…

Freelancers in the UK film industry could end up jobless if Donald Trump applies a 100% tariff to non-US movies, a producer has warned. The US president announced on Sunday that he has authorised government departments to impose the tariff “on any and all movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands”. Industry figures have warned the plans “could deal a knock-out blow” to the UK film sector. Kirsty Bell, chief executive of production company Goldfinch, said the entertainment industry is in decline “across the whole of the Western world” but said tariffs are not the answer.…

The Trump administration’s plan to trim the IRS workforce has resulted in almost one-third of its tax auditors leaving the agency through March, according to a report from the U.S. Treasury Department’s watchdog.Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has sought to trim the federal workforce through a combination of layoffs and so-called deferred resignation. Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, said on the electric vehicle maker’s April 22 earnings call that DOGE’s efforts “in addressing waste and fraud” will “get the country back on track.”The IRS has been a focus of DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts, with plans to trim as much…