Pretax Earnings: Definition, Use, How to Calculate, and Example

Pretax earnings refer to a company's income after all expenses have been deducted from total sales, but before income taxes have been subtracted.
Reuters

Some private credit firms are using accounting tools to mask leverage, Rubric Capital tells investors

LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Some private credit firms that borrow from retail investors may be embellishing their financial health, Rubric Capital, a $3 billion hedge fund founded by a former Point72 ...
Inside Higher Ed

Einstein Is Here

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Einstein is an AI bot described this way: “Einstein is an AI with a computer. He logs into Canvas ...
IEEE

Solution of Volume Integral Equation Using the Edge-MB Basis Functions for Inhomogeneous Dielectric Objects

Abstract: This letter proposes a volume integral equation (VIE) scheme with reduced unknowns for analyzing electromagnetic scattering from complex inhomogeneous dielectric objects. This scheme ...
The White House

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes a Temporary Import Duty to Address Fundamental International Payment Problems

PROTECTING THE U.S. ECONOMY AND NATIONAL INTERESTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation imposing a temporary import duty to address fundamental international payments problems and ...
MarketWatch

College sports has a new money problem — and St. John’s may be the latest example: ‘It’s the Wild West’

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...
Portland Press Herald

Using AI to solve your tech problems | Column

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psypost.org

Frequent pornography use does not always indicate a problem, new study suggests

New research published in the International Journal of Sexual Health suggests that the reasons why individuals watch pornography are more predictive of their sexual health than how often they watch it ...
Morningstar

College sports has a new money problem - and St. John's may be the latest example: 'It's the Wild West'

St. John's University fired its basketball program's general manager, Matt Abdelmassih, this week. He was reportedly managing a $10 million roster. St. John's University spent $10 million on its ...
Wired

X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate images with Grok. However, despite the ...
NOLA.com

How the LSU women are using Angel Reese’s example to solve their rebounding problems

On Tuesday afternoon, Bob Starkey was in the LSU women’s basketball team’s locker room when he decided to take out his phone and snap a photo he’d later post to Instagram. Starkey wanted people to see ...
PBS

AP report: Rise of deepfake cyberbullying poses a growing problem for schools

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the ...