Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Why Aren’t Oil Prices Higher?
June 9th, 2026It’s all fun and games as long as the U.S. and China keep releasing oil from their reserves… Via: Peak Prosperity:
Something Is Briefly But Regularly Jamming GPS Over Europe
June 5th, 2026Via: Veritasium: Paper: Chasing Lightning: Detecting, Characterizing, and Identifying a Powerful Space-Based GNSS Interference Source
The Cost Of The Grain That Feeds Half The World Just Posted Biggest Monthly Surge Since 2008
June 2nd, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: Asian rice prices logged their biggest monthly gain in nearly two decades in May, as a Gulf energy shock collides with an expected El Niño event later this year. The spike adds to the mounting risks of a broader food price shock that could emerge as soon as six months from now. Any […]
Oil Surges Over 7% as Iran Halts U.S. Talks and Threatens Total Hormuz Closure
June 1st, 2026Via: Oil Price: Oil prices exploded higher Monday, with U.S. crude leaping more than 7% after Iran’s state-affiliated media reported that Tehran is cutting off diplomatic channels with Washington and moving to fully block the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The sudden breakdown in diplomacy shattered fragile market optimism, reversing earlier trading dynamics and sending energy […]
California Passed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act”
May 29th, 2026Via: Nick Shirley:
DuckDuckGo’s AI-Free Search Gains 28% More Visits Following Google’s Insistence That People Love AI Mode
May 27th, 2026Via: PC Gamer: These days, a typical Google Search feels like an obstacle course. Type out ‘upcoming PC games 2026’ and your gaze has to swerve around a chunky AI overview which recycles the work of human writers in a bid to kneecap efforts to click away from Google. It’s a bleak state of affairs […]
We’re Being Held Hostage in a Technology Bubble
May 26th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
Trump Admin Takes Equity Stake in IBM and Other Quantum Computing Companies
May 21st, 2026Via: Gizmodo: After taking equity stakes in chipmakers and rare-earth element miners, the Trump administration has a new industry on its radar: quantum computing. On Thursday, the Department of Commerce announced that it was investing more than $2 billion in nine quantum computing companies. In turn, it’ll receive “a minority, non-controlling equity stake” in each. […]
“Utah Datacenter Could Dump 23 Atomic Bombs Worth of Energy Per Day” [???]
May 20th, 2026Via: The Register: A proposed mega-scale datacenter in the US state of Utah has caused controversy after a physics professor estimated that the facility and its associated power generation could dump 23 atomic bombs’ worth of energy per day. But the real question is whether it will actually ever get built. The datacenter is part […]
Gas Prices Up 56% In USA
May 18th, 2026Via: CleanTechnica: US gas prices have gone up, and up, and up since the country bombed Iran in late February. In March, I reported that the average price of gas in the country had gone up from $2.89/gallon to $3.48/gallon. Now, the average price of gas in the US is $4.517/gallon. That’s a 56% increase […]
