Monthly Archives: June, 2018

Conagra to Buy Pinnacle Foods: Is this the Beginning of a Mega-Consolidation?

News broke yesterday that Conagra Brands will buy Pinnacle Foods, tying together two midsize American food brands. The big companies selling food in America...

Amazon Outsources Last-Mile Delivery

Amazon is encouraging individuals to launch delivery businesses that will lease van fleets from Amazon to give the company additional options for last-mile delivery. Last-mile...

State Tax Update: Are Yours Going Up?

On this site, I regularly highlight the good and bad of states' tax structure (read here, here, here, here, and here for starters). I...

Airport Access is Key to the E-Commerce Revolution

Demand for fast shipping and nimble logistics have made property near airports a valuable commodity. Tim Boreham, in the Sydney Morning Herald, explains how...

RAGE Gauge June: The Trump Economy

We can thank President Trump for unleashing the animal spirits that have been key to this economic resurgence: Business Owners of America Unite! And...

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Coal Plant Retirements Accelerate, But Delays Highlight Uncertainty

US coal-fired power capacity is expected to decline from...

Retired Nuclear Plants Brought Back Online for AI Demand

Avi Salzman of Barron's reports that artificial intelligence and...

Can Milei’s Reforms Unleash Argentina’s Shale Oil?

Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale basin, once hindered by unfavorable...

Take Care of Your Money, and Yourself

We’re just over halfway through the year, and tariffs...

Tomahawk Ultra: Broadcom’s New Chip Speeds Up AI Data Processing

Broadcom has unveiled the Tomahawk Ultra, a high-speed networking...

Your Survival Guy on the Roof Deck at the Vanderbilt

Your Survival Guy was on the roof deck at...

The Mysterious ALS Cluster in the French Alps: Is It Linked to Toxic Mushrooms?

Terence Monmaney of Popular Science reports that in Montchavin,...

Senate Passes First U.S. Stablecoin Regulation Bill

The U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act, a landmark...

Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report from Feb. 1987

You may recall a couple of months ago, Your...

DOE Unveils Plan to Quadruple U.S. Nuclear Power by 2050

The Department of Energy's report, Evaluating the Reliability and...