Monthly Archives: September, 2024

What the Fed Rate Cut Means to You Part: VI

Now that the Fed has begun its rate cut crusade, you don’t want to wake up sometime down the road and realize you have...

AI’s Thirst for Water – One Bottle of Water Per Email

Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan of The Washington Post report that AI bots generate a lot of heat, and keeping their computer servers running...

Jobless Claims Sink to 4-Month Low.

Jeffry Bartash of MarketWatch reports that the low level of layoffs has kept the economy expanding. He writes: The number of Americans who applied for...

How You Livin’? My Golf Injury and Fishing

OK, YSG is on the shelf. No more golf for me. In August, I pulled some muscles between my ribs that I didn’t know...

Energy Storage Is About to Take Center Stage

Bloomberg reports that additional energy storage enables the rapid growth of new energy. They write: Energy storage is becoming so important in China that it’s...

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Are You One of the 77% Who Reported…

Did you know that over three-quarters of Americans had...

The Next Fed Chairman?

In a discussion with reporters on Air Force One,...

EU Sanctions and Refinery Outages Push Diesel Prices Up

The US Energy Information Administration reports that global diesel...

VA Approves New Rate Class for Large Electricity Users, Including Data Centers

The State Corporation Commission has approved a new electricity...

The Macro Impact of the Data Center Investment Boom

Data center construction and high-tech investments, particularly in the...

DOE Launches $134 Million Push to Build US Rare Earth Supply Chain

The US Department of Energy’s Office of Critical Minerals...

US Import Prices Flat in September as Nonfuel Costs Rise, Fuel Prices Fall

In September, US import prices were unchanged from the...

Does Your Stock Portfolio Look Like Rudolph Taking Flight?

Happy Monday. Want to get away? Hang in there....

US Oil and Gas Operators Get Extra Time on Methane Emission Rules

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Administrator Lee Zeldin,...

The Genesis Mission Unites Supercomputers and AI to Drive Next-Gen Science

President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order launching...