Monthly Archives: June, 2025

LNG Prices Surge as Asia Weighs Middle East Supply Risks

Asia’s top LNG importers are reassessing Middle East supply routes after U.S. strikes on Iran raised security concerns in the Strait of Hormuz, according...

A New Data Highway for Supercomputers and AI Models

Rachel Berkowitz of IEEE Spectrum reports that Cornelis Networks has introduced the CN500 networking fabric, a new architecture designed to optimize AI and supercomputing...

How Was the Trip?

In my conversations with you, I love to hear about how you’re livin’. In a recent email exchange, you wrote, “I hope your summer...

Trade Imbalance Widens as U.S. Goods Imports Soar

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that in Q1 2025, the U.S. current-account deficit rose by $138.2 billion (44.3%) to $450.2 billion, or 6.0%...

Oil Shock? Not So Much

Iran's parliament has voted unanimously to close the Strait of Hormuz, a choke point in the Persian Gulf through which more than a quarter...

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There’s Nothing Wrong with Making Money Slowly (Part 13)

“If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me,” is one...

Communism Ruined Venezuela’s Productivity

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reports that...

US Wine Industry Faces Multi-Year Demand Correction

The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) State of the U.S....

Is Oil No Longer the Middle East’s Most Vital Resource?

Javier Blas of Bloomberg reports that in the context...

There’s Nothing Wrong with Making Money Slowly (Part 12)

When lost in the woods, rather than shelter in...

US LNG SPAs Hit 5.2 Bcf/d, Highest Since 2022

In 2025, US developers signed SPAs for 40 million...

Iraq Cuts Output at Rumaila as Storage Fills

Iraq has begun cutting oil output at the giant...

Will Washington Kill the Golden Goose?

You know that Your Survival Guy favors states with...

After Years Offline, Japan Restarts Major Nuclear Reactor

Japan has restarted Unit 6 at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear...

Expansion Makes Corpus Christi 2nd-Largest US LNG Exporter

The US Department of Energy has approved a 12%...