Monthly Archives: July, 2025
U.S. Median Weekly Earnings Rise in Q2 2025, Outpacing Inflation
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in the second quarter of 2025, median weekly earnings for the U.S.’s 121.5 million full-time wage...
Extracting Critical Minerals from Desalination Brine
Important technologies like EV batteries, smartphones, and solar panels depend on critical minerals such as lithium and magnesium—most of which the U.S. imports, often...
DOE Cancels $4.9B Loan for Grain Belt Express
The Department of Energy has canceled its conditional $4.9 billion loan guarantee for the Grain Belt Express Phase 1, a planned high-voltage transmission line...
Eighty-One Years After Bretton Woods
From Spencer Jakab of the WSJ: “On this day in 1944, the Bretton Woods Agreement was signed in New Hampshire, pegging major foreign currencies to...
U.S. Becomes Net Crude Oil Exporter to Nigeria for the First Time
For the first time, the United States exported more crude oil to Nigeria than it imported from the country in February and March 2025....