Yearly Archives: 2026

Your Survival Guy’s RAGE Gauge: Hard Decisions

Your Survival Guy is in France, amid the country's most recent bout of discontent. This time, the protesters are students demanding more school funding...

Zelenskyy Resumes Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine would resume strikes on Russian oil refineries, accusing Moscow of continuing attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure despite...

Ship Attacks Drive Shipping Costs to Record Highs

According to Benoit Faucon and Rebecca Feng writing in The Wall Street Journal, two Emirati cargo ships, the GFS Pride and the Cape Dao,...

Producer Inflation Hits Highest Monthly Gain Since 2022

The U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand rose 1.3% in September, marking its largest monthly increase since March 2022, following gains of...

DOE Advances Support for Domestic Clean Fuel Producers

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office (AFFO), released a pre-publication draft of a Federal Register notice outlining...

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What’s Happening in France could Happen Here

You may have read that France is facing a...

Why Diesel Prices Have Surged Across the U.S.

U.S. diesel prices have risen sharply due to high...

Is China’s Economy Addicted to Real Estate?

In The Wall Street Journal, Nathaniel Taplin explains the...

The Payday Indicator

Alert! My Payday Indicator is signaling the worst environment...

Why Isn’t the Oil Price Coming Down?

President Trump and his administration have been touting a...

Junk Bond Yields

What do junk bonds yield today? The table below...

A Simple Recipe for Beating the Market 3 to 1

Over more than eight decades of stock market history,...

The Truth Behind the S&P 500

Let’s get a few things straight about the S&P...

Does Private Equity Race for the Exit Spell Trouble?

Stephen Gandel, writing for Bloomberg, explains that private equity...