Summer 2025 Check-in: How You Livin’?
In my conversations with you, I know you’re living well because you tell me. When I call you and I ask about what’s going...
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....
Gas-Fueled Comeback: Spain’s Power Grid Leans on Fossil Fuel After April Collapse
Spain's gas use for electricity generation increased by 41% in the first half of 2025, as the country relied heavily on combined-cycle gas turbines...
The $2 Trillion Shift: Why Consumers Are Leaving Traditional Banks
A new study by Cornerstone Advisors reveals that over $2 trillion has shifted from traditional banks and credit unions to fintechs and high-yield savings...
Happy Monday from Your Survival Guy and Fort Adams
Happy Monday from Your Survival Guy. Hope you had a nice weekend. On Friday, it was a beautiful morning in Newport. Finally. And with...
Nuclear Power Drives France’s 2024 Energy Export Boom
The US Energy Information Administration reports that in 2024, France increased its cross-border electricity exports by 48%, from 70 TWh in 2023 to 103...