Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Some posts on rare earth materials

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China’s Rare Earths Aren’t as Rare as You Think: When the country tried to choke off supply of the metals before, the world found ways to ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Life is full of tradeoffs: If we want more solar panels do we have to give up some pine trees? And cause inbreeding and birth defects in bears due to reduced habitat?

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See  The South Is Having Second Thoughts About Trading Pine Trees for Solar Panels: Americans used to focus on the cost and reliability of e...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Lawmakers Traded Stocks Heavily as Trump Rolled Out ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs

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Buying and selling of stocks spur new push to further restrict lawmakers’ market activities By Katy Stech Ferek, Jack Gillum, James Benedict...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Schools Can Pay Their Athletes—and College Sports Will Never Be the Same

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The landmark House settlement seeks some equilibrium on the playing field. But plenty of questions—and some denial—remains By Jason Gay of T...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Are Businesses Absorbing the Tariffs or Passing Them On to Their Customers?

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Jaison R. Abel, Richard Deitz, Sebastian Heise, Ben Hyman, and Nick Montalbano . They are all with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Exc...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Seasonally Adjusted CPI Was Up 0.081% In May

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Here are the changes in the seasonally adjusted CPI each of the last six months: Dec  0.3647%  Jan  0.4669% Feb 0.2160% Mar -0.0500% April 0...