China’s electricity per capita is up 569% since 2000. The last 25 years. USA energy is down 7% from 2000. China has 17% of global population and over one third of global electricity. 56% of the total world electricity growth. China has 90%+ dominance across the solar supply chain. How do people not see this? …
David Sacks, AI and Crypto Czar, said there will be no federal bailout for AI. The U.S. has at least 5 major frontier model companies. If one fails, others will take its place. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said OpenAI wants the U.S. government to provide a backstop or guarantee for AI financing. Sam Altman believes …
New light-vehicle sales in September 2025 reached a SAAR of 16.4 million units, up 3.5% year over year. EV tax credits expired on September 30. Battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales hit an all-time high in market share and accounted for 11.8% of all new vehicles sold. US light vehicles sales were about 1.25 million in …
Drug seizure data suggests that 2025 has about half the level of trafficking in 2024. Drug over deaths are declining but there is only data up to March 2025. Drug trafficking levels are at the lowest levels in three years. If this correlates to lower trafficking deaths then the next four months should be at …
The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) projecst that increases in tariffs implemented during the period from January 6, 2025, to August 19 will decrease primary deficits (which exclude net outlays for interest) by $3.3 trillion if the higher tariffs persist for the 2025‒2035 period. This will also reduce federal outlays for interest by an additional $0.7 …
On August 22, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada will remove many of its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA, also known as USMCA), effective September 1. This affects over 85% of bilateral trade, exempting it from tariffs, and is intended to de-escalate tensions and intensify negotiations for …
General Atomics smaller unmanned jet, YFQ-42A, could start helping the F-35 and F-22 later in 2025. The YFQ-42A and the Anduril YFQ-44A are designed to augment fighters like the F-22 and F-35 using manned-unmanned teaming, performing air-to-air roles and complementing crewed platforms. There are full sized mockups or prototypes at air shows for both systems. …
China is starting production of a new stealth fighter the J-35. It is less stealthy than the F-35 but is more stealthy than other Generation 4 or 4.5 fighters. The J-35 is a close copy of the F-35 in design (e.g., blended wings, DSI inlets) but is larger, faster (Mach 2.0 vs. 1.6), and twin-engine …
There have been assessments of the physical damage to Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment facility. The general assessment is that the enriched uranium was moved. It was likely moved near Isfahan, which was also hit. However, we do not know where the enriched uranium is. It is likely the centrifuges could not be moved and were …
It looks like a fragile peace might happen. It is still only hours old. There is also checkpoints and drone and other chaos inside Iran. This could be part of the regime not willing to follow the peace and it could also be mixed in with an uprising by others. There still needs to be …
The tariff barriers make it uneconomic to import batteries from China. China has been the main supplier of Tesla Megapack, stationary energy storage batteries. Tesla has enough US and non-China battery supply for cars. Tesla needs to get more batteries for megapacks in the USA. Tesla will be able to use China batteries for the …