WALL STREET JOURNAL………. Mining is having a moment. Pundits and politicians have rediscovered the reality that extracting minerals from the earth is both critical for a modern economy and an inherently dirty business. Journalists writing about the industry often invoke both its strategic importance and William Blake’s “dark satanic mills.”
RealClearWorld ………. The climate change debate continues to rage. Though the science remains “unsettled,” what does seem settled is that President Trump will withdraw, again, from the now infamous Paris Climate Accords. Importantly, those accords are centered on pledges made to modify national energy policies.
CITY JOURNAL ………. It has doubtless occurred to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leaders of President-elect Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, that the quickest route to finding a big chunk of the DOGE’s promised $2 trillion in savings is the Inflation Reduction Act.
CITY JOURNAL ………. If it weren’t for the election season swamping news coverage, odds are more people would be talking about the revelation that, to quote a Bloomberg headline, “The World Bank Somehow Lost Track of at Least $24 Billion.” In fact, that may understate the reality: the World Bank’s “accounting gap” could be as…
DAKOTA DIGITAL REVIEW ……… The year 2024 will go down as the pivot when the growth in U.S. electricity demand reverted to normal. After a two-decade interregnum of no growth, many forecasters, including those in the electric utility industries, thought that was the new normal. Planning for a static future is quite different from meeting…
CITY JOURNAL ………. The quickly settled International Longshoremen’s Association strike takes us one more step toward the Great Inversion: a future in which people in the skilled and semi-skilled trades boast higher average wages than most college graduates. If the justification for most college degrees—only 10 percent of them in STEM fields—reduces to their boosting…
