DAVID BLACKMON: US EV Industry Shifts Back Into Reality Gear
At the start of each year, I write a piece in which I make a set of predictions about what will happen in the energy space during the coming 12 months. One prediction I made in this year’s story focused on the likelihood of a big fallout in America’s EV manufacturing industry. Citing Fisker and Rivian as […]
Legal cannabis industry seeks government help dealing with red tape
(The Center Square) – The marijuana industry is booming. Last year, the $21 billion industry grew by more than 5%, faster than the U.S. economy as a whole. At the same time, states from California to Massachusetts have decided the marijuana industry needs subsidies. A coalition of Democratic senators is now asking the Small Business […]
Telecom industry groups sue to block Biden’s reinstatement of net neutrality rule
See what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com Several groups representing the U.S. telecommunications industry have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Biden administration from reinstating net neutrality rules that were scheduled to take effect on July 22. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its 3-2 Democratic majority voted along party lines in April to reaffirm its […]
Appeals court rejects SEC fee rule in win for private equity, hedge fund industry
A U.S. appeals court has struck down a Securities and Exchange Commission rule aimed at giving investors more transparency into private funds, handing a victory to an industry with nearly $27 trillion in assets. In a 3-0 decision on Wednesday, the New Orleans-based U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of six private […]
Environmental attacks on the US fossil fuel industry are unproductive
In 1835, a prominent French scholar of American democracy wrote, Alexis de Tocqueville“The United States is a dynamic country, and its people tend to have strong opinions that are not always justified,” he said. “The country’s stubborn nature has led to bold innovations and incredible leaps from the “impossible.” Erie Canal From space flight in […]
Union plans to escalate action over job losses at two steelworks in Wales | Steel industry
Trade union leaders are preparing to intensify strike action at two south Wales steelworks as a dispute over the cuts of around 3,000 jobs intensifies, threatening to become a major issue in the general election. Unite said the measures at the Port Talbot and Llanwern plants were planned after the plants’ Indian owner, Tata Steel, […]
VIJAY JAYARAJ: US Ally’s Climate Fetish Could Decimate Key Industry For Natives In That Country
Obsessed with the faux climate crisis, the Canadian government in Ottawa seemingly discounts altogether the social and economic benefits of natural gas to First Nations communities of the country’s western region. Approximately 5% of the world’s gas comes from Canada, mainly from the vast Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin underlying several provinces, including British Columbia, Alberta […]
Inflation in UK shops falls amid price cuts on furniture and TVs | Retail industry
Store price inflation eased to its lowest level since November 2021 as retailers slashed prices on big-ticket items such as furniture and televisions as rising living costs and bad weather forced households to severely curb spending. According to the latest research from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and market research firm NielsenIQ, inflation rose 0.6% […]
China Pumps Tens Of Billions Into Key Industry Amid Tech War With US
China’s Communist Party has launched a $47.5 billion state investment fund to strategically bolster its semiconductor industry in preparation for competition with the United States, Reuters reported on Monday. The investment of 344 billion yuan is the largest among the three funds established, with the first fund established in 2014 and providing 138.7 billion yuan […]
A Dem-Linked Dark Money Network Is Quietly Funding The ‘Misinformation’ Research Industry
Several funds managed by Arabella Advisors, a Democrat-linked consultant firm, are quietly bankrolling research by universities and non-profits into how online “misinformation” and “disinformation” spreads, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the networks’ grants. Arabella Advisors, run by former Bill Clinton official Eric Kessler, manages certain administrative, legal and philanthropic functions of […]