The U.S. leads today but ranks second (to China) when planned projects are included...

Long-term refinery closures and rising import dependence have left Europe highly exposed, with limited alternatives and growing competition from Asia...

Overall, the global public transportation sector generated an estimated $294 billion in 2025, an increase of roughly 40 percent from the pandemic-induced slump in 2021...

Call volumes surge, the retail bro is winning again, and tech rips - yet many positioning metrics still sit near neutral - suggesting this rally may be far from done.

“One fact has been concealed for too long: an energy transition that ignores system costs will ruin the country it claims to save...”

...zee Germans uber alles.

Iran reversed the brief reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and said the waterway had returned to “strict control” after accusing the US of not meeting its obligations.

There is no full mobilization of women yet, but Kiev is reportedly considering the move as their male population dwindles...

Advocates of state-sponsored medical care claim that rationing by price is immoral, but rationing by bureaucratic decree is a moral imperative...

The new PM of the latest Eurozone member, is a eurosceptic and former fighter pilot who opposes military support for Ukraine's war effort against Moscow.

Both benefit from this since the US wants to avoid India sliding into turmoil amidst the global energy crisis and possibly offsetting its envisaged role as a counterweight of sorts to China...

The only way to reconcile lower prices with tighter fundamentals is weaker demand... and the clearest new signal this week is the emergence of negative refining margins in Europe, suggesting demand destruction is beginning to take hold in the region.

"...the argument that the dollar is in a secular decline as the dominant global currency remains intact."

Indian cities dominate the rankings, with Hyderabad (79 cameras per 1,000 people) leading globally...

“If you think about what gamers are doing on screens, they’re talking, reacting, and managing a lot at once... that’s very similar to what happens in a control tower...”

...above and below ground...

For now, the proposal stands as a creative theoretical bridge between gravity, quantum mechanics, and particle physics...

"He looks like a deer in headlights..."