Sep 14, 2026
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5 min read
Washington is buying into industries it has decided America needs. China named many of the same industries in a national plan ten years earlier.
Sep 7, 2026
4 min read
Alfalfa takes more of the Colorado River than every other crop combined, and it can survive two months of summer without water. That quirk is how the river is getting some of its water back.
Aug 31, 2026
Lake Mead is setting a new all-time low almost every day. A century-old promise of more water than exists has finally come due.
Aug 24, 2026
America is racing to build the robot worker. Almost every part comes from somewhere else, except the one that thinks.
Aug 17, 2026
A data center's own water bill is surprisingly small. The water its electricity consumes is not. The series closes.
Aug 10, 2026
6 min read
Two companies reported record order books. One stock jumped, one fell. The difference is what counts as a backlog.
Aug 3, 2026
Two billion dollars a day.
Jul 26, 2026
Scrap in, steel out, paid on both ends.
Jul 19, 2026
A checklist of Fed decisions, earnings reports, and insider selling will help determine what comes next for space stocks.
Jul 12, 2026
Expiring drug patents are leaving Big Pharma with a $170 billion hole to fill.
Jul 4, 2026
SpaceX's debut drained the other space stocks by half. Three weeks on, the money is coming back, and the biggest survivor is buying its way into SpaceX's shape.
Jun 28, 2026
The ships you can't build in a hurry.
Jun 21, 2026
American electricity demand is surging after years of stagnation.
