58% Against, Both Parties Scrambling: Data-Center Revolt Hits The Midterms

Nature Is Healing: Most S&P100 Companies Dump DEI Criteria From Board Selection To be clear, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives drew heavily on radical Marxist theory and systematically displaced merit-based standards with unproductive, identity-driven politics. What corporate America marketed as a governance priority proved to be a short-lived ideological fad. Most S&P 100 companies are now dumping explicit diversity criteria from their board-selection policies amid growing recognition that mandates conceived in far-left academic institutions prioritized social engineering over productivity, competitiveness, and preserving America's economic dominance. Bloomberg News cited a new...

Housing Starts & Permits Plunge In August As Homebuilder Confidence Nears COVID Lows On the back of another tumble in homebuilder confidence (though still a long way from homebuyer confidence)... ...building permits were expected to decline in August (while starts were expected to rebound from July's big plunge). However, both Starts and Permits dropped MoM, dramatically worse than expected (Starts -2.6% MoM vs +6.7% MoM exp, Permits -2.7% MoM vs -1.5% MoM exp) On a SAAR basis, Starts at back near post-COVID lows while Permits are holding in a four year range... The details...

India Targets Five Small Modular Reactors By 2033 India expects to build domestically five small modular reactors (SMRs) by 2033, India’s Atomic Energy Minister, Jitendra Singh, said. The five SMRs would be part of India’s push to accelerate nuclear power capacity installations over the next two decades, the minister told lawmakers in a written reply to questions as carried by local media. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India’s premier nuclear research facility under the Department of Atomic Energy, is currently developing a 220-MW Bharat Small Modular Reactor, a 55-MW reactor, and a...