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VC Money Floods Into US Nuclear Startups As AI Power Demand Explodes
VC Money Floods Into US Nuclear Startups As AI Power Demand Explodes
Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com,
Global VC funding for nuclear fission and fusion startups has already topped $4.5 billion across 81 companies in 2026, on pace to beat 2025's $6.2 billion record.
Big Tech figures including Sam Altman and Bill Gates are pouring money into fusion to keep up with AI's ballooning electricity demand.
Critics warn the startup boom is skipping voluntary safety guardrails and pulling attention from proven large-scale reactor technology.
Venture capitalists are taking a major interest in nuclear...
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Tax Freedom Day Underestimates How Long You Work For The Government
Tax Freedom Day Underestimates How Long You Work For The Government
Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute,
Tax Freedom Day, calculated by the Tax Foundation, “represents how long Americans as a whole have to work in order to pay the nation’s tax burden.”
It appears that they stopped publishing this in 2019, but others have picked up where they left off.
The idea is that the income earned by taxpayers over a certain proportion of the year goes to Uncle Sam.
In 2025, that date was April 16th.
But the burden of government...
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Jun 8, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Google's New CAPTCHA Plans Will Create A Two-Tier Internet Only Accessible To Those With 'Approved' Devices
Google's New CAPTCHA Plans Will Create A Two-Tier Internet Only Accessible To Those With 'Approved' Devices
Authored by Dr R P via The Daily Sceptic,
Never mind Fancy Bear, or the NSO Group, the biggest threat to the open internet today is from the Big Tech corporations on which it has come to depend. For what else are we to conclude given that Google appears to be working on a system to lock large parts of the internet behind a new form of CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell...
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Apr 13, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Existing US Home Sales Plunged In March, Despite Falling Mortgage Rates
Existing US Home Sales Plunged In March, Despite Falling Mortgage Rates
Affordability-aiding lower mortgage rates battled a sentiment-sapping surge in geopolitical panic in March, with analysts expecting the latter to outweigh the former with a modest 0.7% MoM decline (after January's plunged - weather? - and February's modest rebound).
The analysts under-estimated the fear from war-mongering as existing home sales plunged 3.6% MoM (down bigly from an upwardly revised 2.7% MoM jump in Feb). That is the second biggest drop in existing home sales since Nov 2022...
Source: Bloomberg
That dragged Existing Home...
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