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NatGas, Nuclear, Coal Keep Nation's Largest Grid From Buckling Under Heat Dome Summary: NatGas, Nuclear, Coal Power Generation Keep PJM Alive  First Day of Heat Dome Across Mid-Atlantic; Last Through Weekend  "Set Your AC To 78F": NYC Socialist Pleads With Residents As Fragile Grid Faces Blackout Risk GridStatus' website shows the PJM Interconnection under severe peak-demand stress as heat-driven cooling loads surge across the Mid-Atlantic and eastern U.S. PJM load is near 158 GW, net load is around 142 GW, and real-time power prices are sharply rising to about $929/MWh. The fuel-mix chart shows the...

That Don't Repress Me Much By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank US equity indices gained yesterday as oil prices pulled back from recent highs and bond yields followed suit. The S&P 500 closed 0.46% higher while the Dow Jones was up 0.56% and the NASDAQ Composite Index lifted 0.45%. The Bank of Canada kept rates at a low, low 2.25% yesterday for a seventh-consecutive meeting. Governor Tiff Macklem struck a more hawkish tone, but RaboResearch’s Christian Lawrence and Molly Schwartz write that they wouldn’t be surprised to see the...

Hunter Biden Challenges Trump Brothers To Cage Match As everyone knows by now, the first rule of fight club is... you don't talk about fight club... But it appears Hunter Biden could not help himself as the son of former President Joe Biden, on April 9 publicly challenged Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump - the eldest sons of President Donald Trump - to a cage match.         View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Channel Five (@channel5) The challenge emerged in a video posted to the Instagram page of conservative social media...