Energy Secretary Announces $2 Billion For Improving Electric Grid With Smart Technology

The essay added later to the collection: a critique of proposals to nationalize banking and credit, weighing bureaucratic against profit management and warning of credit overexpansion and immobilization.

The Petrogas-Dollar: Symptom Or Strategy? Authored 'No1' via Gold and Geopolitics substack, Three people sent me Richard Medhurst’s petrogas-dollar piece this week. I read it. Twice even. There’s a lot in there that I feel is correct. The chronology of the Levantine Basin deals. Cheney’s 2001 National Energy Policy. The roughly $35 billion of Chevron contracts signed across Israel, Syria, Greece, and Cyprus in the past six months. None of that is in dispute. The piece is, on the facts, broadly accurate. What I think though is that the reading of those facts is faulty. Some history.  In 1944 Bretton...

Walmart Boss Rules Out Personal Pricing In Stores As It Rolls Out Digital Price Labels Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, Walmart's boss has ruled out personal pricing in a bid to alleviate customers' concerns about new pricing technology at its stores. In a statement posted on the company's website on July 25, Walmart CEO John Furner claimed that the retail giant isn't using personal information to set prices as it rolls out digital shelf labels. Digital pricing, driven by electronic shelf labels and artificial intelligence (AI), is increasingly enabling retailers...