July Inflation Data Leaves Economists Anxious
July inflation data has economists on edge Markets ended the week largely unfazed by a hotter wholesale inflation print and signs of firming consumer prices, but some economists warn the underlying story is more concerning than investors seem to believe. The Producer Price Index (PPI) for July surged to a three-year high, with services inflation […]
CEO Who Laid Off 80% of Workforce for Slow AI Adoption: “I’d Make the Same Decision Again”
This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again Eric Vaughan, CEO of enterprise-software powerhouse IgniteTech, is unwavering as he reflects on the most radical decision of his decades-long career. In early 2023, convinced that generative AI was […]
China’s Stock Market Struggles to Boost Consumer Spending Despite Reforms – Insights and Data
China’s Stock Market Fails to Drive Consumer Spending Despite Reforms – News and Statistics Aug 17, 2025 China’s stock market, valued at $11 trillion, has failed to incentivize consumer spending due to poor equity returns over the past decade, according to a Bloomberg report. A $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 Index a decade ago […]
Finance Director Becomes Latest Ashland Official to Resign in Ongoing Five-Year Turnover
Finance director is latest Ashland official to resign amid 5-year turnover Finance director is latest Ashland official to resign amid 5-year turnover Published 8:07 am Saturday, August 16, 2025 By DAMIAN MANN / for Ashland.news Ashland Finance Director Mariane Berry is the latest high-level city official to resign. Berry, a 25-year Ashland resident, submitted her […]
After 35 Years of Leading in AI Implementation, I See a Looming Catastrophe
I’ve been a thought leader on operationalizing AI for over 35 years and I’m concerned. There’s a catastrophe in the making In a speech last month, President Donald J. Trump outlined three executive orders he signed to promote American dominance of AI technology. He promised, in fact, that as America is the country that started the […]
Stocks Surge to Record Highs Again Amid Warning Signs: Can the Bull Market Persist?
Stocks power to record highs again despite warning signs. Can the market’s strong run continue? The market wants a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut soon, but it doesn’t want to need one. Wall Street economists are fixated on identifying tariff effects, yet stocks either celebrated or shrugged off three warm and sticky inflation readings this week, […]
Oil and Gas Production Reaches Lowest Level in Two Decades
Oil and gas output hits 20-year low KARACHI: Amid renewed hopes of US investment in Pakistan’s oil sector, spurred by recent tweets from former US President Donald Trump hinting at greater American involvement in local exploration and implying potential crude supply to India, Pakistan has recorded its weakest oil and gas production in more than […]
Q2 2025 Fundamentals of Gold Mining Companies
Image from Newmont. Gold miners just finished reporting their best quarterly results ever. Mainly thanks to amazing record gold prices, its miners achieved epic record revenues, record unit profits, record bottom-line earnings, and record operating cashflows. Last quarter proved gold miners’ eighth in a row of huge mostly-high-double-digit profits growth. Gold stocks remain seriously undervalued […]
AI Experts Return from China in Shock: U.S. Power Grid’s Vulnerability Could Mean the Race is Already Lost
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over “Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given,” Rui Ma wrote on X after returning from a recent tour of China’s AI hubs. For American AI researchers, that’s almost unimaginable. In the U.S., surging AI […]
A Strategic Shift in Battery Recycling Innovation
A Strategic Turnaround in Battery Recycling Innovation The electric vehicle (EV) landscape is rapidly changing, driven by a critical yet often overlooked aspect: battery recycling. Aqua Metals (NASDAQ: AQMS) stands out as a pioneer in sustainable lithium-ion battery recycling, undergoing significant transformation to capitalize on the projected $12.5 billion global battery recycling market by 2030. […]