Energy: New startup building grid-scale batteries
Grid-scale batteries don't need to use Lithium batteries - more cost effective chemistries are available for these applications.
Climate: Eliminate most single-family housing
We must discourage, even ban, single family housing, and redevelop existing single family homes into dense housing.
Demographics: Average fertility rate in the OECD countries is 1.58
The average fertility rate of the OECD countries is now less than 1.6 where at least 2.1 is needed to maintain the existing population numbers.
Finance: Mortgage rates over time
Mortgage Rates Chart | Historical and Current Rate Trends (themortgagereports.com) A LOT of people forget about the late 1970s to up to 2000. While an 8% mortgage rate today seems…
Climate: Make cities “denser”
"Experts" say we must make cities up to 100x denser than today, discourage or ban single family housing, and eliminate private transport.
Energy: California bans gas generators
Beginning in 2028, California will ban the sale of gas fueled electric generators, and ban sale of gas appliances starting in 2030.
Finance: Assumable mortgages are back
Finally! A story writer adds accurate context: Assumable mortgages were popular in the 1980s“For the last 40 years, rates have been falling, so nobody cared about assumability,” said Tod Tozer,…
Climate: Only the wealthy should own cars
Singapore does this – you need to obtain a Certificate of Entitlement (good for ten years), which is a license to buy a small car – and the US$76,000 license…
Crime: Astounding allegations of fraud surrounding FTX crypto exchange
The FTX crypto exchange is alleged to have involved billions of dollars in fraudulent spending of customer's investment money on self dealing by executives.
Immigration: 18% of US workers are foreign born
The % of the U.S. population that is foreign born is approaching 1 in 5 adults, but within some work fields, it is far higher.