What I read this week…
Honda, LG Energy plan $4.4B EV battery factory in U.S. (WSJ)
Toyota to put additional billions of dollars into EV batteries (WSJ)
Nvidia stock drops as U.S. limits exports to China. ‘Military end use’ is the key. (Barron’s)
Good luck taking away China’s manufacturing mojo (Bloomberg Opinion)
Tesla quietly built a virtual power plant in Japan (The Verge)
The homeowner’s sunshine problem (The Atlantic)
The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis (Noahpinion)
How student debt has contributed to ‘delayed’ adulthood (The Atlantic)
California fast food wages would be set by government under bill passed by state legislature (WSJ)
Desalination plant construction underway in Nor Cal as drought worsens (CBS)
On Twitter…
In back-to-back multi-billion-dollar battery investments this week from Honda and Panasonic, the U.S. gets fast initial signs that the new Climate Law is working to attract a battery supply chain to the country.
If every unemployed person in the country found a job, we would still have 5 MILLION open jobs. Our policy recommendations: modernize our broken immigration system and help expand affordable childcare options. Learn more: uschamber.com/major-initiati… #AmericaWorks
These are extraordinary stats. While US cities sic police on the problem, homelessness across Japan has dropped to its lowest level since 2003, when numbers were first recorded. Policy, policy.
I apologize for tweeting so much about this particular heatwave, but OMFG, it just gets more terrifying with every GFS run. We are now seeing widespread 115-120 towards the end of next week.
Decided to decline my $20,000 loan forgiveness. Grind never stops. I wish Biden would ADD $20,000 to my debt just so I can grind even HARDER