As an aside, it's not long ago that Portugal and Spain were being lauded for being the only countries in Europe to have largely avoided the Ukraine war energy price spike. Which was - itself - a… (View Post)

Ummm: there was another thing you might want to check out Ed - and that is that in highly polarized elections, third parties (or even fourth parties) can get really badly squeezed. (View Post)

The polling is fake. Trump is popular. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demands-investigations-negative-approval-rating-polls-2064949 (View Post)

I am. And I suspect that it will end up being a boon for economies that currently underconsume. Ironically, Trump's policies may end up boosting economic growth in China and the EU, because poli… (View Post)

Ummm: this isn't quite true. Spinning reserve is great at smoothing out a few seconds of power loss, but it can't do much more. Also, it's much more relevant for coal and nuclear. For … (View Post)