LunarWeaveThe Information Boom Is In Output, Not In California Payrolls
US information-sector output was still rising several times faster than the whole economy in mid-2026, while California information payrolls were already 19 percent below their 2022 peak.
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Microsoft’s 60,000-Person Offer Is Almost The Size Of Seattle’s Software Payroll
Microsoft’s 60,000-person voluntary-exit pool is 92 percent as large as Seattle-area software-publishing employment, a payroll already 16.6 percent below its 2022 peak even as Washington inf
Georgia Already Builds Cars. Audi Is Joining A Small, Rebuilt Industry.
Georgia’s motor-vehicle industry collapsed in 2009 and came back. Audi’s $4 billion plant is large for that rebuilt, still-small auto state.
The Paycheck Is A Shrinking Share Of America's Official Income
Work is a smaller slice of U.S. personal income than before the pandemic. Transfers and asset income grew faster than wages.
New York Is Where The Diesel Is Docking. It Is Not Where Households Spend The Most On Fuel.
A diesel cargo bound for New York does not mean New York households spend the most on fuel. In 2025 they ranked 50th of 51 on energy goods as a share of consumption.
The First Permanent Nuclear Dump Is In A Small Nuclear Country
Finland licensed the first permanent high-level nuclear-waste repository. IRENA electricity data show it is a high-share, small-volume nuclear country: 42% of its power, 1.3% of recorded nuc
Renewables Caught Fossil Fuels On The Capacity Chart. Fossil Plants Still Set The Generation Record.
IRENA world data show renewable capacity overtaking fossil-fuel capacity in 2025 while fossil electricity generation was still at a record.
$110 Oil Is A Power-Bill Shock In Only A Few Grids
IRENA accounts show oil-fired electricity falling to 2.4 percent of world generation by 2023, with the remaining kilowatt-hours concentrated in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and Iran.
America’s Auto Plants Are Producing More. Michigan’s Factories Are Not Hiring.
US motor-vehicle manufacturing output is 36 percent above 2019. Auto-state factory jobs are mixed: Michigan is down, Texas and the South are not.
America’s Hosting-And-Search Industry Is Already 2 Percent Of GDP. That Is Not A Map Of Data Center Alley.
BEA accounts show data processing, hosting and internet search already at 1.9 percent of U.S. GDP and about a ninth of 2025 real growth, with value added concentrated in California and Washi
Cuba Still Has An Oil-Fired Grid. It Has Stopped Getting Electricity Out Of It.
Cuba's October blackout hit an oil-fired grid that had already lost nearly a third of its electricity since 2018 while keeping most plants on the books.
Half The World's Solar Capacity Now Sits In China
China generated 40 percent of the world's solar electricity in 2024 and hosted half of installed solar capacity by the end of 2025, a share that has been rising since 2015.
