LunarWeaveSaudi Arabia Still Generates Two-Fifths Of Its Electricity From Oil
In 2023 Saudi Arabia still generated 39 percent of its electricity from oil. The UAE already runs nuclear plants and has no oil residual on the grid.
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The US Medicine Bill Grew. The Pill Factories Barely Did.
US pharmaceutical-products spending reached $669 billion in 2024, while finished-medicine factory payrolls remain near their early-2000s level.
The New Canada Tariffs Are A Grab-Bag. The US Jobs Are In Cars.
A reported $20 billion US tariff list is 0.86 percent of Canada’s GDP but close to its current-account deficit. US payrolls in the fight sit in autos, not dairy.
Britain Is No Richer Per Person Than It Was In 2019
IMF data show UK real GDP per capita was unchanged from 2019 to 2024, unlike the United States, while consumer prices were about a quarter higher.
The Electrician Shortage Is A Tug-Of-War, Not An Empty Bench
U.S. electrician and HVAC contractor payrolls are at records. $40 an hour is no longer a premium; house work is losing people to better-paid nonresidential jobs.
Pakistan Is Resetting Fuel Prices After Already Closing Its Current-Account Gap
IMF current-account figures show Pakistan had already closed its 2022 external gap when it moved to daily fuel-price resets; Egypt had not.
Britain’s Economy Grew. Britons Are Barely Richer.
IMF figures show the UK economy is larger than in 2019, but real GDP per person has barely risen — the constraint Andy Burnham inherits.
Five Percent China Is The New Slope — And The IMF Does Not See A Rebound
IMF annual accounts already treat China’s 5 percent growth as the baseline, with no rebound through 2031, even though China remains about a fifth of world PPP output.
China Is Still Built For 10% Growth. It Is No Longer Delivering It.
IMF annual accounts show China’s 4.3% quarter arriving after a decade-long growth downshift, with investment still near 39% of GDP and a widening current-account surplus.
The Data-Center Boom Is Not A Jobs Boom
New York paused large data centers over power and community strain. National hosting still employs about 464,000 people, below its 2023 peak.
France Still Gets Most Of Its Electricity From Nuclear. The Plants Are Producing Less Of It.
France still generated 64 percent of its electricity from nuclear in 2023, a quarter below the 2005 peak, so river-temperature limits are a first-order grid risk.
Heat Can Take France’s Reactors Offline. Nuclear Is Still Most Of The Power System.
IRENA data through 2023 show nuclear still supplying 64% of French electricity, even though output is a quarter below its mid-2000s peak — so heat-driven reactor cuts hit the core of the gri
