Crude Oil Prices

U.S. Crude Hits a Record While Key Export Data Goes Dark

U.S. oil production hit another record in September, but the bigger story in this month’s Petroleum Supply Monthly is what isn’t in the report: actual export data. Because the U.S. Census Bureau ...
Marketplace

What import and export data can tell us about the impact of Trump's tariffs

Tuesday is when we’re supposed to learn more about how imports and exports have been faring from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, though the 43-day government shutdown may still delay that data release ...
The White House

MODIFYING THE SCOPE OF THE RECIPROCAL TARIFF WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

Section 1. Background. In Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025 (Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff To Rectify Trade Practices That Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States ...
The New York Times

Saudi Arabia’s New Power Play Is Exporting A.I. to the World

The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power. Credit...Photo ...
csis.org

When a Trade War Becomes a Food Fight

Editor’s Note: This piece was updated on October 23, 2025, to reflect that China further increased the tariff to 45 percent in April 2025. A previous version of this piece stated that China raised ...
NPR

Argentina is an example of what happens when a country manipulates inflation data

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.
Wall Street Journal

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...
CNBC

China's July exports top expectations, rising over 7%; imports record biggest jump in a year

Exports climbed 7.2% in July in U.S. dollar terms from a year earlier, exceeding Reuters-polled economists' estimates of a 5.4% rise. Imports rose 4.1% last month from a year earlier, marking the ...
Comicbook.com

Avengers: Doomsday Still Doesn’t Have a Finished Script (& 1 Star Doesn’t Know if They’re Done Filming)

This shouldn’t be entirely surprising, though. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has even talked about the studio’s process, which they often refer to as “plussing.” The script will be technically ...
The White House

PROMOTING THE EXPORT OF THE AMERICAN

Section 1. Purpose. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a foundational technology that will define the future of economic growth, national security, and global competitiveness for decades to come. The ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...