South African copper thieves are screwing up the future of electric vehicles

South Africa is by far the world’s largest producer of platinum, a precious metal that is among the rarest on Earth, and extremely valuable to the electronics industry. The country holds over 80% of t...

Xi’s Shanghai lockdown and Putin’s Ukraine invasion are screwing up inflation’s return to normal

Inflation just keeps going up. The U.S. inflation rate rose 8.5% in March, with the prices of food, gas, and housing going up the most. Before last summer, those kinds of numbers hadn’t been seen in t...