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The First 100 Days
January 20, 2025 - April 30, 2025
Thirteenth Week Of President Trump's Presidency
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The Top Stories
TOP STORY: Pope Francis passes away peacefully (stroke), 7:30 a.m. local time, Vatican, Easter Monday, April 21, 2025.
Photo-op of the day: Margaritaville in El Salvador with US Democratic senator and a notorious MS-13 gang-banger. LOL. Sort of reminds me of Obama's beer summit (2009).
Biggest story of the week:
- Nvidia selects Texas for the two largest supercomputers in the world
- Houston
- Dallas
- reminder: AI is an energy story
Top stories of the week:
- tariffs, deportations, semiconductors
- Trump vs the universities
- Trump to freeze $2.2 billion in Federal money for Harvard
- Harvard at risk of losing tax-exempt status on endowment
- polls: Americans overwhelmingly support this development
- average working joe paying upwards of 30% of income in federal, state, local taxes and nuisance fees; meanwhile, the elites pay no taxes on "things" like endowment funds. Americans asking "why"?
- US to decide whether to pursue peace initiatives in Ukraine War
- neither side seems all that interested in ending this war
- Ukraine has agreed to ceasefire; Russia has not but has not attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure
- tariffs, deportations, semiconductors
Top international energy story:
- Russia continues to set new records: foreign exchange reserves at an all-time high?
Top national non-energy stories:
- Pyrrhic victory: Harvard wins "mask" battle but sets the stage for IRS taxing university endowments
- three top-level DOD officials put on administrative leave and escorted out of their office in purge related to "leaks" within the department. My hunch: among other things, providing off-the-record, un-sourced, anonymous background information to Washington, DC, media outlets.
- Trump to fire current acting IRS chief; replace; will be fifth individual to lead IRS since Trump took offie
- Golden Eagle likely to die out -- wind turbines
- White House (President Trump) will take over renovation of Penn Central Station
- Penn Central Station owned by Amtrak, "owned" by US-DOT (Secretary: Sean P. Duffy).
Top national energy story:
- WTI still at historic lows but had a good week, rising from sub-$58 to $64
Focus on fracking: current link here. Generally updated late Sunday night.
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