Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Week 16: April 15, 2025 -- April 21, 2025

Locator: 48483TOPSTORIES.

President Trump has been in office for only 84 days (or thereabouts)

Latest GDP 1Q25 estimate: - 2.4. GDPNow.

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Top Stories

Geoff Simon's quick connects.

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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"?
Top international non-energy story:
  • 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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