Economy

Key Insights (AI-assisted): Live NB-IoT NTN trials on an operational LEO constellation signal that satellite is moving from proprietary stacks to standards-driven extensions of cellular coverage. For IoT vendors, this lowers integration risk and encourages…

Does the administration think its supporters don’t understand economics?  I would hope not, but some of their policies and proposals make one wonder. On Tuesday, President Trump revived the idea of a $2,000 tariff “dividend”…

President Trump has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado. Unlike Machado, however, he does not accept the central lessons that can be gleaned from five decades…

Key Insights (AI-assisted): By aligning large-scale RFID manufacturing with battery-free BLE sensing, this partnership accelerates convergence between traditional RFID and emerging ambient IoT. It signals that ultra-low-cost, energy-harvested BLE will move from pilots to mass…

I sound like a nutcase; I know. I could see it in my octogenarian grandpa’s eyes, as he thought what I said was ludicrous. Surely money in a bank account in my name is my…

In the opening week of 2026, several scholars at the Heritage Foundation published a special report titled “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years.” This 168-page document covers myriad…

If all goes as supporters intend, a measure to raise the minimum wage in the nation’s capital to $25 per hour by 2029 will appear on city ballots next November. It’s not an isolated occurrence.…

Many debates on economic topics hinge on a set of familiar words: production, prices, costs, value. These terms appear constantly in political speeches, news articles, and policy discussions. Yet they are rarely used with much…

Key Insights (AI-assisted): The projected surge in smart metering positions Latin America and the Caribbean as a major new demand center for grid-focused IoT. Rapid rollouts will force utilities to mature data analytics, interoperability, and…

Ten Points Commercial nuclear fission dates from the 1950s, a time when electricity was generated by fossil fuels (80 percent) and hydro (20 percent). Today, nuclear supplies 19 percent of US generation and 10 percent…