[ad_1] Listen to article (2 minutes) After pushing prices to new heights last year, some companies are starting to pull back. It could be another sign that inflation is starting…
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Chips Are the New Oil and America Is Spending Billions to Safeguard Its Supply
[ad_1] Only in the past two years has the U.S. fully grasped that semiconductors are now as central to modern economies as oil. In the digitizing world, power tools commonly…
China’s Precarious Moment: Covid Everywhere and Few Restrictions
[ad_1] Jan. 12, 2023 10:05 am ET Listen to article (1 minute) CHONGQING, China—A month after scrapping most of its zero-Covid restrictions, China is experiencing all at once what many…
A Sacred Jerusalem Site Becomes a Flashpoint With Israel’s Rightward Shift
[ad_1] Jewish activists gain more support for praying at the Temple Mount, called the Noble Sanctuary by Muslims, who have controlled the site for centuries Rabbi Yehuda Glick, center, with…
Oil and Gas Are Back and Booming
[ad_1] The Haynesville basin in Louisiana and Texas is humming with drillers. Among them is Chesapeake, a fracking pioneer that was in bankruptcy just two years ago. [ad_2] Source link
Public Transit Goes Off the Rails With Fewer Riders, Dwindling Cash, Rising Crime
[ad_1] By Jimmy Vielkind Jan. 8, 2023 1:08 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Several of the nation’s largest urban mass-transit systems are at a crossroads, with ridership still…
Why Xi Jinping Reversed His Zero-Covid Policy in China
[ad_1] Listen to article (2 minutes) BEIJING—By the end of an otherwise triumphant Communist Party Congress for Xi Jinping in October, it was growing harder for China’s leader to argue…
Saudi Crown Prince Tangles With Sovereign Wealth Fund Over How to Invest Oil Riches
[ad_1] As the Covid-19 pandemic sent global markets swooning in early 2020, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, sensing opportunity, pressed the country’s sovereign-wealth fund to go on an…