The world's largest emitter has been flat or falling since March 2024, and 2025 closed 0.3% down, the first decline driven by clean energy rather than economic weakness. If it holds, the world's most important emissions curve turned five years early.
Sep 20, 2026 · 7 min read
The island imports its crude, its gas, and at times its sand and fresh water. In 2025 it sold a record 56.77 million tonnes of marine fuel, more than the next five ports combined, from a position built on a strait, two refinery complexes, and a meter no other port required first.
Aug 15, 2026 · 9 min read
TSMC held about 70% of the world's foundry market in 2025, and at the leading edge the share is closer to all of it. The 2-nanometre generation is sold out through 2028, the $165 billion Arizona hedge is real but partial, and the concentration is not an accident. It is the business model.
Aug 15, 2026 · 8 min read
Two smelters in 2014, fifty-nine by 2025. Processed-nickel exports up from under $1 billion a year to about $14 billion. Sixty percent of world production. The most cited industrial policy of the decade also crashed the price it depends on, and now the same state is cutting quotas to fix that.
Aug 15, 2026 · 8 min read