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The Trump administration is currently questioning the role of science in maintaining the nation’s health, economy and global posture.
Yet the NIH stands as a testimony to the conviction that science is good for society,
that persistent investment in basic research is essential to technological advances that serve the public interest,
and that our nation’s health and economy benefit from developments in biology.

Top U.S. Researchers Warn against ‘Climate of Fear’ Threatening Science
Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation

From David Suzuki
Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution
Higher home heating prices. Pollution. Accelerating climate change. Water shortages. Indigenous rights violations. Who wants that? Apparently the obscenely profitable fossil fuel companies, and unimaginative, short-sighted governments banking on outdated ideas to shore up the economy.
Has industry lived up to its LNG promises? A David Suzuki Foundation report concludes that it hasn’t & isn’t likely to.

Trump says midterm elections will be 'about pricing' despite calling affordability a 'dead' issue (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/4362763/trump-midterm-elections-pricing-despite-calling-affordability-dead-issue/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p22#a251227p22

The European Commission claims €80B of €120B in post-EU Chips Act investments remain on track, despite the stalled GlobalFoundries-STMicro project in France (Virginie Malingre/Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2…

Europe's relentless semiconductor decline
Microchips: The Oil of the 21st Century' (3/5). When the Chips Act, the plan by the 27 European Union member states to reduce their dependence on the US and China for semiconductors, came into force in 2023, the goal initially appeared 'out of reach.

> "accounts showed £440 million turnover despite having no evidence of genuine trading"
that *is* suspicious, yes.
> 46460 - Wholesale of pharmaceutical goods
https://companieshouse.blog.gov.uk/2025…

Collaborating with the Insolvency Service to tackle economic crime – Companies House
Find out how we're working with the Insolvency Service to fight back against people who take advantage of corporate structures to hide their crimes.

"Man, I now have to pay taxes on birth control things? Let me save money by not using any and just have some babies instead, which are not expensive at all." 🙄
#China #birthControl #economics #birthRate #sarcasm

Battery costs keep going down, good news for energy transition and renewable energy.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/batteries-now-cheap-enough-to-make-dispatchable-solar-economically-feasible/

Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.

A study finds that foreign direct investment accounts for 98% of Vietnam's electronics exports, "signaling limited technology spillovers" to the local economy (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Vietnam's tech transfers haven't risen despite export surge: report
Electronics FDI might trap local firms at the assembly level if nothing changes

Crypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in
“Bitcoin and other crypto assets are once again demonstrating that they are among some of the first assets to decline among broader economic uncertainty,” the indispensable crypto observer Molly White wrote in March
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Hiltzik: Despite Trump, it's a bad year for crypto
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto. So why are crypto prices plummeting?

Trump overturned decades of US trade policy in 2025. See the impact of his tariffs, in four charts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-economy-liberation-day-d3458da225c1fdfade97ed494b23e868
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p12#a251226p12