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The Florida field tomato — which the Trump administration wants us to eat more of by imposing a 21 percent tariff on most Mexican tomatoes starting July 14.
The tariff represents a double insult to consumers,
assaulting both our taste buds and our pocketbooks.
Trump has told us to make do with fewer (and more expensive) imported pencils and dolls for the greater good of bringing manufacturing back to America.
Fine. But tomatoes?
The last thing American consumers …

Opinion | How Has a Food This Bad Survived the American Market for So Long?
The last thing American consumers need is a revitalization of Florida’s withering tomato industry.

Demand for LNG in Europe dropped by 18 per cent between 2022 and 2024, and Canadian exports would have a hard time competing in Asian markets, says advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance. “Investing in infrastructure that will be very expensive and likely won’t be profitable will weaken our economy rather than strengthen it,” Renaud Gignac, an economist and senior adviser for the group, said in an interview.

New report casts doubt on potential revival of Quebec LNG project
Reviving a liquefied natural gas export project in Quebec's Saguenay region would be costly and likely unprofitable, a shareholder advocacy group says.

Apple supplier Lens Technology, one of the top smartphone part makers, raised ~$608M in its Hong Kong IPO, as the Chinese company looks to expand overseas (Peggy Ye/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Ap…

Apple supplier Lens Tech opens 4% up on first Hong Kong trading day
Chinese company raises $608mn to fund overseas expansion amid US tariff pressure

From Static to Intelligent: Evolving SaaS Pricing with LLMs
Francisco Javier Cavero, Juan C. Alonso, Antonio Ruiz-Cort\'es
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12104

From Static to Intelligent: Evolving SaaS Pricing with LLMs
The SaaS paradigm has revolutionized software distribution by offering flexible pricing options to meet diverse customer needs. However, the rapid expansion of the SaaS market has introduced significant complexity for DevOps teams, who must manually manage and evolve pricing structures, an approach that is both time-consuming and prone to errors. The absence of automated tools for pricing analysis restricts the ability to efficiently evaluate, optimize, and scale these models. This paper propos…

2026 is going to be a big hit for those of us who buy second-hand IT equipment. The end of Windows 10 support together with the incompatibility of many computers with Windows 11 will flood the market of high-powered computers and laptops. I'm going to feel like a kid in a candy store.

Currents Beneath Stability: A Stochastic Framework for Exchange Rate Instability Using Kramers Moyal Expansion
Yazdan Babazadeh Maghsoodlo, Amin Safaeesirat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01989

Currents Beneath Stability: A Stochastic Framework for Exchange Rate Instability Using Kramers Moyal Expansion
Understanding the stochastic behavior of currency exchange rates is critical for assessing financial stability and anticipating market transitions. In this study, we investigate the empirical dynamics of the USD exchange rate in three economies, including Iran, Turkey, and Sri Lanka, through the lens of the Kramers-Moyal expansion and Fokker-Planck formalism. Using log-return data, we confirm the Markovian nature of the exchange rate fluctuations, enabling us to model the system with a second-o…