Day: April 2, 2025

After Spiking by 2,600% or Whatever, Newsmax Stock Plunges 80%, Straight into our Imploded Stocks, All in 3 Days

Energy News Beat For humans and AI trading the stock, it’s just a spectacularly fun video game. For observers, it proves this market is dangerously nuts. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The craziness of this situation is hard to convey with a straight face. “Craziness” is probably the understatement of the year. It shows just how nuts […]

A Big Coal Plant Was Just Imploded to Make Way for an AI Data Center – WSJ

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: Interesting article from the WSJ. They bring up some interesting points and confirm my bullish sentiment on natural gas. But what is missing is the bigger question of microgrids and how much natural gas will be diverted to the data centers over the normal grid production. Much like the […]

As Life Happens, “Locked-in” Homeowners Pay Off Below-4% Mortgages: Share Drops to 54%, Lowest since Q4 2020

Energy News Beat Conversely, the share of 6%-plus mortgages outstanding surges to the highest since 2016. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The 30-year mortgage with a fixed rate of 3% for the duration of 30 years was as close to free money in an inflationary world as regular folks can get, and it would make sense to […]

Not Another Free Lunch: Don’t Let Fannie and Freddie Turn Back into GSEs

Energy News Beat The narrative is that an exit from the current conservatorship would turn Fannie and Freddie into “private” companies. It is not the case. To be a GSE means that you have private shareholders and a free government guarantee of your obligations: “The risk is 99% public and the profit is 100% private.” […]