Category: Agriculture

Trump Announces $8 Billion in Emergency Diesel Relief for U.S. Farmers: Details of the Harvest Fuel Relief Program and Potential Effects on Consumer Prices

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On October 19, 2026, President Donald J. Trump, speaking at a campaign rally in Park City, Kansas, announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would make $8 billion available through a new Harvest Fuel Relief (HFR) Program. The program provides one-time payments to American farmers to help offset elevated diesel costs and other increased […]

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Oracle’s huge data center project declares force majeure. Is this the first warning sign in the data center space?

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On Thursday, September 24, 2026, Bloomberg reported that Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter — the 1,400-acre AI campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico — in an effort to defer payments if the facility misses its planned 2028 in-service date. Shares of Oracle fell about 4–5%. Blue Owl […]

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Secretary Bessent on CNBC: China Talks, Energy Exports, an AI Incident Line, and Why Americans Have Lost Trust in Legacy Media

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used a Monday appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box to lay out the working-level results of weekend talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng — talks he described as a direct extension of the personal relationship between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping. Those discussions, held in New York the day […]

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Russia Hits Odesa Again as Black Sea Shipping Disrupted

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Russian forces launched another large missile-and-drone barrage on Ukraine’s Odesa region overnight September 11–12, 2026, hitting residential buildings, energy infrastructure, and the port complex that once moved the bulk of Ukraine’s grain and oilseed exports. Ukrainian officials reported at least 11 people killed and 96 injured nationwide, including a five-month-old infant in Odesa. Air defenses […]

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Diesel and Refining Capacity Set to be the Inflationary Impact The Fed Can’t Control

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The Federal Reserve can raise rates. The Treasury can issue bills. Neither institution can weld a crude distillation unit back together after a drone strike, add inches to a California products pipeline, or refill Gatun Lake. That is the story of September 2026: crude is still findable; diesel is not. The constraint has moved downstream, […]

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