Three Mile Island was a black eye for nuclear construction in this country, and that lingered through many presidencies past Carter’s. (Interestingly, Reagan approved the sale of nuclear power plants to China in 1985. No US plants were initiated during his presidency.) The Fukushima disaster and the Westinghouse bankruptcy created further hurdles. The Infrastructure Act of 2022 targeted $6 billion for nuclear power plant construction.
Watts Bar in Georgia was the most recent commissioned, back in 2016, up till Vogtle-4 in Tennessee, which just went on-line last month.
Ulbricht, in addition to providing an underground market for drug dealers, also paid $730,000 on contracts to kill 5 people he thought threatened his enterprise.
It would be hard to find a felon more unworthy of special consideration. And it hardly jibes with President Trump's call to execute drug dealers.
That said, aside from the inconsistencies in his policy proclamations, the fact is that Libertarians laughed in his face and made his appearance an exercise in futility.
Taylor Swift‘s huge year just claimed a new record: Her “Eras” Tour generated an estimated $1.04 billion in gross ticket sales — the first tour to ever hit the billion-dollar milestone — according to the live-music trade publication Pollstar.
Swift’s tour topped all previous tours in ticket sales for the 12-month period of Nov. 17, 2022, to Nov. 15, 2023. During that time, the Eras Tour sold an estimated 4.35 million tickets from 60 shows. Beyond ticket revenues, Pollstar’s research estimated Eras Tour merchandise sales at approximately $200 million during that run.
I'm completely unaffected: the only tickets I usually buy are or baseball, opera, and movies.
That said, it's apparent that LiveNation has had a stranglehold on concert tickets for years, a circumstance for which anti-trust legislation was originally enacted.
Moreover, in the government filing there is direct evidence of coercion by LiveNation against both artists and promoters.
Three new uranium mines in the US began production at the end of last year. US mining company Energy Fuels opened the mines in Arizona and Utah in response to strong market conditions.
I'm a long-term bull on nuclear energy and on uranium. Cameco is the biggest public company producing the metal and has been my only holding in the sector, but I'll be looking at the smaller-capitalized names since they often have more leverage.