MARCH 31, 2023
Renewable diesel, made from cooking oil. - The Cool Down
In 2023 so far, the U.S. has imported about 530,000 barrels of used cooking oil to make renewable diesel — a sustainable fuel made from food waste.
Renewable diesel is a type of biofuel that is chemically identical to traditional diesel fuel, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This...
MARCH 31, 2023
Stormy Daniels, an adult film star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is central to the case Manhattan prosecutors are building against former President Donald Trump. - Markus Schreiber, AP
Stormy Daniels, the woman at the center of the investigation into Donald Trump, was out riding one of her favorite horses when the news broke Thursday that the...
MARCH 29, 2023
More than 1,000 concerned critics of artificial intelligence, ranging from industry executives and academics to tech specialists, have signed an open letter calling for at least a six-month pause on large, open experiments with the technology.
Companies researching AI are “locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one —...
MARCH 29, 2023
An enormous swathe of the Gulf of Mexico, spanning an area the size of Italy, will be auctioned off for oil and gas drilling on Wednesday morning, in the latest blow to Joe Biden’s increasingly frayed reputation on dealing with the climate crisis.
Biden’s department of interior is offering up a vast area of the central and western...
MARCH 29, 2023
Kolkata: Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday asked if Rahul Gandhi can be disqualified for his comments about a community, then why similar action cannot be taken against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for hurting the sentiments of women by his taunts against Mamata Banerjee.
The TMC national general secretary was speaking a rally at Shahid Minar Grounds...
MARCH 29, 2023
CEA V Anantha Nageswaran attributed the slowdown in India's economic growth just before COVID-19 pandemic to the classic financial cycle distress that India went through. -
The Indian economy is likely to grow at the rate of 6.5 per cent in the coming decade on the back of the turnaround in financial and investment cycle, Chief Economic Advisor...
MARCH 29, 2023
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. AP/Richard Drew
The bond market is flashing a recession signal that suggests the Fed will quickly cut rates.
That's due to the large jump in short-term Treasuries, which the Fed has previously responded to by cutting rates.
"That can only mean a...
MARCH 29, 2023
Union external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said that Russia will turn more eastward since its relationship with the western world has changed after the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
Speaking to CNN-News18’s Zakka Jacob at the Rising India Summit, Jaishankar said Russia will turn towards the east more than it had done previously.
Rising India Summit 2023 Updates: Market...
MARCH 29, 2023
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (March 29, 2023) addressed the 'Summit For Democracy' and described India as the mother of democracy. In his virtual address, PM Modi also said that India has become the fastest-growing major economy despite many global challenges and this proves that democracy can deliver. Speaking during the 'Leader-level Plenary on...
MARCH 28, 2023
In 2005, years before the subprime mortgage crisis kicked off the Great Recession and led millions of Americans to lose their homes, Larry McDonald was a vice president at the infamous, and now-defunct, global financial services firm Lehman Brothers. As a young trader, he and many of his peers warned that something was wrong in the real...
