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Middle East oil exporters are racing to build pipelines to bypass the Strait of Hormouths
“where shipping is stalled due to the U.S. Iran War, NPR's Jainaroff reports.”
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Baszant says the Strait of Hormuz will become irrelevant. In the next two years, as new pipelines are built, but that's not how energy analysts see it. And is way too strong and overstated. That's Robert McNally, a former energy advisor in President George W. Bush's administration.
He and others say it will take several years for the biggest project since Saudi Arabia and Iraq to be finished, and that pipelines will still be in firing range of Iran. And they say pipelines won't solve the problem of transporting liquid natural gas, or shipping commodities such as fertilizer, where disruptions have already led to higher global food prices.
Jainaroff and Pair News, Aman.
The U.S. cattle industry is reacting to the Trump administration plan to bring in 300,000 metric tons of imported beef with reduced tariffs for 90 days. It's aimed at temporary lowering beef prices for consumers. Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton reports the plan, which was announced late last week, has been mostly met with skepticism from the nation's beef producers.
Julie Louie is a seventh generation cattle rancher in Southwest Texas. This is a very backhanded way of trying to assist the American consumer while putting down the very entities that are trying to see to America. Louie says foreign beef is not produced with the same standards as in the U.S. When you increase our imports for ground beef, yeah, you might make it affordable for
the everyday American, but you're costing them the quality. Both the National Cattleman's beef association and the Texas and Southwestern cattle racers association criticized the plan, along with many Republican leaders. I'm Jerry Clayton and San Antonio. With bond markets and turmoil, investors are waiting for a speech this week by the
Fed share Kevin Worsh and P.R.'s Rothfiel Nam reports he speaks this week in Wyoming. It's a highly anticipated speech. Investors are hoping, Worsh and Friday, we'll address the fears about inflation that are hitting the bond markets. When investors fear inflation, because they can have real negative effects in the economy,
Worsh has previously said, fighting inflation will be a top priority. But investors reacted poorly when the Fed held interest rates at its last policy meeting in July, even a inflation remains high, racing doubts among some investors about how the Fed plans to tackle inflation.
“Making this all the more interesting, the U.S. will report a key inflation gauge, called”
the Personal Consumption Expenditures Prize Index on Wednesday. Two days before Worsh is said to take the stage. Reffile Nam in PR news. It's NPR. Florida's Kyle Kirkwood took the checkered flag in Washington, DC today at the Freedom 250 Grand
Pre-Race on the 1.7-mile road course through the streets of Washington, DC. This race speeds hit 200 miles an hour. The Trump administration is released to new policy for what it calls the golden age of space transportation. It calls for major increases in U.S. space launches and PR's cutting-a-reddital reports. The changes to a document called the National Space Transportation Policy.
Previous administrations have put forth similar policies. This one calls for increased collaboration with private sector partners, as well as better integration of launches into the nation's airspace system. Playing at a goal of more than 1,000 launches and re-entries per year by 2030. It also calls for expanding the number of locations where spacecraft can launch and land.
The policy does not specify new funding to achieve these goals.
The White House has a meanwhile called first significant cuts to NASA's budget, including
it into 2027 budget proposal. Katie Riddle, NPR News. Actress Shelley Fabrey, who had a long career in Hollywood with starring roles, starring roles in classic sitcoms. The Donna Reed-Show and later coach has died in Los Angeles at age 82. Her family announced her death in a statement to the AP and other news outlets.
From 1958 to 1966, she was on the Donna Reed-Show later she was on coach playing the news anchor and romantic interest of Craig T. Nelson. Fabrey was also married to actor Mike Farrell, the mash actor for more than 40 years. Shelley Fabrey was 82. This is NPR.
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