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Pompeo sets out demands on Iran after Trump kills N-deal

Bloomberg Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded Iran halt all uranium enrichment, stop its ballistic-missile programme and give nuclear inspectors access to the entire country, in a speech detailing the US approach now that President Donald Trump has withdrawn from the 2015 nuclear deal. The demands were among 12 “basic requirements” that the US will seek if Iran wants relief ...

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Storage of solar power will be energy’s next big thing

Think the plummeting costs of solar and wind are transforming the energy landscape? Then you should be betting on ways to warehouse that power. To understand why, consider: Unlike almost all their rivals in the energy-generation space, solar panels and wind turbines are mass-produced goods. That means they’re subject to the rules of continual improvement and falling costs that we ...

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Something is rotten at the heart of euro

It’s Groundhog Day again for the euro. It doesn’t really matter whether talks in Italy between the Five Star Movement and the League still include plans to seek a write-off of 250 billion euros ($295 billion) of the nation’s debts and secure an exit mechanism from the euro, as the Huffington Post reported. The fact that these ideas were even ...

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