published Mar 23rd 2017, 7:00 am, by Tyler Cowen (Bloomberg View) — As rents and home prices in the most productive megacities continue to climb, the obvious question is whether this is sustainable. Will New York, San Francisco and London become unstoppable juggernauts, soaking up more talent and becoming more

published Jul 28th 2016, 1:38 pm, by Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — With each monthly data release from the Energy Information Administration (there was one on Tuesday) it gets a little clearer. Natural gas has overtaken coal as the main source of electrical power in the U.S.: Gas’s lead over

published Jun 22nd 2016, 1:14 pm, by Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) —The Obama administration will fight a federal judge’s ruling overturning its effort to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands, a decision that struck another blow to the president’s environmental legacy. “We’ll continue to make our case in the courts,”

published Apr 12th 2016, 1:35 pm, by Paula Dwyer (Bloomberg View) — Fractivists — the environmentalists who oppose hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas — mean to make trouble for Hillary Clinton in the coming New York and Pennsylvania primaries. New York, which votes on April 19, bans the practice

©2015 Bloomberg News NZVO156KLVR4 (Bloomberg) — In 2015, the fracking outfits that dot America’s oil-rich plains threw everything they had at $50-a- barrel crude. To cope with the 50 percent price plunge, they laid off thousands of roughnecks, focused their rigs on the biggest gushers only and used cutting-edge technology

©2015 Bloomberg News NQF3D86VDKHT (For Energy column alerts: SALT NRGI ) (Bloomberg) — The fuel that will grill millions of hot dogs across the U.S. on the Fourth of July is giving energy producers heartburn. Propane inventories have soared to the highest seasonal level in more than 30 years, sending

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NIAO4Y6JTSEJ (Bloomberg) — U.S. drillers have taken a record number of oil rigs out of service in the past six weeks as OPEC sustains its production, sending prices below $50 a barrel. The oil rig count has fallen by 209 since Dec. 5, the steepest six-week decline