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It doesn’t matter what country you are in, regulators always seem to be reworking rules to make their markets better. The problem is that, often, different market objectives (and their solutions) ...

Solar and wind look like they have a cost advantage, but batteries show why the most flexible actors often capture the economic surplus instead. The player that can flex around mismatches in timing, ...

The United States spent the 2010s incrementally upgrading bank-based magnetic-stripe cards with chips. Meanwhile, China leapfrogged the legacy card-based system by rolling out digital wallets and ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee, recently issued a statement and analysis of the draft Republican market structure bill asking for major fixes. The ...