Good Revenue News Atoms, Anxiety & America’s New Nuclear Gamble
Auto inventories pile up, housing turnover at 30-year low, and 42 million American households lost SNAP food aid. Washington reignites battles over industrial policy, energy, and nuclear weapons testing while retail investors quietly stabilize financial markets.
🎯 DISCOVER:
- Why tariffs and global pricing led to a massive auto oversupply.
- How Redfin data shows housing turnover hitting historic lows.
- The unexpected influence of new retail investors on market stability, per the BlackRock Foundation.
- How SNAP benefits disappeared amid the record-long government shutdown—plus the legal fights and USDA’s pushback against grocers helping recipients.
- What Westinghouse’s 80 billion dollar nuclear deal signals for U.S. industrial policy.
- The unresolved nuclear waste dilemma and the risks tied to renewed nuclear testing.
🔍 TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro — Atoms & Anxiety
00:00:30 SNAP Benefits Cut for 42 Million Households
00:02:00 Auto Glut & Cooling Sales Pressure
00:04:00 Housing Market Freezes at 30-Year Low
00:05:00 Retail Investors Stabilize Markets
00:06:30 New Mercantilism: Westinghouse Nuclear Deal & Industrial Policy
00:08:00 The Nuclear Waste Crisis — Yucca Mountain & Storage Limits
00:10:00 Nuclear Weapons Testing Debate Returns
00:12:00 Historical Costs & Strategic Risks
00:12:25 Closing Takeaways
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📚 SOURCES & DATA:
- SNAP partially restored: https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/11/03/trump-fund-snap-benefits-shutdown-map/87063464007/
- Companies doing the right thing for SNAP: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/instacart-doordash-and-other-companies-offer-discounts-to-snap-recipients
- USDA blocks companies from giving discounts to SNAP recipients: https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3m4o6wa7gk22a
- US auto inventory levels rise: https://www.spglobal.com/automotive-insights/en/blogs/us-auto-inventory-levels
- Auto loans & Fed Oct 2025: https://www.coxautoinc.com/insights-hub/oct-2025-fed-commentary/
- 2025 new car inventory guide: https://caredge.com/guides/new-car-inventory-2025
- Q3 2025 EV sales: https://www.coxautoinc.com/insights-hub/q3-2025-ev-sales-report-commentary/
- Redfin: Record-low housing turnover: https://www.redfin.com/news/home-turnover-report-2025/
- New retail investor findings: https://buildcommonwealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CW_Understanding-Todays-Retail-Investor.pdf
- Westinghouse $80B nuclear deal: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/westinghouse-electric-cameco-corp-brookfield-asset-management-80-bln-nuclear-2025-10-28/
- JP Morgan & Rare Earths investment: https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/banking/investment-banking/mp-materials
- CRS report on spent nuclear fuel: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R48364/R48364.2.pdf
- CRS report on nuclear waste: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL33461
- NRC 2025 regulatory updates: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/prev-additions/additions-2025
- Iodine-131 radiation risks: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/i-131
- New NNSA head Senate testimony: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/williams_apq_responses.pdf
- Nevada Test Site overview: https://www.dnfsb.gov/doe-sites/nevada-national-security-site
- Baneberry nuclear test 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Emery
- Nuclear test that changed everything: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/coldwar/baneberry-test-operation-emery.html
- CSIS analysis on nuclear testing: https://www.csis.org/analysis/can-united-states-immediately-return-nuclear-testing
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