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The oil futures curve is a balance sheet
Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored this article that notes the oil futures curve provides insight into inventory tightness, storage incentives, physical stress and the direction of inventory movements.
July 20, 2026
Big Tech is now targeting Native American land for massive data centers
Article notes the Payne Institute for Public Policy has concluded that tribal lands are becoming homes to new data centers in part because there are less regulatory hurdles to be scaled on reservations.
July 20, 2026
Feynman sprinkler problem solved: Momentum flux, not fluid swirl, spins both ways
Brennan Sprinkle, assistant professor of applied mathematics and statistics, said his work along side a colleague from NYU, provides a firmer understanding of how components respond to fluid flows.
July 18, 2026