The oil-natural gas conundrum

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  • Natural gas is produced as a byproduct of crude oil drilling, especially in the Permian Basin. It would be difficult to plateau oil drilling while growing natural gas output.Brandon Bell/Getty Images

    Oil production looks like it could be plateauing. Natural gas, not so much.

  • Kai talks with Laura Veldkamp, an economics professor at Columbia Business School, about the new ISM data showing that the service industry is flatlining

  • One con to location tracked semiconductors? That level of surveillance could discourage American firms from investing in them.STR/AFP via Getty Images

    The Trump administration is exploring the option to prevent smuggling to China.

  • YKK's headquarters in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

    “Basically, YKK is a company that is just in the business of keeping things together,” said journalist Joshua Hunt. “It's really rolled with the punches in terms of the various shapes that globalization has taken.”

  • “When consumers get nervous, eating out in restaurants is one of those things that disappears pretty quickly,” said Alex Susskind at Cornell. Kevin Carter/Getty Images

    Same-store sales for KFC and Pizza Hut declined in the last quarter. Sales at Taco Bell, its more budget-friendly brand, grew at a slower pace.

  • "I wish that 20-year-old me knew that that something like this even existed," said Christie. Kimberly Rose Photography

    Kathryn Christie is the owner of She Fixed That LLC, a handyperson and carpentry business based in Morris County, New Jersey.

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