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The risky lending business has been booming, but now its problems are becoming increasingly visible on Wall Street and beyond.

Across the country, demand for electricity is on the rise — and so is the price of electric power.

Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran on Monday.

The three bills would start building a framework for regulating the environmental impacts of "hyperscale" data centers.

Consumer confidence declined through the first half of 2025, according to a new U-M survey. Also, a group in the Upper Peninsula is organizing to preserve the memory of labor icon “Big Annie." Plus, we checked in with a fourth-generation Michigan farmer as he navigates uncertainty in the agricultural sector.

A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.

The project, funded by a grant from the Graham Sustainability Institute, hopes to make the opera house's operations more sustainable.

Virtual power plants let utilities take surplus power from distributed sources of energy, like rooftop solar panels. They can then redistribute it throughout the grid, especially during times when demand is highest.

China has signaled continuity rather than change for its economy, setting a slightly lower target for growth this year in the midst of a property slump and other headwinds at home and growing uncertainty abroad.

Planet Money went to the annual meeting of the American Economics Association, and we saw some fascinating papers presented there.