Scott Irwin's Blog

Last Friday, the EPA released its decision on 2016-2024 SREs (small refinery exemptions) under the RFS. The EPA awarded 63 full SREs and 77 partial (50%) exemptions. The total for … Read More Test

If you’ve read my book Back to the Futures, you know that I have had a lifelong passion for things that go fast. I grew up going to dirt … Read More Test

Many of you have probably noticed that higher education is having a rough go of it right now. There is a new headline almost every day about the Trump Administration’s … Read More Test

A fundamental component of agricultural productivity is genetic gain in crop yields. Improving the genetic potential of crop yields has been central to most of the world escaping the recurring … Read More Test

There has been a lot of leaking lately in DC about renewable volume obligations (RVOs) for the RFS in 2026 and perhaps 2027. These leaks suggest the Trump EPA will … Read More Test

A few weeks ago, my publishing imprint, Ceres Books, released It’s All Speculation by Tom Hieronymus. It is a collection of Tom’s writings across his career that stretched from … Read More Test

Last week, my little publishing imprint Ceres Books released a new title—It’s All Speculation by Tom Hieronymus. It is a collection of writings by Tom on markets and … Read More Test

I am very pleased to share this guest blog post from Dwight Sanders of Southern Illinois University. He wrote an extended review of the newly released book It’s All Speculation … Read More Test

There has been a rousing debate going on in the last couple of years about the source of the recent round of inflation in the U.S. John Cochrane just posted … Read More Test

In a post last week, I shared one of my favorite in-class exercises on coin-flipping and random walks. A related and equally fun day in my commodity price analysis … Read More Test