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Jodi and Paul Sprague raised their daughters with a guiding principle: understand the value of a dollar. By elementary school, Evelyn and Olivia were learning about mortgages, car insurance, and basic accounting in the carpool lane.Early one June morning, before Evelyn, 17, and Olivia, 19, left for their summer jobs,…

SpaceX is building a gas turbine blade factory as it grapples with a global scramble to secure energy supplies for AI data centers.Elon Musk said on Saturday that the rocket company will manufacture its own gas turbine parts, adding that solar power alone would not be enough to power its…

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Valerie Crisp, the 38-year-old founder of Common Goods, an online Canadian marketplace. She is based in Toronto. Her words have been edited for length and clarity.The Buy Canadian movement certainly ebbs and flows. But right now I’m blown away by the way…