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By
Mike Allen
·Oct 05, 2021
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Happy Tuesday! Smart Brevity™ count: 1,194 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu.  Breaking: NIH
Director Francis Collins, 71, will announce his resignation today after
three decades at the agency, including 12 years at the helm, the
geneticist confirmed to The Washington Post.
 Join Axios' Sara Fischer, Nicholas Johnston and Aja Whitaker-Moore today at 12:30 p.m. ET for a virtual event on the changing job landscape. Guests include Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) and Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell. Sign up here.
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1 big thing: Energy gap threatens recovery
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Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
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Energy prices are climbing around the world amid extreme weather, rising demand and supply constraints. - China and India have
electricity crises, a dozen power companies in the U.K. have gone
belly-up, and Brits all over the country are facing massive gas lines,
Axios business editor Kate Marino writes.
Key stat: Prices
for both oil and natural gas have roughly doubled over the last year,
and gasoline at U.S. pumps is up by about 50% on average. The big picture:
Higher energy costs slow economic recovery. Every dollar that goes to
electric and heating bills is a dollar that isn't spent on holiday
shopping or going out to eat. - Prices may go up further this winter. Bank of America analysts estimate Brent crude oil could hit $100 per barrel — a price not seen since 2014.
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2. Taiwan preps for war
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Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Anna Moneymaker, Yorgos Karahalis/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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The Chinese military has flown a record 145 fighter
planes into Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) during the
past four days, escalating Beijing's campaign of intimidation toward the
self-governing island, Axios' Zachary Basu writes. - Why it matters: China's growing aggression toward Taiwan is raising fears of a catastrophic war.
The People's Republic of China
commemorated its 72nd annual National Day on Oct. 1 by sending 38
warplanes through Taiwan's ADIZ. That record stood until the following
day — when it sent 39 more. - State media hailed the incursions as a form of "military parade." The State Department condemned the flurry as "provocative," and reiterated the United States' "rock-solid" commitment to Taiwan.
Undeterred, China sent another 52 jets into the ADIZ yesterday. Taiwan's foreign minister told Australian television that the island is preparing for war, and urged Australia to increase security cooperation. - Chinese state media responded by asking whether Australia was "willing to accompany Taiwan separatist regime to become cannon fodder."
The big picture: During a speech earlier this year, President Xi Jinping of China pledged "complete reunification" with Taiwan. - These aren't idle threats: China has crushed democracy in Hong Kong and fortified its military presence in the disputed South China Sea.
- The U.S. has strengthened ties with Taiwan over the last several years and sold the island billions in weapons, infuriating China.
What to watch: Few
experts see a Chinese invasion of Taiwan as imminent. But the chances
of a devastating miscalculation grow each time a Chinese fighter jet
enters Taiwan's ADIZ, says Timothy Heath, senior international defense
researcher at the RAND Corporation.
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3. COVID shakes up teaching rituals
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Data: YouGov for Khan Academy. Chart: Will Chase/Axios COVID is causing most U.S. teachers to update their classroom style, Joann Muller writes from a Khan Academy poll. - More than two-thirds
of the 1,000 teachers surveyed by YouGov for Khan Academy — a nonprofit
that offers online education — said they intend to keep new tools
picked up during the pandemic.
Key findings: - 58% said they're more confident trying out new ideas to engage students.
- 56% are more confident about collaborating with their colleagues.
- 52% are more confident in communicating with families.
- 50% are more confident using technology to engage students.
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A message from JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Around 55% of Black and Latino renter households spend one-third to one-half of their income on rent, limiting their ability to build wealth.
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4. Pic du jour
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Photo: Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP Oil floats in the Pacific Ocean yesterday after an oil spill off Huntington Beach, Calif.  The Coast Guard is
investigating whether a large commercial ship set anchor in the wrong
location, dragging an oil pipeline as much as 150 feet and causing the
massive spill, the L.A. Times reports.
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5. Facebook's hell week
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Data: Yahoo Finance. Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios Facebook controversies are hurting its stock, even as its ad business continues to grow, Axios Media Trends author Sara Fischer writes. - Facebook's stock is
down roughly 15% since it hit an all-time high on Sept. 7. This is the
biggest dip since Facebook declined at the onset of the pandemic, and
the third-worst negative streak in its history.
What's happening: Facebook stock took a hit yesterday following a whistleblower's "60 Minutes" interview, and amid a major outage that shut down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp apps globally for hours. What we're watching: Facebook's
business has for years withstood controversy and scrutiny, in large
part thanks to the millions of small businesses that are hooked on cheap
Facebook ads. - Facebook rivals, free from the regulatory attention beating down on the tech giant, could be free to innovate faster.
- TikTok last week hit 1 billion users worldwide. Snapchat posted higher user and revenue growth last quarter. Facebook's main app continues to show signs of stagnant user growth.
 Latest on the outage ... Facebook says in a blog post:
"Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the
backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data
centers caused issues that interrupted this communication."
- "This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt."
Sign up here for Sara Fischer's weekly Axios Media Trends, out later today.
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6.  Stat du jour: Manhattan apartment sales hit 30-year high
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"More apartments sold in Manhattan in the third quarter than at any other time in the last 32 years," the N.Y. Times' Stefanos Chen reports (subscription). - "The fire sale is long-since over,” Gregory Heym, chief economist at Brown Harris Stevens, told The Times.
Why it matters: It's a new sign New York real estate "is set for a faster-than-expected recovery."
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7. Private space launches share less
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Photo illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios. Photo: SpaceX via Flickr
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Private space flights are disclosing less to the public than missions by NASA did, Axios Space author Miriam Kramer writes. - Why it matters: SpaceX and Blue Origin are trying to woo customers. That hinges on people having a clear picture of the risks.
What's happening: The public didn't have much access to SpaceX's Inspiration4 crew and their experiences during their orbit last month. - Much of this was logistical,
mission commander Jared Isaacman tells Axios. Because it was purely
commercial, Inspiration4 couldn't use the full network of technology
used for government missions.
 Just dropped: Miriam catches up with the Inspiration4 team in the season finale of Axios' "How it Happened: The Next Astronauts" podcast.
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8.  Baseball draws two-thirds of '19 crowds
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Fans
stand as they watch Chicago White Sox relief pitcher Liam Hendriks work
during the ninth inning against the Detroit Tigers in Chicago on
Saturday. Photo: Nam Y. Huh/AP Major League Baseball drew
45.3 million regular-season fans this year as stadiums gradually added
capacity — down from 68.5 million in 2019, the last season before the
pandemic, AP reports. - The Dodgers led the major leagues in home attendance at 2.8 million. They didn't start selling full capacity until mid-June.
- Atlanta was second at 2.3 million, followed by San Diego at 2.2 million, Texas and St. Louis at 2.1 million, and Houston at 2.07 million.
The Yankees drew 1.96 million, Boston 1.7 million and the Mets 1.5 million in Steven Cohen's first season as owner. - Miami was last at 640,000.
Only Texas began the season allowing 100% capacity. Seattle was last, on July 2. - The MLB season averaged 18,901 fans for 2,397 dates.
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A message from JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Addressing affordable housing crisis with data-driven policy
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“Businesses, community leaders and policymakers should work to
advance solutions that address housing instability. Data-driven policy
reforms will help families who have been locked out of stable,
affordable homes.” Heather Higginbottom, Head of PolicyCenter, Co-Head of Philanthropy.
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