In today's Breakfast Brief, we discuss the US Senate passing of the Inflation Reduction Act, that earmarks $369 billion for U.S. energy security and to battle climate change. Over in China, export growth in July picks up unexpectedly yet imports remains sluggish. And once again, Elon Musk provokes Twitter but this time, challenges the company’s CEO Parag Agrawal to a “public debate” about fake accounts and spam.