Is there a problem with the economy in the latest build or am I missing something?

My cashflow is positive 3965 and the private cashflow is positive 149k. Empire balance is 2675 and dropping, private balance is over 4.5 mill. Why is my balance dropping? It will occasionally jump to just over 4k and ...

First game with less than an hour played. No silicon anywhere in my home system so cannot build pretty much anything. There is a planet described as a rocky silicon planet that has no silicon :( go figure.

Explorer ships head out to other star systems and find a planet. This planet has something ...