Understanding Turkey’s Bold Plan To Stabilize the Lira
The Turkish lira was incredibly volatile in 2021. After getting crushed and falling to record levels, it bounced back in the middle of December after the government announced an unconventional plan to...
3 Tammi 202245min
Mike Demarais on Design in Crypto and What Web 3.0 Will Look Like
Everyone's talking about Web 3.0 (or Web3), but there's a lot of ambiguity about what exactly it's going to look like or even what it is. Nonetheless, there's a lot of enthusiasm about a crypto-based,...
27 Joulu 202153min
Jon Turek on the Macro Outlook for 2022
2021 was a historic year for markets and the broader economy. For the first time, seemingly in ages, there was a serious shift in realized inflation and the broader inflation outlook. This has ramific...
23 Joulu 202148min
Gene Seroka on What’s Happening Now at the Port of LA
There's no single measure we can look at to tell us whether supply chains are improving or not. There are some signs of easing (such as the number of containers sitting at the ports) but other signs a...
20 Joulu 202139min
This Is the Booming Movement To Abolish Work as We Know It
Over a million people are members of a subreddit called r/AntiWork, whose slogan is "Unemployment for all, not just the rich." While the page and movement have been around for awhile, discontent with ...
16 Joulu 202159min
Why the Price of Wooden Shipping Pallets Has Soared
The humble wooden shipping pallet is probably not something that most people think about too much. But it's a huge deal. At Virginia Tech, there's a whole center that focuses on pallets and packaging....
13 Joulu 202153min
This Is Why the Nation Is Facing a School Bus Driver Shortage
There have been a lot of stories about the challenges of keeping schools open over the last two years, much to the consternation of many parents. But, for many students, going to school involves first...
9 Joulu 202151min
Richard Bookstaber on the Big Structural Risk in the Market Right Now
The stock market has basically been a one-way ship for 20 months now. So of course, some people get nervous about that, and start wondering if we're in some unsustainable bubble that can only end badl...
6 Joulu 202149min
