Elon Musk Dominates Outer Space Like Nobody Has Before
The company that Elon Musk is most known for, obviously, is Tesla. It's been extraordinarily successful and made him one of the richest people in the world. But his true love may be SpaceX, the rocket...
12 Jun 202448min
This Is How the Food Industry Is Preparing For a Post-Ozempic World
The rise of GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, is a potentially existential threat to the makers of salty, sugary, high-calorie snack foods. But it's obvious that the gigantic food industry will search out wa...
10 Jun 202447min
Lots More with Kyla Scanlon on the Economic Vibes
Kyla Scanlon has a great way of identifying the economic vibes, building up a massive TikTok following with videos about the Federal Reserve, inflation, markets, and more. She also coined the viral te...
7 Jun 202428min
Orsted's Americas CEO on Fixing What Went Wrong in Wind Power
Last year was a bad one for the US wind power industry, with lots of cancelled projects, writedowns, and an overall reassessment of how the math behind these mega projects might shake out in an era of...
6 Jun 202452min
Corporations Learned The Maximum Amount They Can Charge For a Product
What's the price of a hamburger? Well, it depends. Are you making the purchase on the spot? Did you order ahead using an app? Are you a frequent customer of the burger chain? With inflation having sur...
3 Jun 202455min
Lots More on the Two Troubled NYC Office Buildings Everyone's Talking About
Over the past two weeks, two New York City office buildings have become major talking points in the market for commercial real estate. Troubles at 1740 Broadway led to the first loss in the AAA-rated ...
31 Mai 202422min
The Big Problem With the Modern Electricity Grid
The modern electricity grid is a weird thing. The delivery of electricity is a natural monopoly, for kind of obvious reasons. Despite that, we still attempt to shoehorn market-based mechanisms into th...
30 Mai 202444min
Are We Doing Decarbonization Totally the Wrong Way?
The cost of solar has been plunging for years. Everyday there's a new headline about growing installation of renewables or batteries, or some other sign of progress when it comes to decarbonization. B...
29 Mai 202446min
