Steve Eisman on the 'Paradigm Shift' Happening in Markets Right Now
After a decade of dominance, 2022 saw tech stocks badly underperform the rest of the market. However, so far in 2023, tech stocks and other speculations have surged again. According to Steve Eisman, w...
6 Feb 202348min
Viktor Shvets Declares Victory for Team Transitory and the Soft Landing
It was looking bad there for awhile for Team Transitory. Anyone who had previously even uttered the word "transitory" in regards to inflation was regretting having used it. But lately the term is cree...
1 Feb 202347min
The "Big Shift" That's Finally Causing Rents to Fall
Rent inflation went wild in 2021 and 2022, turning it into one of the most substantial drivers of overall inflation. But good news: it seems pretty clear that rents are now finally falling. Private se...
30 Jan 202341min
Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks
Southwest Airlines had a disastrous holiday season, thanks in part to a software bug that left crews out of place and grounded thousands of flights. But Southwest isn't alone in having software in the...
26 Jan 202347min
What The Heck Is Happening With the Price of Eggs?
The price of eggs rose 60% in 2022, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Meanwhile, wholesale egg prices are up 300% in the last year, creating a chart that looks almost parabolic. So what's going...
23 Jan 202340min
The 'Widowmaker' Crypto Trade That Helped Blow Up an Industry
Over the last year, numerous things have gone wrong for the crypto industry. (Too many to list.) But one thing we've learned is that there's an incredibly high degree of interconnectedness between var...
20 Jan 202337min
Isabella Weber On a New Way to Think About Inflation
In economics, there tends to be two dominant ways of thinking about inflation. Either you agree with Milton Friedman, who described inflation as always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon (the result...
19 Jan 202337min
Ex-Logger Aims to Beat Elon Musk in Electric Trucks
While electric vehicle use is growing rapidly, the internal combustion engine remains completely dominant in the world of heavy trucks. At some point in the future, Tesla has a plan to commercialize a...
16 Jan 202352min
