Here's What Just Happened to the Stock Market and the Economy
It's really been an extraordinary year for markets and the economy. Stocks are down, particularly, growth stocks which have gotten clobbered. Treasuries are down. Inflation is hotter than it's been in...
9 Maj 202250min
This Is What's Next for the Future of Air Travel
The aviation industry has never seen a disruption like what it's experienced over the last two years with the pandemic. Air travel ground to a virtual halt initially, but has slowly been climbing out ...
5 Maj 202259min
Javier Blas Explains How Commodity Trading Shops Really Work
One of the big themes these days is the return of the 'real' economy. You can't solve problems these days with just money. Not everything can be done by sitting behind a screen. And so some of the mos...
2 Maj 202255min
This Is How a Locked-Down Shanghai Apartment Gets Food
Shanghai, a city of nearly 30 million people, is currently under a hard lockdown, as the Chinese government sticks to its Covid Zero strategy of limiting the virus at all costs. There have been some s...
29 Apr 202241min
This Is What Happened to the Meme Stock Mania
Spring of 2021 was peak meme mania. GameStop was going nuts. AMC was going nuts. And in general, the big cohort of traders that entered the market in early 2020 was riding high. Since then, though, th...
28 Apr 202254min
Sam Bankman-Fried and Matt Levine on How to Make Money in Crypto
The price of major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have been moving sideways for awhile. But it doesn't seem like there's any slowdown in terms of money entering the space. Every day, some ...
25 Apr 202256min
The 1906 Dredging Law That May Be Holding Back The U.S. Economy
The long grounding of the cargo ship The Ever Forward has shone a spotlight on the limited dredging equipment that exists in the U.S. The most powerful equipment here has significantly less capacity t...
20 Apr 202250min
This Is The Challenge Of Securing The Battery Supply Chain
With oil prices surging, there's a sense of greater urgency about moving more towards electric vehicles. But of course the metals that go into EVs are also expensive. And that goes for the core techno...
18 Apr 202248min
