Podcast Episodes

Climate corp 🌎 — Patagonia founder gives the company away. Adobe buys Figma. Walmart has a new styling feature.

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Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, along with his family, gave away control of the ~US$3 billion company to a trust and a nonprofit organization tackl…

3 years, 8 months ago

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The Merge 🔌 — Ethereum is going to proof of stake. Shopify is restaffing their leadership. And EU energy execs are doing too well.

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Ethereum, a blockchain platform supporting over 50% of the total value of the decentralized finance industry, is shifting to a less energy-intensive …

3 years, 8 months ago

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Collection time ⏰ — The Twitter and Musk feud is nearing its climax. US inflation numbers are bad. And the Feds haven’t been able to get their loans back.

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Join us for a live recording of The Peak Daily at the Bet on Canada Summit on November 8th. Buy tickets here: https://readthepeak.com/events/bet-on-c…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Climate coalition 🌨 — Modern-day slavery is a huge problem. The bond market is suffering. And there’s concern over Canada’s new climate laws.

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In 2021, 50 million people across the globe were in some form of modern slavery, including 28 million working under forced labour conditions, per a n…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Stress test 🏠 — Canada’s unemployment rate is up. Google is in hot water. And Canadians want to revise the stress test.

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Canada’s unemployment rate is up for the first time in seven months, which means that high interest rates have (done what they do best and) thrown co…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Her Majesty 👑 — Canada has a new inflation support plan. The super yacht industry is booming. Corporations are pulling back.

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The federal government announced a new three-pronged plan to introduce temporary relief measures aimed at helping low-income Canadians beat back infl…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Basis points ⬆️ — The Bank of Canada announced a 0.75% rate hike. New iPhones. And markets are going haywire.

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As expected, the BoC delivered another oversized rate hike, bumping the overnight interest rates up to 3.25% from 2.50% (or 75 basis points, if you’r…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Nordstream none 👩‍🔧 — The European Commission is considering fixing energy prices. Canada is falling behind on EVs. And we’re not hitting our climate targets.

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Record-high natural gas prices are climbing higher, sending inflation soaring across the region. According to the European Commission (EC), fixing pr…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Pumpkin spice 🍂 — G7 put a cap on Russian oil prices. Starbucks has a new CEO. And Chengdu is in lockdown.

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G7 nations have agreed to impose a cap on the price of Russian oil imports, despite Russian threats to cut off cold turkey any country that tries to …

3 years, 8 months ago

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Toxic 🧪 — The US is blocking Nvidia from selling chips to China. Disney is launching a version of Prime. And some dollar store products were found to be toxic.

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The US is blocking chipmaker Nvidia from selling some of its advanced products to China, according to the company’s latest filing with the Securities…

3 years, 8 months ago

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