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Chris Hughes on How to Craft a Thriving Market
Over the last several years, both parties in the US have been drifting away from laissez-faire thinking about the economy, and more towards the view …
11 months ago
What The 'Lentil King of Saskatchewan' Knows About World Trade
We don't know what the end state for the tariffs are going to be, but inevitably there will be some shifts in the way that goods and dollars flow aro…
11 months, 1 week ago
Blackstone's King of Hedge Funds on Alt Investing Right Now
Everyone knows by now that college endowment funds have gone big on alternative investing, pouring billions of dollars into private equity and hedge …
11 months, 1 week ago
Some of America's Most Important Economic Data Is Decaying
Gathering official economic data is a huge process in the best of times. But a bunch of different things have now combined to make that process even …
11 months, 1 week ago
What We Learned About Treasuries on the Night of April 8
When stocks are plunging in a typical market environment, people reach for safe haven assets like US Treasuries. But we've seen that phenomenon break…
11 months, 1 week ago
Lots More on How TikTok Options Traders Got Quiet
Over the last few years, retail traders have gotten into options in a major way. Selling puts, buying calls, trading volatility — what used to be the…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Anna Wong: Empty Shelves Are Coming Soon
If you look at most of the official hard data right now, there still isn't much evidence of a sharp downturn. Sure, all the surveys are abysmal, but …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
David Woo: What Trump Started is Worse Than a Trade War
For the most part, Americans haven't felt much pain yet from the tariffs that Donald Trump introduced (and then partially walked back) on April 2. Th…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Big Take: What a Bacon, Egg and Cheese Teaches Us About the Economy
When it comes to measuring economic pain, the cost of a humble breakfast sandwich might not be top of mind. But Bloomberg has an index that tracks th…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
This Is What President Biden's CHIPS Office Actually Did
One of the stated goals for the current trade war is to build more industrial capacity in the United States. So far there doesn't seem to be much of …
11 months, 2 weeks ago