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Isabella Weber on the Big Rethink of Inflation
Earlier this year, Odd Lots talked about the idea of companies taking advantage of bottlenecks and other disruptions to raise their prices. Since the…
2 years, 10 months ago
Jim Grant Sees an Era of Higher Rates That Could Last For Years
If you think interest rates seem high right now, you might be operating with too short of a perspective. For a longer-term perspective, you'd want to…
2 years, 10 months ago
Counterfeiting Scandals Keep Slamming the Commodities Market
Earlier this year, it emerged that the London Metals Exchange had been holding a bunch of bags filled with stones instead of the nickel needed to bac…
2 years, 10 months ago
This Is How We'll Know If the CHIPS Act Is Working
The US government is spending billions of dollars to build out state-of-the-art domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity. But spending money is …
2 years, 10 months ago
Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on AI, Software, and the End of the Tech Boom
Stewart Butterfield has been at the forefront of two epochal turning points for tech. First, he was the co-founder of the photo sharing site Flickr, …
2 years, 10 months ago
On the Debt Ceiling, the White House Is Doing What It Said It Wouldn't Do
In 2011, then-Vice President Biden had a front row seat to a bruising debt ceiling standoff between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boe…
2 years, 10 months ago
What Needs to Happen for the Renminbi to Seriously Compete With the Dollar
There's a lot of discussion these days about de-dollarization and whether the US dollar will lose its standing as the world's sole reserve currency. …
2 years, 10 months ago
We're In the Midst of Trucking Bloodbath 2.0
A couple of years ago, it was an amazing time to have a truck or be a trucker. The goods economy was absolutely booming. Prices were booming. Supply …
2 years, 10 months ago
CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam on the Fight to Regulate Crypto
We're still in the middle of a "crypto winter" with the price of coins well off their highs from back in 2021. But debates over how to regulate them …
2 years, 10 months ago
The CME's Terry Duffy on the Big Risks He's Seeing Now
Terry Duffy is the chairman and CEO of CME Group, the world's biggest derivatives exchange and a trading behemoth whose name is synonymous with Chica…
2 years, 10 months ago