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Data Centers, Crypto Miners, and Gamers Are All Battling for Semiconductors
These days, there's a shortage of chips everywhere you look. Some of it is related to idiosyncratic events specifically related to logistics. Some of…
4 years, 10 months ago
Daniela Gabor on the Critical Case Against Private Sector ESG
Over the last few years, ESG has become a gigantic industry. Due to concerns over climate, the treatment of workers, and other public matters, there'…
4 years, 10 months ago
Aaron Lammer on Yield Farming and Trading in the World of DeFi
"Decentralized Finance," "Yield farming"... you've probably heard these terms before, but have very little idea about how they all work. On a recent …
4 years, 10 months ago
How the World's Companies Wound Up in a Deepening Supply Chain Nightmare
By now, everybody knows that global supply chains are a mess. Not a day goes by where there isn't news of some shortage or bottleneck. Chips, shippin…
4 years, 10 months ago
Jared Bernstein on Taxes, Spending, and Why President Biden Wants to 'Pay for It'
Jared Bernstein has been a longtime advisor to President Joe Biden. He was his advisor while Biden was Vice President, and today he serves on the Cou…
4 years, 10 months ago
A Special Announcement From Joe and Tracy
Please check out this special announcement from Joe and Tracy, who have an update on a new Odd Lots initiative, involving a new blog, show transcript…
4 years, 10 months ago
Viktor Shvets on Inflation and How Crypto Could Cause the Next Financial Crisis
What will the economy really look like when things normalize? Lots of people are, of course, anticipating a sustained rise in inflation, even beyond …
4 years, 11 months ago
Hayden Adams Explains Uniswap and the Rise of DeFi
There's an irony with crypto. While so much of it is ostensibly about circumventing legacy finance, many of the most important pieces of crypto infra…
4 years, 11 months ago
How to Make the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Boom Again
This year, everyone's become aware of the hollowing out of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity. Whether it's the rise of TSMC, the stumbles at …
4 years, 11 months ago
What Adam Tooze Learned About the World Last Year
There's probably nobody better at synthesizing massive events like Columbia professor Adam Tooze. His book Crashed, which came out in 2018, was proba…
4 years, 11 months ago