The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Deven Parekh, Insight Partners on PE/VC, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod…
by Calculated Risk on 8/18/2025 08:11:00 AM Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 0.1% week-over-week.Inventory is now up 37.7% from the seasonal bottom in January. Usually, inventory is up about 22% from the seasonal low by this week in…
In my post, “How You’ll Feel Achieving Various Millionaire Milestones,” a commenter named Joseph shared these thoughts: “I’m fascinated by someone worth $10M or $20M not feeling wealthy. Are they hanging out with nothing but billionaires? The only other explanation is a scarcity…
UK grant schemes for battery electric vans and trucks have been extended to 2027 in a bid to help more drivers and businesses make the sift to electric vehicles (EVs), the Department for Transport (DfT)...
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Fans Say Costco’s New Sparkling Protein Drink Is “Revolutionary” Delish And just like that, the CEO of Genius Gourmet, the maker of the “revolutionary” sparkling protein water just deleted his LinkedIn. 👀🫠 https://t.co/1q6jRLxz3l pic.twitter.com/uEIcEytZEl — James Li (@5149jamesli) August 17, 2025…
It would seem fitting to try to pick my way through the press accounts of the Trump-Putin summit, except they are abjectly awful, chock-full of obvious bogosities and spin. Exhibit 1 of the horrorshow of mainstream reporting is the Wall Street…
A battery energy storage system (BESS) purported to be the UK's largest to date has been connected to the grid in Essex, operator Statera Energy has announced today. The company, which owns and operates...
We’ve been tracking the story of RealPage—a purported rental management software company owned by private equity giant Thoma Bravo that in reality acts as a rent-fixing middleman for property giants across the country—for some time, and it’s unfortunately time for another…
Despite growing concern about climate change, many countries have seen backlashes against certain environmental policies, often because they are seen as costly, restrictive or unfair. In France, an...
It's not easy being Chancellor when the economic mood is so glum. Rachel Reeves faces low growth and stagnating productivity. Meanwhile, the cost of servicing the national debt is rising. All this...
BusinessGreen Intelligence: What problem does your technology or innovation solve, and how? Charlie Metcalfe: Following a rigorous two-year test and development program, Halcyon has developed a proprietary,...
By Alexander Kaurov and Naomi Oreskes. Kaurov is a Ph.D. astrophysicist and Ph.D. candidate in the School of Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington, specializing in computational analysis of scientific discourse. Oreskes is a historian of science at Harvard…
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Member-only storyWhy Banks Fear MeBlockfuturist5 min read·1 day ago--I never intended to change the way money works. It wasn’t a childhood fantasy or a big plan to make the world a better place.There was no other choice.I had full faith in…
As societies become richer, and basic needs are satisfied, zero-sum positional contests gain more prominence, while the regular positivesum benefits of markets subside in the background. As long argued by Hirsch, Frank and others, the institutions for managing resource scarcity and…
By Dr. Jim Dahle, WCI Founder Josh Katzowitz, our content director, reads financial pornography. I've been trying to break him of that habit, but instead, he seems more successful in getting me to read it and, worse, write about it. The…
This recently published paper by Selim Sametoğlu, Dirk H. M. Pelt, and Meike Bartels, is based on a clever idea, namely to look at twin studies to see if heavy social media users have innate tendenciees toward lower social well-being. Overall…
by Calculated Risk on 8/17/2025 07:16:00 PM Weekend: • Schedule for Week of August 17, 2025Monday: • At 10:00 AM ET, The August NAHB homebuilder survey. The consensus is for a reading of 34, up from 33. Any number below 50…
Clean Growth Fund (CGF) has today announced it has secured £49m worth of investment towards its second fund, which is hoping to raise £150m to accelerate the next generation of net zero innovation in the...
The Transition Finance Council has today unveiled draft guidelines to help investors assess high-emitting firms' decarbonisation efforts and unlock crucial investment to support emissions intensive sectors...
With the outsized jump in the PPI, the natural question to ask is whether this implies a jump in the CPI. The evidence is mixed in terms of the aggregate PPI and the aggregate CPI, as noted in this post. More…
The people who are really good understand sourcing and how important it is for critical thinking. The education should be focused on helping people recognize and refute bullshit. Step one is the critical thinking necessary to say, “This makes no sense,”…
From Daily Signal: President Donald Trump was right to fire BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, a Biden appointee, for these mistakes, even if they were the result of systemic flaws, not partisanship. Antoni, whom Trump nominated as her replacement on Monday, can…
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1. Australia’s great stagnation. 2. Ezra Klein interviews Natasha Sarin (NYT). She is not only an excellent economist, but she avoids exaggeration, an increasingly rare trait in public discourse. 3. “Researchers at Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Optosurgical trained SRT-H, a dual-transformer…
by Calculated Risk on 8/17/2025 09:01:00 AM From Goldman: On net, we boosted our Q3 GDP tracking estimate by 0.2pp to +1.4% (quarter-over-quarter annualized) and our Q3 domestic final sales estimate by 0.3pp to +0.2%. We left our past quarter GDP…
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Answer: America won. Every generation launches a new competitor to America and the people who don’t like capitalism and America’s individualist, free market economy trumpet that now the American way is being left in the dust. In the progressive era it…
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By Dr. Jim Dahle, WCI Founder Some new investors are surprised to learn that their tax bill goes up when they start investing. While investments often receive favorable tax treatment compared to earned income, the income they produce is generally taxable…
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by Calculated Risk on 8/16/2025 08:11:00 AM The key reports this week are July Housing Starts and Existing Home sales.Fed Chair Jerome Powell will speak on the "Economic Outlook" at the Jackson Hole Symposium on Friday. ----- Monday, August 18th -----…
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