What Really Happens When You Donate Your Clothes—And Why It’s Bad
NYLON · 6 minBlame fast fashion.
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Why America has 8.4 million unemployed when there are 10 million job openings
The Washington PostThe economy is undergoing massive changes. There’s a big mismatch at the moment between the jobs available and what workers want.
How the pandemic turned humble shipping containers into the hottest items on the planet
CNN · 6 minRoughly 18 months into the Covid-19 pandemic, global shipping is still in crisis, with backlogs looming over the peak holiday shopping period.
Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain
The Guardian · 26 minAmid the complex web of international trade, proving the authenticity of a product can be near-impossible. But one company is taking the search to the atomic level.
Three Family Members, One Business. Robbing Armored Cars.
Truly*Adventurous · 36 minA man returns home from the army and gets a surprising offer from his father: Join the family business and help mom & pop pull off a string of daring cross-country heists. No one expects the betrayals coming.
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The rush to net zero could hit the economy as hard as the 1973-74 oil crisis
The Globe and Mail · 4 minYou own a house that needs repairs, but you’re a lazy penny-pincher who keeps delaying the jobs. A violent rainstorm hits your house, your basement floods and the roof leaks. Suddenly, you’re rushing to arrange hugely expensive overhauls to keep the house livable.
‘Forever Changed’: CEOs Are Dooming Business Travel — Maybe for Good
Bloomberg · 1 minTake Akzo Nobel NV, Europe’s biggest paint maker, for instance.
America’s Investing Boom Goes Far Beyond Reddit Bros
The Atlantic · 14 minRobinhood traders have earned the most attention, but they’re only part of a larger story about class stagnation and distrust. On a Wednesday in June, deep in a corner of the Reddit message board r/WallstreetBets, a user going by Your_Boy_Roy_ published a lengthy post.
The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport
The Guardian · 18 minIn the 1890s, the biggest cities of the western world faced a mounting problem. Horse-drawn vehicles had been in use for thousands of years, and it was hard to imagine life without them.
Why interest rates will stay low until there are major societal changes. Plus, a new way to bet against the Canadian housing market and our banks
The Globe and Mail · 4 minIt’s been a long while since a paper caused as much stir in financial circles as Matthew Klein’s Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks. Mr.
The Behavioral Economics Manifesto Gets Revised
NPR · 7 minSure, the book Nudge may have become a cultural phenomenon that ended up selling millions of copies. And, OK, it resulted in hundreds of governments and countless companies around the world adopting its concepts and methods.
Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest
Bloomberg · 7 minJoel Johnson laughs nervously from the backseat when his self-driving taxi stops in the middle of a busy road in suburban Phoenix. The car, operated by autonomous vehicle pioneer Waymo, has encountered a row of traffic cones in a construction zone, and won’t move.
Western economies can’t return to ‘business as usual’ after the pandemic
The Guardian · 4 minAs western economies emerge from the pandemic, their governments face a choice: do they seek to address the profound problems that Covid exposed, or try to return to “business as usual” as quickly as possible? Their problem is that many of the issues exacerbated by the pandemic, such as wage sta
Research: How to Position a Luxury Brand as Sustainable
Harvard Business Review · 8 minA 2018 global survey by Accenture Strategy of 30,000 consumers in 35 countries indicated that nearly two-thirds of them (62%) find brands with high ethical values attractive.
How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work
The New Yorker · 15 minCompanies must move away from surveillance and visible busyness, and toward defined outcomes and trust.
Trickle-Down Economics Has Failed Its Growth Mission
Bloomberg · 1 minThe bipartisan infrastructure bill recently passed by the Senate is a sign that U.S. leaders are starting to think differently about government investment.
Why Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure
Time · 7 min“Technologists with a single-minded focus on efficiency frequently take for granted that the goals they pursue are worth.”
The Endless Digital Workday
Harvard Business Review · 10 minAfter nearly a year and a half of decentralized collaboration, companies all over the world are redefining their vision of what it means to be “at work.
Banks halt sales of third-party mutual funds to prepare for rule change
The Globe and Mail · 4 minSeveral of Canada’s largest banks have halted sales of third-party investment products from their financial planning arms as new regulatory rules will soon require advisers to have deeper knowledge of the funds they recommend to clients.
From Doge Soldiers to Bitcoinists: A Field Guide to the Crypto Faithful
Bloomberg · 1 minFor Ethereans, maxis, yield farmers, and no-coiners, digital assets aren’t just an investment but a way of life.
How Susceptible Are You to the Sunk Cost Fallacy?
Harvard Business Review · 6 minMany managers are susceptible to the famous sunk cost effect, whereby they persist investing in a money-losing project even when it makes sense to invest the new money in alternative new projects.
Hedge fund pay, revealed: How much engineers, associates, and researchers make at AQR, Bridgewater, Citadel, D.E. Shaw, Point72, and Two Sigma
Business Insider · 5 minFor many Wall Street aspirants, a career at a top hedge fund is the holy grail. For those who succeed, compensation has the potential to eclipse nearly any other profession in the country — let alone finance. The hedge fund industry has transformed over the past 15 years.
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