While the planet’s supply-chain issues have roiled industries and hit consumers with higher costs, the convulsions have also presented an opportunity for generous profits for some investors. Mangrove Partners in New York bought four Panamax…
U.K.’s Conservatives to Relax Homebuilding Rules, Sun Reports
A worker on a home build construction site Bristol, U.K.. Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg The Conservative Party plans to loosen rules on homebuilding as part of a drive to ease shortages in Britain’s…
Why Trump Relishes the Upcoming Impeachment Battle
Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the…
The Beer & Booze Company Behind Corona, Svedka…
Welcome to the Consumerist Archives Thanks for visiting Consumerist.com. As of October 2017, Consumerist is no longer producing new content, but feel free to browse through our archives. Here you can find 12 years worth…
ECB’s Knot Defends Going Public With QE Rebuke…
Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg Dutch policy maker Klaas Knot defended his decision to go public with his dissent from the European Central Bank’s decision to restart bond-purchases after a contentious meeting that exposed…
US Retail Bankruptcies / Store Closures 2019
These charts are brutal: Source: BDO This is pretty astonishing: “The pace of retail bankruptcies in 2019 to date is accelerated compared to what we observed in late 2018. The 2018 holiday season…
10 Wednesday AM Reads
My midweek morning train reads: • 50 Years ago, financial planning founders started a movement — and created a profession (Investment News)• Hooray, LDI Is Progressively Making Corporate Pension Portfolios Less Risky (CIO)• The Anthropocene:…
Vanguard and BlackRock Dominate
Source: Morningstar The question that I have been getting a lot this year is this: “Why do you spend so much time writing about Vanguard?” I heard it after I wrote several columns…
You 2.0: Tunnel Vision
NPR: Have you ever noticed that when something important is missing in your life, your brain can only seem to focus on that missing thing? Two researchers have dubbed this phenomenon scarcity, and they…