These Are the Goods

Posted January 15, 2023 by Michael Batnick

Articles

They took deposits, they used the deposits to make loans, the loans went bad, the depositors panicked, they asked for their money back, the money wasn’t there. (By Matt Levine)

What many people really want from money is the ability to stop thinking about money (By Morgan Housel)

Workers have likely never had more bargaining power than they do right now. (By Ben Carlson)

Declining interest rates are far more important at the extremes (By Nick Maggiulli)

It was time to make an offer (By Blair DuQuesnay)

Podcasts

Are we heading into a screenwriting recession? (With Matt Belloni and Franklin Leonard)

Everybody seems to be suffering at the same time (With Derek Thompson and Rich Greenfield)

It tends to give out a lot of false signals (With Tracy Alloway, Joe Weisenthal, Neil Dutta, and Conor Sen)