Remembering the Truly Forgotten, Twenty Years Later
There’s a faded silver cup on my bookshelf. If you look closely at it, a faded imprint reads “eSpeed: We...
Peter C. Earle
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Introduction Hits Early Snags
El Salvador’s conversion into the first Bitcoin economy in the world has seen a rocky first 48 hours. Over the...
Hurricane Ida Threatens Global Plastic Markets
(By the time this article is published, Hurricane Ida will have made landfall and the aftermath will be already under...
The Lumber Market Crash
It was inevitable that lumber prices would eventually return to some state of normalcy. I wrote an article less than...
Lockdown DIY Injuries: A Lagging Indicator?
In the earliest days of the Covid pandemic, individuals opted to stay home en masse. Shortly thereafter many more stayed...
How Palladium Became a Target of Criminal Syndicates
Palladium is among the lesser known of the precious metals. Like gold and silver (and alongside platinum and rhodium), it...
Populist Prophets, Public Profits, and the Pied Pipers of Lucre
In mid-January 2021, a new administration was settling into the White House and the first hints of an end to...
Three – No, Four – Cheers for Space-Travelling Billionaires
On July 11, 2021, Sir Richard Branson and three employees of his private space venture, Virgin Galactic, traveled 53.5 miles...
Harvesting the Sickening Fruit of Lockdowns
According to the Centers for Disease Control, over 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020. That’s an all-time high,...
Lumber Prices Return to Earth
After a record price spike which took it from a low of $259 (per thousand board-feet) in April 2020 to...
The Great Semiconductor Shortage
Silicon is the crude oil of the Digital Age. Millions of metric tons are mined every year in China, Russia,...
Why Did Traffic Deaths Spike As Drivers Left Roads?
In the weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001, many thousands of Americans took to the roads and highways...
