More moving trucks left from California than any other state in 2022 for the third year in a row, while more Americans are flocking to Republican-led states like Texas and Florida, a new study published on Jan. 3 has found. The study was conducted by the moving truck rental company, U-Haul, and foun...
We’ve done our best to put together 22 points that we think tell the story of this year in crypto. Everything shown is as of December 26th or December 27th. 1. Total crypto and stablecoins market cap 2021: +$162mn per hour 2022: -$164m per hour Almost exactly, 2022 undid every dollar crypto and stab...
The year 2022 brings an end to an era of illusions: a year that saw the end of the post–Cold War era and the return of geopolitics; the first energy crisis of the enforced energy transition to net zero; and the year that brought environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing down to earth wit...
In early 2020, during my first visit in Zimbabwe, my assumption that Bitcoin is needed the most in the Global South was confirmed. I found a nation in distress about money, because of a kleptocratic ruling elite that had been defrauding and stealing from their people by inflating the national curren...
Second-to-last chance to get it wrong in '22! It’s US inflation day. The median market expectation is 0.3% m-o-m and 7.3% y-o-y headline, and 0.3% m-o-m and 6.1% y-o-y core. Nobody knows what we will actually get. Energy prices are still declining, despite massive opacity over what is actually going...
Black Knight’s HPI showed that while home prices continued to pull back in October, the month’s 0.43% decline (a seasonally adjusted 0.13% decrease) was the smallest seen since prices peaked in June Annualized appreciation slowed to 9.3% from September’s 10.7%, marking the seventh consecutive month...
It seems like every month when household bills come due, we grumble about how the cost of living has gone up again. But it's not just anecdotal. According to this year's Worldwide Cost of Living Index, released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the average cost of living is up 8.1% in 202...