She starts with a question about how my three-year-around-the-world trip changed the way I look at things. Interesting question because it did change the way I look at things (video).
“Sublease Pandemic?” Office leasing activity plunged or collapsed, depending on city, even as huge amounts of sublease space that companies no longer need got dumped on the market.
A lump-sum payment in digital dollars for all Americans during a recession or to raise inflation, as an alternative to QE and negative interest rates, which have failed (transcript of my podcast).
Income sags from eerie stimulus-spike. But consumers hadn’t spent all their stimulus & unemployment money, instead paid down credit cards & padded bank accounts. Now they’re drawing on them.
