by Ty Davison | Jun 23, 2021 | News & Commentary
Opinion | What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor – The New York Times: The American economy runs on poverty, or at least the constant threat of it. Americans like their goods cheap and their services plentiful and the two of them, together,...
by Ty Davison | May 10, 2021 | News & Commentary
Inflation in the economy may be making a comeback – The Washington Post: Significant price increases have affected used cars, medical care, appliances, energy, food and cigarettes in recent months, according to government data. Gas prices headed higher on Monday...
by Ty Davison | May 30, 2020 | News & Commentary
Restaurants are barely surviving the pandemic. Delivery apps will kill them: He posted an image of the invoice on Facebook, touching off a rebellion among disgruntled delivery service users and workers. A DoorDash driver posted a screen shot of the $4.75 fee the...
by Ty Davison | May 30, 2020 | News & Commentary
Doordash, GrubHub, UberEats all leave a bad taste. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage – Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk: In March 2019 a good friend who owns a few pizza restaurants messaged me (this friend has made appearances in prior Margins’ pieces). For...
by Ty Davison | Mar 5, 2020 | News & Commentary
Australian National University has run seven scenarios on the likely worldwide outcomes of the SARS-CoV 2 viral pandemic. Best case scenario (low severity model): Global GDP loss of $2.4 trillion with an estimated 15 million dead. Worse case scenario (high severity...
