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Walmart's challenges, new trends in alcohol, equity at the EDA, the great wings rush, and more.

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How to navigate the 'Great Reset', how COVID has changed economics and inspired a new generation of entrepreneurs, give yourself the freedom to be creative, and more.

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We must be builders, old golf courses are turning into industrial space, creative destruction, and so much more.

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The southwest is America’s new factory hub, how the world ran out of everything, a new podcast episode, and more.

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Could the global home price boom haunt COVID recovery, what's up with the "parking lot" off the coast near California's ports, and more.

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What I'm reading today on housing unaffordability, cosmetics as the new toilet paper, an unappetizing return of Brood X, and more.

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Apple and the end of the car as we know it, more microchips, corporate relocations, and Kenny McDonald on post-COVID.

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Parking lots, pallets, hand sanitizer, and more.

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Assorted Links Thursday

Thousands of empty call centers, and "if getting back to normal means no more pictures of dogs watching Zoom meetings, then I don't want to go back."

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Minerals, inflation, supply chains, the creator economy, COVID denialism, defining economic growth, rising wages, broadband, and more.

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