Need to Know
Stories, links, images, and videos that'll make you a smarter economic developer. Published 7x per week.
Assorted Links Monday
Walmart's challenges, new trends in alcohol, equity at the EDA, the great wings rush, and more.
Assorted Links Friday
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.
Assorted Links Thursday
We must be builders, old golf courses are turning into industrial space, creative destruction, and so much more.
Assorted Links Wednesday
The southwest is America’s new factory hub, how the world ran out of everything, a new podcast episode, and more.
Assorted Links Friday
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.
Assorted Links Tuesday
What I'm reading today on housing unaffordability, cosmetics as the new toilet paper, an unappetizing return of Brood X, and more.
Assorted Links Sunday
Apple and the end of the car as we know it, more microchips, corporate relocations, and Kenny McDonald on post-COVID.
Assorted Links Friday
Parking lots, pallets, hand sanitizer, and more.
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."
Assorted Links Wednesday
Minerals, inflation, supply chains, the creator economy, COVID denialism, defining economic growth, rising wages, broadband, and more.