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Day: September 17, 2024

Adventures in Housing

Los Angeles' "dingbat" apartments are a kitschy piece of the past

by Sean McHenry
Sep 17, 2024
Shaped by the car culture, dingbats are going obsolete due to earthquake risk. But their names and style flourishes bring nostalgic smiles.
Dingbat dwellings were once a staple in LA, but they've required retrofitting in the quake-prone city.
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Our old electrical grid is limiting how much wind and solar power we can use

by Caleigh Wells
Sep 17, 2024
It isn't easy to upgrade a 20th-century system of transmission lines, generating stations and home outlets for 21st-century needs.
Solar and wind power generate direct current, which must be converted to alternating current to "play well" with the existing electrical grid, historian Julie Cohn says.
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Homebuilder confidence up ahead of expected rate cuts

by Elizabeth Trovall
Sep 17, 2024
Easing monetary policy would make construction and mortgage loans cheaper, potentially lifting a depressed housing market.
Lower rates would make homes cheaper to build and bring down mortgage costs a bit.
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Streets used to be full of kids playing. Can those spaces be reclaimed?

by Kai Ryssdal and Sarah Leeson
Sep 17, 2024
As neighborhoods experiment with play streets, grownups can reconsider modern parenting, Stephanie Murray wrote in The Atlantic.
Children playing safely on city streets may be a thing of the past.
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Let's double-click on the jargon execs use in earnings calls

by Stephanie Hughes
Sep 17, 2024
Company leaders repurpose certain familiar words and phrases to create a narrative about how their businesses are doing.
People who use the term “economic moat” to describe a company’s competitive advantage may want to imitate billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has used the phrase for decades.
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Despite all the recent growth, e-commerce still has room to expand

by Samantha Fields
Sep 17, 2024
About 20% of retail sales are online these days.
Practices like curbside pickup for online orders, which was popularized early in the pandemic, have made it difficult to track just how many sales are made online versus in person.
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Bill Gates: Solving malnutrition is both a global health and economic imperative

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Sep 17, 2024
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is focusing on the need to invest in global health in its 2024 Goalkeepers Report.
"It's an investment in their stability, their child survival, their helping the world economy," Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said. Malnutrition is a key focus of this year's Goalkeepers Report, which the Foundation releases annually to track progress on United Nations' targets for global improvement.
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What wholesale inventories tell us about the upcoming holiday shopping season

by Justin Ho
Sep 17, 2024
Things seem to be reverting to a pre-pandemic normal, say analysts.
"We’ve now been able to go back to just-in-time inventory management," said Zac Rogers at Colorado State University.
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