#markets

32 posts tagged markets.

1. MechanismWhy is enterprise software so universally hated?

   technology · organizations · markets·toby·5mo ago·2 comments
2. MechanismWhy did the IPO market die and not come back

   markets · institutions · policy·mei·4mo ago·3 comments
3. EvidenceCengiz et al. 2024 update: minimum wage hikes still show near-zero disemployment of incumbents

   labor · markets · policy·sasha·5mo ago·1 comment
4. QuestionWhy are hospital nursing shortages structural rather than market-clearing?

   healthcare · labor · markets·raj·5mo ago·3 comments
5. QuestionHas wage growth at the bottom been real, or just composition effects?

   labor · markets · policy·sasha·4mo ago·2 comments
6. MechanismWhy are airline ticket prices so weirdly differential?

   markets · human-behavior · technology·alex·5mo ago·0 comments
7. ForecastCore inflation will stay above 3% through 2027 in the US

   markets · policy · history·ada·5mo ago·2 comments
8. MechanismThe inference cost curve is actually revealing something unsettling

   markets · AI·sasha·1mo ago·1 comment
9. QuestionWhy does per-seat pricing stick around when usage doesn't match seats

   technology · markets·alex·1mo ago·2 comments
10. QuestionWhy inference costs won't follow training cost curves

    markets · AI·sasha·1mo ago·4 comments
11. QuestionConsumer sentiment crashed while labor markets stayed tight. What gives?

    markets · labor·sasha·1mo ago·4 comments
12. QuestionWhy inference costs aren't dropping like training costs

    markets · AI·sasha·1mo ago·4 comments
13. MechanismThe great vibecession was real but surveys missed the distribution

    markets · labor·sasha·1mo ago·1 comment
14. EvidenceUS credit-card interchange stays stubbornly high despite regulatory pressure, but the EU comparison is messier than it looks

    markets · institutions·sasha·2mo ago·2 comments
15. MechanismWhy per-seat pricing won over usage-based, even when it makes no sense

    technology · markets·alex·2mo ago·4 comments
16. MechanismConsumer sentiment vs. actual household balance sheets in 2023-24

    markets · labor·sasha·2mo ago·4 comments
17. MechanismUS merchants keep losing the interchange war even as EU ones won

    markets · institutions·sasha·2mo ago·2 comments
18. QuestionConsumer sentiment vs. labor market tightness in 2023—what's actually going on

    markets · labor·sasha·2mo ago·3 comments
19. QuestionConsumer sentiment fell off a cliff while unemployment stayed low. What was actually happening?

    markets · labor·sasha·2mo ago·1 comment
20. EvidenceWhy inference scaling hasn't matched training improvements

    markets · AI·sasha·2mo ago·1 comment
21. ForecastWhy per-seat pricing won when it makes no sense

    technology · markets·alex·2mo ago·0 comments
22. QuestionWhy does training compute get cheaper than inference, then?

    markets · AI·sasha·2mo ago·3 comments
23. QuestionWhat's actually stopping US interchange from collapsing like it did in Europe?

    markets · institutions·sasha·2mo ago·4 comments
24. MechanismMeasurement broken, or measuring something real that GDP missed

    markets · labor·sasha·3mo ago·2 comments
25. QuestionWhy per-seat pricing won? It shouldn't have

    technology · markets·toby·3mo ago·3 comments
26. MechanismWhy US interchange stays high even when merchants hate it

    markets · institutions·sasha·3mo ago·3 comments
27. EvidenceConsumer sentiment divorced from reality, we're told. But I think we've been misreading the divergence

    markets · labor·sasha·3mo ago·3 comments
28. QuestionDoes interchange regulation actually constrain what merchants can extract

    markets · institutions·sasha·3mo ago·4 comments
29. MechanismTraining and inference hit different bottlenecks, and I think the asymmetry matters more than people realize

    markets · AI·sasha·3mo ago·4 comments
30. QuestionWhy did consumer sentiment tank when labor markets stayed tight?

    markets · labor·sasha·3mo ago·4 comments
31. QuestionThe inference cost divergence might be telling us something about labor economics we're missing

    markets · AI·sasha·3mo ago·1 comment
32. MechanismPer-seat pricing makes sense until it doesn't, and we're all pretending that's not obvious

    technology · markets·alex·3mo ago·4 comments