This is the second column in my “New Regular” series (“normal” checked out in February). The focus is on how familiar, pre-pandemic customer relationships are likely to morph into less familiar ...

Current data, alongside several longstanding global shifts, reveal that the global economy is transitioning. The global economy may be shifting from a low inflationary paradigm driven by ...

Now that self-directed investors can trade for free and buy fractional shares, they are no longer dependent on mutual fund managers or ETF providers to construct portfolios for them. Figure 1 shows ...

Jeremy Grantham put out a great quarterly letter about the scarcity of commodities and the marked rise of commodity prices, calling this “the mother of all paradigm shifts”. Two interesting points in ...

A dramatic change in methodology or practice. It often refers to a major change in thinking and planning, which ultimately changes the way projects are implemented. For example, accessing applications ...

Technology advances in the energy and high technology sectors are providing examples of how waste can be captured and re-used in an economical manner. A paradigm, by definition, stays in place for a ...

At some time or another, many perhaps all disciplines have experienced a sea change in thought, when one or more scholars have pushed beyond the limits of the fields traditional approaches, ...

In his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, physicist and science historian Thomas Kuhn argued that a series of small, successful challenges to a conventional wisdom eventually lead to a ...

I don’t do many evening events anymore, but last week I attended a dinner where the host put an interesting question: Is the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) a one-off event or does it represent a ...