After the long weekend Tuesday morning news drop
Eleven Un-Magical Secrets I Learned While Working at Disney World From parents leaving their kids with “Mary Poppins” to ladies lusting after Captain Jack Sparrow, the most magical place on Earth is also one of the most colorful places to work. (Bloomberg)
The Unstoppable Appeal of Highway Expansion: U.S. transportation authorities have spent billions widening urban freeways to fight traffic delays. What makes the “iron law of congestion” so hard to defeat? (Citylab)
The fiscal policy elephant in the room: The global macro debate is focussed on monetary policy. Fiscal policy will play a bigger role in the coming 12-18 months. (Value Added)
Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble: The free market has plenty of grandiose ideas about how to fix our broken planet. There’s just one problem: We can’t afford another bust. (Wired)
Fund Managers Start Axing ESG Buzzword as Greenwash Rules Bite Some of Europe’s biggest asset managers are starting to drop a once-ubiquitous ESG label from their company filings amid concern that regulators will no longer tolerate vague descriptions of environmental, social and governance investing. (Bloomberg Green)
Self-driving cars: The 21st-century trolley problem Autonomous tech could lead to deaths at the hands of robots. But is continuing to let humans drive even worse? (Vox)
Collectors Who Caught the Bug Volkswagen’s original Beetle, cute and petite, still thrills aficionados. (New York Times)
The Cheap and Easy Climate Fix That Can Cool the Planet Fast CO2 is only part of the patchwork of warming. Methane locks in far more heat in the short term and has been leaking just as relentlessly. (Bloomberg)
Anti-vaccine chiropractors rising force of misinformation At a time when the surgeon general says misinformation has become an urgent threat to public health, an investigation found a vocal and influential group of chiropractors has been capitalizing on the pandemic by sowing fear and mistrust of vaccines. (AP)
Why so many of us are casual spider-murderers: It’s officially arachnicide season in the Northern Hemisphere. Millions of spiders have appeared in our homes – and they’d better be on their guard. Why do we kill them so casually? (BBC)