Friday morning news drop
How the Fed ended the last great American inflation — and how much it hurt: Forty years ago, the Fed pushed the economy into a recession to stop inflation. Here’s how it played out. (Vox)
Five charts explaining why inflation is at a 40-year high The bumpy economic recovery has had policymakers, economists and Americans households grappling with greater price hikes for gas, groceries, cars, rent and other essentials. (Washington Post)
Sell Slowly: If you compare withdrawal strategies over various time periods, you will see that Quarterly Withdrawals beat Beginning of Year Withdrawals anywhere from 62% to 100% of the time. (Of Dollars And Data)
The Way We Work Has Changed. So Should Offices: The office of the future has the capacity to accelerate change and to support a totally new kind of work and workforce. (Citylab)
US Crosses the Electric-Car Tipping Point for Mass Adoption Once 5% of new-car sales go fully electric, everything changes — according to a Bloomberg analysis of the 19 countries that have made the EV pivot. (Green)
Where Have People Gone All-Electric? Not the Places You’d Expect Homes free of fossil fuels are most common in Southern red states; natural gas dependence is greatest in big blue states. (Bloomberg)
A Russian journalist asked his former classmates about the Ukraine war. The answers were disturbing. Stanislav Kucher was a journalist and TV host in Russia before immigrating to the U.S. The war in Ukraine has him fighting with his old friends back home. (Grid)
Over Truth Also Has a Red State, Blue State Divide Several states run by Democrats are pushing for stiffer rules on the spread of false information, while Republican-run states are pushing for fewer rules. (New York Times)
Here's the Surprising Backstory of the Downfall of Roe v. Wade Erin Hawley didn’t know that she would help make history when she took a job in February with the conservative legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom. Two months later, the former law professor was on a plane to Mississippi to serve as co-counsel with the state’s attorney general, Lynn Fitch, and its solicitor general, Scott Stewart, to win the most momentous Supreme Court case in half a century – the overturning of Roe v. Wade. (Real Clear Investigations)
‘Disaster Land Grabs’ Worldwide and in British Columbia Amidst a crushing pandemic, a pipeline pushed through unceded territory. Experts say this fits a global pattern of power plays. A special report. (Tyee)