Max Rosenblum

Most see a love story. I see a single-asset event that sent a stock up 26%. This is an accidentally…

Honeycrisp became a blockbuster not because it was easy to grow, but because it offered a texture and…

For most of restaurant history, used cooking oil was a disposal cost, something you paid to have hauled…

For most of the 20th century De Beers sold two things: diamonds, and the belief that they were rare. The…

In 1980 Norway sold Japan 2 tonnes of salmon, and Japanese diners had good reason not to want more. Their…

Every hog sold in America carries a small levy: 35 cents per $100 of sales, paid to the National Pork Board…

Somebody bought futures on unborn monkeys. When China halted exports of lab monkeys in January 2020, the…

Wimbledon banned creators this week. Or that’s thewimbledon announced is that it will not create a creator…

Europe’s hotel market is not short of demand. Yet across Spain, Italy, France and Switzerland, small…

There are statistically way too many Thai restaurants in America, and that is not entirely an accident. Thai…

For a decade, Nike benefited from a market it did not own. Platforms like StockX and GOAT turned limited…

Concrete accounts for 7% to 8% of global carbon emissions, and only 40% of that comes out of the furnace.…

There are more Thai restaurants in America than the size of the Thai-American population would suggest, and…

COMMENT “SMARTER” FOR MY DEEP DIVE Do Broadway musicals make money? Almost never, and the numbers are worse…

Supersonic flights failed because regulation closed most of the map before Concorde carried its first paying…

The weatherman might be the only person whose job is to predict the future, regularly get it wrong, and…

The world has a wood problem, and it is not really about wood. Europe and Asia decided that compressed…

Every forecaster covering the US-Canada trade war reached the same conclusion and reported it as…

Coffee raves are up 478% in a year. $14, 8am, sober, and people are showing up. That number reframed the…

Broadway musical economics are the strangest thing in American entertainment: the 2025-26 season set an…

America’s air travel system is running below minimums. Nearly one in four air-traffic controller positions…

China built the largest aquaculture industry on earth and then went offshore, into vessels the size of…

Imax movies are sold on the promise of a bigger picture, a promise that holds at roughly 50 of the 417…

The question of why we can’t convert office space to apartments is usually framed as a failure of will. It…