Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL and Washington, D.C. July 5, 2022—Thinking Outside the Boxe has released the transcripts of the question and answer session from its Independence Day Champagne Summit held in Orlando on July 4, 2022. Participants included correspondents from Bismarck, North Dakota; Prescott Valley, Arizona; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and Sheffield, Jamaica.
Topics included the mix of supply shocks, excess demand, and price-setting behavior in the inflation surge, energy security after the disruption of Russian gas, European defense spending, the labor-market cost of restoring price stability, buy-now-pay-later lending, critical minerals, the Supreme Court’s abortion decision, rules on personal data used for targeting, fiduciary duty and political activism by asset managers, and the rise in urban retail theft.
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