Diego Segura

While digging down the Thomas Gold rabbit hole, we found our attention diverted to a puzzling series of events unfolding in the helium market that is as surprising as it is troubling. It is a story of an important and militarily sensitive commodity that almost everybody takes for granted, a decades-old piece of obscure legislation that is slowly... See more

In the battle between physics and platitudes, physics is undefeated.

In the same way that a natural gas shortage in Europe resulted in record prices for coal worldwide, enforcing scarcity of the most desirous sources of protein would result in a significant inflationary pulse across the entire protein complex

caution.

Less familiar to Western analysts is Idemitsu Kosan, but it is a significant player in the Japanese petrochemical sector. It operates four major refineries and three integrated chemical complexes in the country and generated more than $60 billion in revenue in the past twelve months.

the image maker of the future will probably be the person who has the most highly sought-after taste and always gets it right.

On a chilly morning in downtown Los Angeles, a week after my visit, I put on one of the hoodies Playboy gave me. As I was standing in line for a coffee, a young skateboarder complimented it. After thanking him, I couldn’t help but ask, “What does the Playboy bunny stand for, in your opinion?”

He paused for a while.

“Uhh,

I dunno.

Boobs?”

the merger of these two companies speaks to the predicament of American fashion, which is not focused on managing brands so much as it is about managing businesses

Independent brands — even those with significant backing — were boxed out by luxury’s biggest players, whose heft gave them a major edge in distribution and marketing, where they enjoy greater leverage with multi-brand retailers, mall owners, real estate developers, magazines, influencers and other key players in the fashion ecosystem. In 2019,... See more