Could secondhand shopping ever beat out fast fashion?
Marketplace All-in-One
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🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Fans have flocked to fast fashion retailers for their one-and-done summer tour outfits, but there’s a growing eco-friendly movement to shop secondhand. Plus, climate change drives up construction costs, and the launch of our new “Skin in the Game” podcast following the multi-billion-dollar video game industry.
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| 0:00.0 | The big jobs report is due shortly, plus does the outfit you buy to see Taylor Swift |
| 0:06.2 | have to be a one-shot deal? |
| 0:08.4 | I'm David Bruncacho and about an hour and a half, data about the economy that's about |
| 0:13.5 | as fresh as it comes gets released. |
| 0:15.8 | It's data that will guide jobs, searches, interest rates, and many other money decisions. |
| 0:20.1 | The typical bet by forecasters is that 170,000 more people were on payrolls in the month |
| 0:26.1 | just ended. |
| 0:27.1 | The lowest rate of job creation this year will also get the household survey of who's |
| 0:31.4 | got a job and who's looking to yield the unemployment rate. |
| 0:35.3 | Later today, we'll learn how much money was spent building housing in America in July. |
| 0:40.7 | Higher interest rates make construction loans more expensive. |
| 0:43.9 | Also making construction more expensive, climate change, marketplaces just in ho has that. |
| 0:49.1 | In states where natural disasters are becoming more common, builders are demanding more climate |
| 0:53.2 | resistant building materials like steel reinforced walls and wind resistant glass. |
| 0:58.4 | And so then that makes it costlier if there's a spike in demand coming from all home |
| 1:02.0 | builders in that area. |
| 1:03.4 | That's Paranethasastry, a finance professor at Columbia Business School. |
| 1:07.3 | As natural disasters pick up, Sastry says developers face additional regulatory hurdles, too, |
| 1:12.2 | if they want to say qualify for the National Flood Insurance Program. |
| 1:15.8 | You know, elevation requirements, there may be restrictions on basement construction. |
| 1:21.3 | Many insurance companies have been raising home insurance premiums in disaster prone areas. |
| 1:25.9 | Some insurers have stopped offering home insurance in certain states. |
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