Category: ZG

From the ET Forum … They made a deal! IATSE was able to reach an agreement with studios and networks just 24 hours before the…

From the ET Forum … If you hadn’t heard about the potential IATSE strike allow me to catch you up to speed. IATSE is the…

From the ET Forum … The Activist is an upcoming reality show that really shouldn’t have made it past the “there are no bad ideas”…

From the ET Forum … Yesterday, the 20th anniversary of 9/11, I read and heard several mainstream references to “the Widening Gyre”. It makes sense…

A video made the rounds on various social media platforms last night and this morning. By now you have probably seen it. A young man…

The ability to influence our behaviors as information consumers isn't confined to whether we are explicitly being told how to think about something. N…

From the ET Forum … An Australian Pack member living abroad published what I think is an outstanding review of the depths to which Australia’s…

From the ET Forum … If Barbara Tuchman were alive she would be adding another chapter to her classic The March of Folly. I am fascinated…

From the ET Forum … With the jobs report today showing 4% year-over-year wage inflation and 0.4% month-over-month wage inflation, it seems like a good…

From the ET Forum … So that’s where we are in our local real estate market – low demand, low supply, high price expectations – and my…

Epsilon Theory may have gotten its formal start in 2013, but the soft launch took place in 1991. That’s when my partner Ben finished his…

The politicization of inflation into a partisan “There Is No Inflation!” TM narrative by the nudgers and mandarins on the left is really depressing. The…

We make it no secret that our research program here is all about using natural language processing to identify and measure narratives in the world.…

The average American news consumer is exposed to far more headline text on news websites, social media apps and content aggregation sites than they are…

I saw this work of art on Twitter today, referring to Dropbox management using stock buybacks to sterilize their outrageous stock-based comp, and it made…

In Epsilon Theory-speak, we use “Yay, Good-Thing!” as shorthand for a narrative that takes a linguistic construction that we all agree is a Good Thing…

It wasn’t enough for ProPublica to do actual news reporting by publishing these tax records. The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How…

Yesterday, one of Softbank’s largest portfolio companies – Katerra – filed for bankruptcy. Katerra was at the heart of the relationship between Softbank and Greensill,…

The Deadly Theatre of corporate signaling on Pride Month continues to run rampant, with feel-good rebranding pop-ups in all the geographies where this is a…

P&C insurer Lemonade (LMND) went public last year and now has a $5 billion market cap. They’re not just a sleepy insurance company, of course.…