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The latest episode of our Make Business Better livestream

This is a full transcript of the first episode of the Quartz Obsession podcast season two. Here’s a lightly edited transcript if you prefer. 

Puffer jackets have been worn by outdoorsmen, rappers, the military, luxury shoppers, and—eventually—everyone. Today, the market is still heating up.

The latest episode of our Make Business Better livestream

The latest episode of our Make Business Better l ivestream

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In Jan. 2020, Quartz surveyed the global economy’s prospects—from debt to trade wars to a slowdown in China—and ended with a section on “Wildcards,” hard-to-predict factors that might shock the world in the coming year. First on that list was a novel coronavirus currently spreading in Wuhan. That “wildcard” defined the year, so in 2021 we repeated the exercise; thankfully most of the shocks we listed didn’t come to pass but one of them, inflation, again helped define the year’s economic story.

Quartz読者の皆さん、おはようございます。米国の編集部は、クリスマスのお休みのため、今日のDaily Briefは特別な内容でお送りします（英語ニュースの読み上げもお休みです）。

Quartz読者の皆さん、おはようございます。今朝も、クリスマス気分の高まる世界でいま起きていることをお届けします。

Quartz読者の皆さん、おはようございます。本日も世界で今起きていることをお届けします。

Quartz読者の皆さん、おはようございます。金曜日のグローバルニュースをお届けします。

In the early 2000s, GE was the world’s most powerful company, and its CEO Jack Welch was a firm believer in the Six Sigma system for eliminating errors in manufacturing. With GE as its poster child, management consultants spread the gospel of Six Sigma to companies everywhere. Now, as GE’s fortunes diminished, so has interest in Six Sigma. But what made this system so special in the first place, and how much is still useful today?

Quartz読者の皆さん、おはようございます。金曜日のグローバルニュースをお届けします。

Everyone working from home knows just how painful it is to sit in the wrong kind of chair. Over the course of centuries, the modern office chair has emerged as the pinnacle of ergonomic comfort and support. Today, as a growing number of jobs are behind desks and computers, that design is more important than ever.

Quartz読者の皆さん、おはようございます。金曜日のグローバルニュースをお届けします。

After spending decades in relative obscurity, Japanese whisky is finally getting global appreciation for its masterful flavors. Global demand is high, with prices to match. There’s just one problem: There’s no technical definition of Japanese whisky, or formal system to regulate it. Does it matter if not all Japanese whisky is strictly from Japan?

Quartz読者の皆さん、おはようございます。今日20:00〜は『Off Topic』とのウェビナーシリーズ最終回。詳細と参加登録はこちらから！今朝のグローバルニュースをお届けします。

コロナ下において公共施設のロックダウンが広がり、映画館ビジネスは大きく後退することになった。米国では、各映画会社が収益悪化から脱却するため、改革を余儀なくされている。結果、ディズニーやワーナー・ブラザースなどが採ったのが、映画館での公開と同時にオンラインで作品を提供する、いわゆる「ハイブリッド・リリース・モデル」だ。

A group of 17 elements make up a little-known group called rare earth metals. They are notoriously tricky to extract, which is unfortunate since they’re key components in smartphones, batteries, motors, and wind turbines, and essential to a clean-energy future. China has a near monopoly on the mining and processing of rare earth metals, but as demand for them rises, other countries are looking to get into the game.

Quartz Japanでは、テックシーンの最前線をフレッシュに伝えるメディア「Off Topic」を運営する宮武徹郎さんと、Quartz Japanの連載「Next Startup」ナビゲーターの久保田雅也さん（WiLパートナー）を招き、これまで下記3回のウェビナーを実施してきました。

Quartz読者の皆さん、おはようございます。金曜日のグローバルニュースをお届けします。

サプライチェーンの問題を解決するため、コンテナ船に運送を頼ってきた企業の多くが「ばら積み船」（小麦などの貨物を箱詰めせずに船倉に積みこむ船）へと回帰しています。そして、それによって、バルクバッグの需要が急増しています。

Kudzu, an ornamental vine from Japan, first appeared on US soil in 1876. More than a century later, the plant has proliferated so uncontrollably that it threatens to choke out native plants in the American South. As the world looks for creative solutions to confront climate change, are we fated to keep repeating our same mistakes?