Tuesday's Assorted Links

lumber futures, redhead discounts, pink sauce, hard seltzer, cheap beer

Hi y’all! Here are five stories from the past week that I think you would enjoy:

1. A new futures contract could ease the volatility of the lumber market [Business Insider]

2. Britain’s redheads offered free movie tickets to dodge extreme heat [Washington Post]

3. Will negative reviews of Pink Sauce change the demand for the social media sauce? [Morning Brew]

4. The hard seltzer trend is over as light beer comes back in style [Wall Street Journal]

5. Cheaper beer and cigarettes are more popular now that inflation is really hitting shoppers [Wall Street Journal]

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Last week, The New Yorker put out an article on how inflation was impacting a small BBQ restaurant in the Texas Hill Country. It was filled with great economics examples, so I wrote about it for yesterday’s post:

Meat Prices Are Hitting BBQ Joints Hard

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Week 29 is over and I’m still at 28 books for the year. I’ve now fallen back behind being on track for one per week, but I made some progress last week despite the move. I started a new book that was released last month called Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks. The book is a collection of different true-crime stories that the author has written about during his career. I’m attempting to read one story every day in addition to the other books I’m reading. I imagine I’ll have updates for you next week!