Bloomberg • 10th January 2022

Fur Industry Hopes Certification Will Help It Shed Its Inhumane Image

The $25 billion fur industry is seeking redemption, arguing that in the era of sustainability and careful consumption, fur has its rightful place. It's touting a new certification program. Luxury brands are skeptical

Bloomberg • 20th December 2021

Inflation Crashes the Holidays, Shrinking Menus and Spoiling Traditions

In the Romanian countryside, the Orthodox celebration of Saint Ignatius on Dec. 20 has followed a traditional script for centuries: Buy a pig from a trusted farmer, slit its throat, burn the skin, and clean the carcass with help from friends and family at the break of dawn. At least, that used to be the custom. This year, more families will just snag some supermarket sausages on their way home from work and call it a day.

Bloomberg • 1st December 2021

European Firms Skirt Vaccine Mandates as U.S. Pushes Ahead

U.S. companies, from United Airlines Holdings Inc. to Citigroup Inc., are requiring employees to get vaccinated or risk losing their jobs. The situation looks very different in Europe, even as Covid-19 cases surge anew and governments take an increasingly tough line.

Bloomberg • 23rd November 2021

U.K. Lets Thousands Apply to Remain Long After Brexit Cutoff

Tens of thousands of European Union citizens are still applying to remain in the U.K. months after the government’s post-Brexit deadline, a sign that many businesses may be employing people without so-called settled status.

Bloomberg • 8th September 2021

Shipping Storm Hastens Drive to Automate Supply Chains

After beating humans at checkers, chess and Go, computers are now gunning for one of the more complex games yet: supply chains.

Bloomberg • 27th August 2021

Debunking the Hemline Index

The theory from the 1920s says skirt length can be a leading economic indicator, but current fashion trends show much more.

Bloomberg • 8th August 2021

Plant-Based Fish Is Rattling the Multibillion-Dollar Seafood Industry

The plant-based fish market is a drop in the bucket compared with that of faux meat, but it’s growing fast as consumers try to minimize their impact on the oceans.

Bloomberg • 16th July 2021

Europe’s Soggy Wheat Means More Will End Up as Animal Feed

Heavy rains across Europe have hurt grain quality more than the harvest size. Still, rebounding output could aid exports in the key shipper, a contender to steal market share from drought-hit North America and top shipper Russia, where export taxes have complicated trade.

Buletin de Bucuresti • 26th February 2021

One Year of Covid-19 in Lockdown Data and Banana-Bread Flavoured Graphs - RO

The first Covid-19 patient in Romania was discovered on February 26, 2020. Three vaccines, 780.000 cases and maybe as many pandemic-tracking graphs later, I dug through data to tell the story of Romania's first pandemic year. This is 2020 in graphs about unemployment, Google searches for banana bread recipes, pollution, and the the hope of recovery.

Medium • 30th January 2021

In the air tonight: fine particles chocking Europe

Over 400,000 people died prematurely due to fine particle-related causes in Europe in 2018

25th January 2021

Is Romania vaccinating fast enough?

Use this interactive graphic to explore the speed with which Romania gets to herd immunity depending on the herd immunity threshold, the number of weekly vaccinations and the average vaccine efficacy.

10th December 2020

For the Love of Hype - Podcast

A four-episode podcast that sets off to discover the crazy world of sneakers and the rogue economics that governs it. You'll learn to walk the walk and talk the talk like a sneakerhead. In each episode, we’ll reveal a little bit about this world: from the people, to the lingo, to the prices, to how to get the best shoes.

Mondayist • 12th September 2019

Still making sense of the Brexit negotiations? Look no further than Chicken

Explaining the game theory behind Boris Johnson's Brexit negotiations with the EU.

Medium • 28th November 2020

In Paris, Lockdown Turns Independent Booksellers Into Almost-Warehouse Workers

Digital platforms are a lifeline to Parisian bookstores during lockdown. They’re also changing what it means to be a bookseller.

Medium • 24th November 2020

In Paris’ 14th Arrondissement, Social Enterprises Face Crash Test After Collective Closes

Can business models focused on solidarity and craftsmanship pay for rent in Paris?

Medium • 30th September 2020

Between a rock and a hard place: remote learning in rural Romania

When schools closed during lockdown, 40% of Romanian students from rural areas could not attend online classes lacking an internet connection and technological devices. As Romania reopened its classrooms on September 14th another issue emerged. Turns out telling children to wash their hands to prevent covid-19 infection is difficult when there is no running water.

Flourish • 20th May 2020

Switching trade tracks: Romania started trading more with China with than the EU at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic

Mondayist • 30th November 2019

In Paris, the generation gap is a thin wall

In Paris a 85-year old is sharing crêpes, life stories and his apartment with two young students. This housing arrangement, called “colocation intergénérationelle”, is on the rise in France.

Medium • 26th April 2020

24 hours on lockdown in three worlds: A visual archive

Coronavirus has changed everything, but the 24 hours in a day. We created an Instagram page to show how three young people around the world lived them alone, together.

Medium • 22nd April 2020

A star is born: A Romanian sign-language interpreter becomes the hero of the coronavirus pandemic

When an interior minister goes on live TV to order a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus outbreak, you would expect the interior minister to be the star of the show. Yet when that happened in Romania on March 21st, many of the six million watching found themselves focusing on a dark-haired young man by his side, gesturing as if trying to escape the TV screen. That young man was Romanian sign-language interpreter Bogdan Anicescu.