April 26, 2021· 60 min

Why the Price of Lumber Has Soared Day After Day After Day

Orality
Model
50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,807 words)
M:93%
HostJoe Weisenthal(841 words)
M:28%
GuestStinson Dean(6,927 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic32%
literally, completely, definitely
Engagement62%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
like (127x), lumber (126x), they (122x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, Tracy, I'm guessing there ..., So I I've seen a lot of storie...
Sound Patterns47%
48 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
at the end of the day, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging7%
maybe, probably, could
Passive Voice4%
is even, was produced, are often
Abstract Nouns17%
investment, recommendation, construction
Subordination5%
because, until, since
Sentence Length35%
Avg: 13.8 words/sentence
Word Complexity45%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers3%
according to
Impersonal Style38%
637 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style82%
literally, completely, definitely

Description

It's not often that lumber becomes a national obsession. But this year it has. Thanks to a combination of factors, including diminished sawmill capacity, a renovation boom, and then a homebuilding boom, the price of finished wood has soared to never-before-seen heights. On this episode, we speak with Stinson Dean, a lumber trader at Deacon Trading, to explain why the market has gone so wild, and how the market is structured. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.