November 8, 2021· 61 min

Stinson Dean on the Lumber Crash That Followed the Boom

Stinson Dean

Orality

Model

50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(2,378 words)

M:29%

HostTracy Alloway(1,472 words)

M:29%

GuestStinson Dean(6,167 words)

M:93%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic27%

obviously, certainly, huge

Engagement79%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, so

Repetition100%

like (208x), it's (96x), know (95x)

Parallelism100%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, you know, you know, you kn..., Or 2020 and 2021....

Sound Patterns47%

50 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases6%

you know what, i mean, to be honest

Literate Indicators

Hedging7%

could, quite, might

Passive Voice7%

are worried, was even, been scarred

Abstract Nouns18%

investment, journalism, granularity

Subordination5%

because, since, until

Sentence Length39%

Avg: 14.8 words/sentence

Word Complexity44%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style21%

846 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style86%

really, obviously, supply

Description

These days, commodities around the world are on a tear. But earlier this year, there was a lot of fixation on one in particular: lumber. Lumber went absolutely parabolic in the spring before collapsing rapidly. What's interesting is that this collapse was not due to a slowdown in housing per se. Housing is booming. Instead, it was a variety of idiosyncratic factors (including lumber storage availability) that caused the wild move. So, for this episode, we invited back Stinson Dean, the founder and CEO of Deacon Lumber, to explain what happened, and what lessons there are for the rest of the commodities complex. He also offered his view on hiring, and why some companies seem to have an easy time hiring, while others have found it so difficult. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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