September 27, 2024· 25 min

Lots More on Potentially Massive East Coast Port Strikes

Craig Fuller

Orality

Model

63%

Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(459 words)

M:28%

HostTracy Alloway(540 words)

M:28%

GuestCraig Fuller(3,555 words)

M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic28%

literally, completely, very

Engagement65%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, well

Repetition100%

know (39x), think (37x), about (36x)

Parallelism74%

So I I don't know My kids eat ..., So another port issue...., And people are like, I don't r...

Sound Patterns55%

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

Formulaic Phrases11%

at the end of the day, i mean, if you will

Literate Indicators

Hedging14%

may, might, could

Passive Voice6%

are called, is untalked, be moved

Abstract Nouns28%

investment, recommendation, business

Subordination9%

because, until, since

Sentence Length35%

Avg: 13.8 words/sentence

Word Complexity48%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style35%

366 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style100%

literally, completely, apply

Description

Look out. Supply chains are back in the news. As soon as next week, workers at all of the ports on the US East Coast could go on strike, crippling trade across a range of industrial and agricultural parts of the economy. So what's at stake? What do the workers want? Is there any prospect of the US government heading it off? On this episode, we speak with Craig Fuller, the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, about what the labor dispute is all about and how it could possibly hammer the economy in the weeks leading up to the presidential election. Read More: Port Employers Ask NLRB to Force Dockworkers to Bargaining Table Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox each week, plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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