Crosstalk
When one industry's problem becomes everyone's

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Crosstalk: talk that carries between groups that do not usually share it. This site reads 84 trade publications across 14 sectors every few hours and shows which phrases are appearing in more than one sector’s coverage — a materials shortage becoming an automotive one, a grid constraint becoming a property one. Every figure is a count of articles you can open and check. It describes what has already been written and forecasts nothing.
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    Pairings that changed this fortnight

    A companion is a phrase that appears in the same articles as the one it sits under, far more often than chance would put them there. It says what a topic is being discussed alongside right now. First appearances are pairings not seen in the fortnight before; the rest were already there and are being used more.

    New vocabulary seen
    Used more than expected, in more than one country
    Top phrases
    rising new here steady falling darker edge = in more sectors

    Color is how usage moved over the last 14 days compared with the 14 days before — not a judgment about whether that is good, and not a forecast. Hover a tile for its name; click to open it.

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    Sectors using it
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    Newest sector
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    Articles, 14 days
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    Published in
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    Publishers
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    carrying the phrase
    When each sector was first recorded using it

    Dates are the first appearance in this collection, not in the sector. Reading began recently, so a phrase already in use before then shows its earliest recorded day rather than its first. A sector whose own coverage started at the same time is marked.

    first followed joined in the last month band height = share of recent articles
    What it's discussed with now
      Used more than expected, by country
        Companies named alongside it
          Recent coverage
            Article mentions by sector, week by week

            Band height is how many of this phrase's articles came from each sector that week. Bands stack, so the outline is total coverage and the slices are who was writing it. A phrase changing hands looks like one band thinning while another swells — sequence, not cause: nobody knows whether one sector took the phrase from another or both responded to the same thing.

            Mentioned in company SEC filings · since 2016

            Ten years of the same question the spread map asks over ten weeks, from company disclosures rather than press coverage. Sector labels are the SEC's own. Quarterly and formal, so it lags events — a company writes about a constraint after the trade press has covered it. The denominator is estimated from several near-universal phrases rather than counted exactly, so read the shape and the crossovers rather than the exact percentages.