Kai Risdahl

Right now, I don't see that we have a world government system

that is capable of making a decision on behalf of everybody who lives on the planet.

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The market for commercial office space continued its slow but steady comeback the first three months of this year.

Companies leased more space than they let go of for the third quarter in a row.

So says a new report from the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.

Marketplace's Samantha Fields has that one.

Mark Salvatelli at the Commercial Real Estate Development Association says fancy office buildings with a lot of amenities are leasing exceptionally well these days.

We have kind of the top tier that is performing very well, and then we have a bottom tier that's performing much worse.

A K-shaped office market to go with our K-shaped economy.

What is new in recent months is that more of those older, less desirable office buildings are getting knocked down or converted into apartments or hotels.

So is the demand for fancy new offices.

For all the headlines about return to office mandates, Nick Bloom at Stanford University says how we work has shifted.

And he says with so many people now used to working from home, some are all of the time, it's a harder sell to drag them back into a drab windowless office.

Coming up... Postcards, mugs, koozies, glasses.

Everything you could ever need, right?

First, though, let's do the numbers.

Dow Industrials added a mere 24 points today.

We'll call that flat.