Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from disappearing jobs to a rare earth primer.
Continuing with our April e-links, I recommend the one podcast that I enjoyed this week because it conveyed some supermarket economics.
By focusing on the globe's 17 rare earth elements, we can see what they are, where to find them, and how to get them.
Looking back at Brazil and cotton, and the EU and bananas, we can see how the WTO helps us fight normal trade wars.
To move Apple's massive supply chain to the United States, it would have to re-coordinate more than 600 component producers.
Animal economics is about a slew of tradeoffs when we tryi to reduce our carbon imprint with less meat consumption.
Looking at the steady slide in the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs, we see structural change with several causes.
With new trade incentives, China's increased demand for dairy product subsidies from its new child policy won't support U.S. firms.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from beavers and inflation to home runs.








