March 7, 2018
In a top ten list of roller coaster economics, we can include everything from the cost of a kidney stone to world trade and queueing.
March 5, 2018
As Canadian fisheries enjoy more business because a trade deal lowered the price of lobster exports, Maine's fisherman are suffering from lower sales.
February 27, 2018
More than governments negotiating agreements, free trade is about the variety of strawberries, chickens, pickup trucks and pencils that we can buy.
February 19, 2018
The future of North American lobster exports to the European Union was threatened when 32 "surly" reddish green lobsters were found in Scandinavian waters.
February 6, 2018
Whether looking at the height of Mount Everest or at the rules of origin that will be renegotiated during the NAFTA talks, we have a statistical accuracy problem.
December 5, 2017
October 20, 2017
October 13, 2017
Enabling the newest massive container ships to travel to the East Coast, the Panama Canal expansion changed the world's transportation infrastructure.
September 17, 2017
Used in ice cream, India's guar gum is also so necessary for fracking that the rise of oil prices created a guar bean bubble.
August 18, 2017
A smile curve is a handy way to see that the global supply chain for technology is much more complicated than a Made-in-China label.
August 11, 2017
Targeting a less literate, poorer population, developing nations' smartphones are different from their "sisters" in industrialized countries.
July 10, 2017
Predictable and surprising, G20 facts about the group's countries and last week's meetings show how we remain interconnected.