Combine Maine's lobster glut with China's lobster demand and you come close to solving the mystery of why lobster prices have not sunk.
As our first Throwback Thursday, we look at the present and the past with the 2,000 barrel beer tanks that traveled on the Erie Canal.
A source of jobs and economic growth, the leading manufacturer of American made cars is not a U.S. firm because of globalization.
Covering 500 or so miles, a made-in-America t-shirt supply chain can be very different from a globally sourced t-shirt that travels more than 15,000 miles.
Deciding whether Snuggies is a blanket or a pullover garment is about more than a name. The outcome decided the protective tariff it would owe.
Like a contentious divorce, Brexit negotiations take us back to an EU exit precedent and forward to untangling countless agreements and regulations.
For another NAFTA example, we can start with the impact of Canadian cranberry production on Nantucket but then continue onward to Wisconsin and beyond.
Because our avocados, onions, tomatoes and peppers could have come from Mexico, NAFTA changes will mean guacamole changes.
When German farmers got a chicken tax to protect them from U.S. poultry imports in the 1960s, the results were unexpected.










