Like 19th century English coal, more efficient and cheap LED lights can mean people and businesses use it more because of the lower opportunity cost.
Whether looking at the supply chain for a pencil or an iPhone 6, we see globalization because price system incentives create cooperation.
We need to raise the low U.S. savings rate with new incentives like a lottery on savings deposits because households and business investment need savings.
Led by Chinese economic growth and other emerging markets, the center of economic gravity is moving eastward from the developed world to Asia.
In refrigerators in developing nations, we can see the impact of affluence on their diet and on supply and demand that will change worldwide food prices.
The spread of refrigeration in China has positive and negative externalities that relate to household diets, greenhouse gases and transport and home waste.
With Argentina again defaulting on her sovereign debt, she is violating the sanctity of contracts and lessened her borrowing ability at home and globally.
The U.S. has had an economic recovery from the Great Recession with sluggish GDP growth, a worrisome output gap and slowly diminishing unemployment.












