For the moment, Maryland officials are focused on crisis management.
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Posted inTAP
The Ever-Present Threat of Supply Shocks
Today on TAP: The Francis Scott Key Bridge tragedy in Baltimore is a reminder that sudden changes to how we move goods around the world can happen anytime.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Climate Time Bomb in the Atmosphere
Cleaning up air pollution might increase global temperature by as much as an entire degree Celsius.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Two Percent Obsession
In the face of mounting evidence that inflation is easing, the Fed clings to a perverse monetary policy. What will its meeting this week produce?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Inflation, Supply Chain Woes, and Elaine Chao’s Culpability
Democrats in general and Mayor Pete in particular should have highlighted the disastrous hands-off approach of Trump’s transportation secretary.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Can Ocean Shipping Go Green?
Everyone agrees that ocean shipping must decarbonize. The question is how, and how fast.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Real Inflation Reduction Acts
The Biden administration’s actions in a variety of markets are doing the heavy lifting on lowering costs.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Shipping Carriers Are Making a Killing on Food Aid
An old rule to protect U.S. carriers drives up the cost of food aid, and fails to help the domestic ship industry.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Is It Racist to Criticize China?
Those who attack Tim Ryan’s ad challenging China’s predatory trade practices as ‘anti-Asian’ are playing a dangerous game.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Supply Chains Are Easing. Or They’re Not.
Our system is so unstable that we could be seeing endless waves of supply dysfunction, with dangerous impacts on the economy.