Cleaning up air pollution might increase global temperature by as much as an entire degree Celsius.
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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.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rollups: A Chinese Corner in Chassis and Containers
Effectively all standard containers used in global shipping are made by Chinese state-owned enterprises. The dangers of that circumstance revealed themselves during the pandemic.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tug Life
From Canada to Panama, tugboat workers are being squeezed as shipping companies earn record profits.