This week’s economic news summary included unexpected insight from credit scores, the natural resource curse, and what the bacon cheeseburger can tell us.
Our economic news summary includes chicken sandwiches, reefers and the supply chain, the internet and the information infrastructure and the federal budget.
The Florida citrus industry and especially the grapefruit market have demand and supply problems that incentivize structural adjustment with new crops.
Our economic news summary includes labor regulation and Uber, the GDP and streets, gasoline price fluctuation, food and inequality and markets and syrup.
Because the prices in Canada’s maple syrup market are controlled by its strategic reserve, the market resembles a cartel that distorts supply and demand.
Because of the price incentives that the market creates for the African ivory trade supply chain, elephant tusks move from the bush to the coast and beyond.
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