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A Quick One on Externalities of Foreign Trade

…applied to many livestock diseases[.] To what I trust is no one’s great surprise, the model predicts larger losses than just the animals slaughtered: Model results show large trade-related losses…

Train Drain

…diminished capacity and crew shortages, railroads have frequently imposed embargoes—refusals to accept new traffic—causing freight to stack up in warehouses and in railcars that remain stranded in yards and sidings…

…Is it really worth it? And should we not be calculating into a cost-benefit analysis the destructive capacity of capital when it meets nature, and then trying to prevent that…