…I can safely and for sure tell you that food labeling is approved by the USDA and or the FDA. A small change in a label or packaging such as…

…affect trade deficits. By definition, a country’s trade balance equals national savings minus national investment. Christopher Towe explains how ongoing U.S. trade deficits, shown in the chart above, reflect these…

…Institute. Meanwhile, the remaining 94% of workers with earnings below the cap saw their average real earnings go up just 17% during those years. How raising the tax cap affects…

…By their very existence, since the emergence of life on Earth, carbon-based lifeforms have altered levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Human-Induced Causes Humans have caused the most rapid…

…the atmosphere that is carbon dioxide, but the total amount and how it’s distributed. Ask questions, but don’t forget to listen for answers. how atmospheric carbon dioxide drives global warming…

…dollar and reduce the trade deficit. But is the trade deficit a problem? Some economists argue . . . distortion of U.S. trade results from the dollar’s role as the…

Third Way (h/t TPM), a Democratic pro-trade think tank, has released a new study, “Are Modern Trade Deals Working?” It examines the various “free trade” deals the U.S. has signed…

Stormy wrote in 2008 a narrative for the last few decades on trade…still relevent: Trade means jobs; trade brings money into plants; trade surpluses ripple through the economy, providing not…

…cap. The Commission and the Postal Service argue that section (d)(1) means that the price cap had to be a component of the initial rate system in 2007, but it did not…

Robert Waldmann Has a thought about how to get votes for a cap and trade bill in the Senate without giving a windfall to incumbent polluters. The problem is that…