Trump has cast the H-2A program as a quick help for farmers. At the same time, the program has been suspended during the government shutdown, which could cause production problems.
Read more...Uncertainty is pushing investors to consider commodities but playing them is not as easy as you think!
Read more...Journalist Michael Grunwald digs into uncomfortable truths about food and agriculture in his new book, ‘We Are Eating the Earth.’
Read more...Control over Venezuela and Iran’s oil can revive the petrodollar. The U.S. pushes regime change to dictate oil currency and maintain hegemony.
Read more...An analyst in Caracas tries to make sense of Trump’s aggression against Venezuela.
Read more...Beleagured US automakers, who remain important employers, face new tsuris in tariff costs and scarcity of key minerals.
Read more...Trump is likely to win his retaliatory tariff battle at the Supreme Court and even if not, he’s too fond of this bludgeon to give it up.
Read more...James Galbraith argues that economics can’t keep ignoring that energy and resources for production are no longer abundant and easy to access
Read more...Useful data on and discussion of China’s dominance of inputs and technologies essential to the West.
Read more...A minerals-for-security deal among the DRC, Rwanda and the US is as bad as the Ukraine “raw earths” security commitments.
Read more...In her first six months, Donald Trump’s second agriculture secretary has altered the course of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She says prosperity is ‘just around the corner.’ But staffing cuts and restricted research could have long-lasting impacts.
Read more...A form of class warfare hits shale players Too few young workers like the industry and its long-term career prospects.
Read more...More on US and European car-makers’ vulnerability to China’s new rare earths licensing regime.
Read more...The first US trade “deal”, with the UK, looks as ugly as one might have expected.
Read more...The federal government has a single contractor to assist with killing infected flocks, leading to delays and the use of controversial culling methods.
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