BOMBAY BEACH, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 26, 2019: A woman walks along the shore of the Salton Sea in … [+] Southern California. The shallow saline lake was formed accidentally in 1905 followin...
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Two Key Hard Rock Mining Events Show Progress On Biden Energy Transition Plans
Looking East over the Rhyolite Ridge South Basin in west central Nevada. ioneer One of the biggest questions surrounding the future of the energy transition as it relates to the United States and Bide...
More Than One Million May Die In China From Covid Through 2023 – Report
Pedestrians wearing face shields in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. China’s economic … [+] activity worsened in November before the government abruptly dropped its Covid Zero p...
China’s Zero-Covid Exit And The Potential For 2023 Supply Chain Disruptions
Shuttle buses have been arranged by local authorities to facilitate the return trips of Foxconn … [+] factory workers to their hometowns after COVID-19 infections were reported in the city Zheng...
Ag Retailers Meet During A Time Of Extraordinary Change
The theme of the 2022 Agricultural Retailers Association meeting in San Diego Photo by author The Agricultural Retailers Association held its annual meeting in San Diego from November 29 to December 1...
Labor Arbitrage, Fruit And Vegetable Imports, And Supply Chain Resiliency
Migrant Workers Harvesting California Strawberries (Photo by David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported the latest trade data on Friday, a...
With Candy Prices Up 13%, Trick-Or-Treaters Get An Economics Lesson
Weighing a Snickers bar in my office Willy Shih We will pay 13.1% more this year for Halloween candy than last year, the biggest recorded jump in candy prices. Trick-or-treaters will also likely notic...
The Long-Sought Step-Change In Renewable Energy Battery Tech May Have Arrived
This image is part of a collection of all elements getty “No, policymakers are not aware. But quite frankly, that’s my job. My job is to educate the policymakers because I’m the CEO of the...
Inflation, Supply Chains And Globalization In 2022 And 2023
The Yangshan Port in Shanghai, China (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Did globalization bring down inflation in the 1990s and 2000s, and will de-globalizatio...
The Multiplier Effect: How Supplier Diversity Pays
Governments and large corporations have focused for decades on optimizing their supply chains, not only for profitability but stability and sustainability. With a steady decline in the number of U.S. ...
China Stocks Drop In U.S. Ahead Of Fed Action On Inflation; Alibaba, BiliBili Plunge 10%
It was a rough day for U.S. investors in China stocks. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images) Getty Images Shares in many of China’s best-known companies plunged on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange ...
How Your Business Should Respond To Inflation
The phrase “there’s no playbook for this” was used ad nauseum the past couple of years, as businesses around the world faced shutdowns and supply chain shocks the likes of which have no precedent. Now...
China Covid-19 Outbreak Disrupting Supply Chains, Manufacturing, Investment, Staffing — AmCham Survey
Near deserted streets in the Puxi area of Shanghai, China, on Saturday, April 2, 2022. Shanghai’s 25 … [+] million residents are almost all under some form of lockdown as the financial hub scram...
Amtrak’s Expansion To The Hinterlands Will Be Costly To The Government & The Economy
As I marched in my cap and gown to receive my college diploma 35 years ago I asked my best friend, standing next to me, to summarize what we had been taught the previous four years in three words or l...
The Titanium Supply Chain For The Aerospace Industry Goes Through Russia
Essential parts of the main landing gear of the Boeing 777 family come from VSMPO-AVISMA in Russia dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images The terrible war in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions placed on ...
What Bathtubs Can Teach Us About Supply Chain Bottlenecks
What bathtubs can teach us about supply chain bottlenecks getty The latest news that the Port of Charleston, South Carolina has a queue of 31 ships waiting to unload highlights a bottleneck that has t...
Why WAZP’s On-Demand Manufacturing Solutions Win Large Customers Like IKEA
3d printing plays a key role in WAZP’s on-demand manufacturing getty As companies scramble to improve the resilience of their supply chains, many are resorting to boosting the size of their inve...