Amazon’s Hubris May Spell Trouble

Amazon Economics Ideas and Issues

            Pearl River     A change in the configuration of the supply chain means different things to different countries.  The pandemic lessons and its shortages are often touted as potentially bringing manufacturing and production closer to markets rather than depending as heavily on China and other southeast Asian countries.  Domestic production and Mexico could benefit, if …

Continue Reading

Don’t Go Big, Go Medium?

Economics Ideas and Issues Workers

            New Orleans      Worker mobility is always of interest in the United States, especially when companies are scrambling during the pandemic and post-pandemic labor shortage that is helping fuel worker organizing across the country.  Are workers really making big moves now to expanding job markets, or are we being fed some kind of boosterism …

Continue Reading