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The COVID-19 pandemic is unraveling the economy nationally and globally as most of the world moves toward a lockdown that entails the...

Anyone recall the uncertainty of the impact of tariffs on US trade? Now that we are in the coronavirus environment, uncertainty has...

Projecting container volume for the next year has become even more challenging with the outbreak of the coronavirus in China and its...

According to the Federal Reserve, the Industrial Production Index has been on a slight decline since January 2018 with only a couple of...

Real gross domestic product in the United States increased 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2019, according to the federal Bureau of...

It turns out trade wars are not so easy to win. The Trump administration has had no real success with China, Canada and Mexico, and is in no

We have previously highlighted the difficulty of running economic forecasting models that cannot absorb the wild deviations caused by geo-po

There are far too many surprises in container shipping. The last quarter of 2018 was huge. Pre-tariff inventory buildup has stressed carrier

We have entered 2019 with some good economic indicators: jobs, wages, gross domestic product and retail sales all saw strong growth during 2

The reality of the Trump administration’s concerted attack on trade and its linkage of trade to the U.S. deficit is finally beginning to...