The U.S. won World War II in large part because of its ability to out-manufacture its enemies. Today China is the world's manufacturing powerhouse.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The year began with Federal Reserve officials projecting interest-rate cuts this year. Surprisingly stubborn inflation and a surprisingly strong labor market have put rate cuts on hold.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Tobacco and alcohol can't be purchased with food stamps. Sodas can. A Congressman who's a physician wants to change this.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Judging from the headlines, you might think the U.S. is souring on foreign investment. The statistics tell a different story. But there are special cases.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Big international and domestic uncertainties face Japan, which despite being overshadowed by China, Mexico and Canada remains a big market for U.S. agricultural exports.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
More employees are being required to spend at least part of their time in the office, but a lot of people still work remotely full time. That's good for rural America.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Book banning is booming these days. A neighborhood book group in Vancouver, Washington, is reading some suppressed titles and weighing the pros and cons.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
In response to political polarization, bridging groups have sprung up. They aren't trying to get everyone to agree with each other. They're focused on ending the tendency to dehumanize ideological opponents.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
At the climate summit in Dubai, an attempt was made to write farmers out of existence.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel is provoking controversy, stoking memories of the angst Americans felt about Japanese investments 35 years ago.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
As pollsters wrestle with declining responsiveness, data quality suffers.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Federal Reserve policymakers are now projecting three interest rate cuts next year and the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note has declined dramatically in recent weeks.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Italy's farmers lobbied hard for a law banning meat grown in laboratory bioreactors from stem cells. In November, Italy enacted the law.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The seven-decade conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is a good example of what happens when people refuse to accept that their maximalist goals are unachievable.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Liberals and conservatives aren't as far apart on teaching American history as partisan politicians and pundits would have us believe.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
There are economic consequences to China's return to less pragmatic, more Marxist-Leninist policies.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
There's an emerging consensus that the Fed won't be raising interest rates much more. On the other hand, interest rates look likely to remain near current highs for a while.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
In the view of this blog's author, who's leaving Washington, D.C., in favor of Washington state, there's more to the capital than political dysfunction.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The labor market is tight, in part because of the pandemic, but mostly because long-term demographic trends are squeezing the labor pool.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
What the striking auto workers are demanding makes perfect sense from their point of view, but they risk pricing themselves out of their jobs.
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Markets
- Market Matters Blog by DTN Staff
- Technically Speaking by DTN Staff
- Sort & Cull by DTN Staff
- Fundamentally Speaking by Joel Karlin
- Canada Markets by Cliff Jamieson
News
- Production Blog by Pam Smith
- Ethanol Blog by DTN Staff
- Ag Policy Blog by Chris Clayton
- South America Calling by DTN Staff
- An Urban's Rural View by Urban Lehner
- MachineryLink by Dan Miller
- Editors' Notebook by Greg D.Horstmeier