Technology Could Change Trend of Global Trade
Two of the biggest forces influencing global economic activity over the past three decades — globalization and automation — have had polar-opposite effects on workers in emerging markets. The former pushed multinationals to move production to countries with cheaper labor costs than advanced economies, while the latter effectively substitutes capital for labor in the production process. In a note to clients, analysts at the Goldman...
Power Lunch: Matthew Slaughter, new dean of the Tuck School of Business
Over a dinner of grilled shrimp salad and a beer, the new dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth discusses taking a fresh look at his institution’s mission and goals, and how the Upper Valley’s economic health is increasingly linked to trade with the fast-growing countries of Asia. Matt Slaughter, dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, is one busy executive, with a schedule that changes as rapidly as the Wall...
Power Lunch: Matthew Slaughter, new dean of the Tuck School of Business
Over a dinner of grilled shrimp salad and a beer, the new dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth discusses taking a fresh look at his institution’s mission and goals, and how the Upper Valley’s economic health is increasingly linked to trade with the fast-growing countries of Asia. Matt Slaughter, dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, is one busy executive, with a schedule that changes as rapidly as the Wall...
U.S. Factories Still Haven’t Recovered
Washington — It took less than a year for America’s factory output to rebound from the 1991 recession. It took three and a half years to bounce back from the 2001 recession. Now, six years clear of the Great Recession, manufacturing output still hasn’t returned to the pre-crisis levels it reached in 2007, according to revised economic data from the Federal Reserve. The downward revisions highlight the persistent weakness in a sector...
Trade Groups, Farmers Spar Over Beef Ban
Washington — Bob Wilts was 10 years old when the Big Lake, Minn., farm where he grew up got its first beef cow. Fast forward 45 years to today, and Wilts still lives in Big Lake, about 35 miles northwest of Minneapolis. He still raises cattle. Wilts and his wife, Judy, manage about 30 steers that they sell to individual families and stockyards annually. But Wilts and other ranchers worry about something that they say could threaten...
