Weekly Economic News Roundup and banana trade wars
International Trade
How To Fight a Banana War

During the 1990s, fought with banana tariffs, the U.S. engaged in a war with the EU that the U.K. has continued.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and banana trade wars
Trade & Comparative Advantage
An Alarming Banana Story

Threatened by a rapidly spreading fungus, our banana supply will have to change or it will massively shrink.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and banana trade wars
What's Trending
How the EU and the U.S. Fought a Banana Trade War

With tariffs and quotas the weapons, the 1990s banana trade war between the European Union and the U.S. was a classic except for one key difference.

Weekly roundup and Ecuador's Rain Forest Tree Frog
Business
What is the Price of a Rain Forest?

Chevron said that $40 million was sufficient. Attorneys representing 47 villagers from Ecuador’s rain forest considered $19 billion. And now, we have several court decisions. Our story begins in 1967 when Texaco discovered oil in Ecuador. At first using helicopters…

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