Weekly Economic News Roundup and food insecurity
Developing Economies
The Many Sides of African Food Insecurity

In a new paper, the IMF describes the prevalence of sub-Saharan food insecurity, its causes, and what needs to be targeted to diminish it.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and hard and soft infrastructure
Economic History
How to Look at Infrastructure

To see the need for hard and soft infrastructure, we can look back at the catastrophic Donner Party and ahead to contemporary legislation.

Apple's finances
What's Trending
U.S. Steel and Apple: From One Billion to One Trillion

Rather like Apple just became the first trillion dollar corporation, in 1901 U.S. Steel took us past the billion dollar threshold.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and mobile money
Money and Banking
Where Phones Pump Money

Kenya’s economic development has been fueled by a mobile banking system that makes it easy to save, send and spend money with a cell phone.

Crowd funding is the source of a new group of financial intermediaries.
Business
One Woman’s Response To Uber

Whether looking at a woman who needs close to $360 to pay her rent or a railroad that needs to be built, financial intermediaries are an economic necessity.

The banks and insurance companies are financial intermediaries that avoid legal marijuana business.
Economic History
Marijuana Money Problems

Colorado’s marijuana growers and dealers are wasting resources because banks and insurance companies will not act as their financial intermediaries.

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