Globalization is once again under fire. In the past, developing nations often complained that the benefits of increased global trade flowed disproportionately to the developed world. Today the shoe is on the other foot. Wide swaths of the American public are reacting favorably to Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders’s proposals to reign in free trade […]
Economics
$100 goes far in Mississippi . . . but San Francisco? Not so much
The Christian Science Monitor just published an article on the states where $100 is worth the most and least based on cost of living data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. A hundred dollars is worth the most in 1. Mississippi ($115.21) 2. Arkansas ($114.20) 3. South Dakota ($114.16) 4. Alabama ($114.03) 5. West […]