Connecting the Dots

As part of their end-of-year negotiations, members of Congress will decide whether to extend the Generalized System of Preferences  (GSP) program. For readers who are not familiar: what is GSP? Politico explained that the program waives […] Read More

President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Katherine Tai as the U.S. Trade Representative, the individual responsible for overseeing U.S. trade policy and negotiating new trade agreements. Tai currently is the chief trade counsel for the U.S. […] Read More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week finalized a new standard for developing and communicating potential costs and benefits of air regulations. As Reuters explained, historically, the EPA had been criticized for its opaque […] Read More

Last week’s Connecting the Dots touched on what early COVID-19 vaccine distribution would look like in the United States. Since then, governments in both Canada and the United States have approved emergency use of the […] Read More

  Nonfarm business sector labor productivity in the United States increased 4.6 percent in the third quarter of 2020 due to a 43.4 percent rise in output and a 37.1 percent jump in hours worked. […] Read More