What WARN notices reveal about layoffs
The federal WARN Act gives covered workers 60 days of notice before mass layoffs. The public filings list sites, dates, and job titles before the cuts happen.
Monica Cummings · November 2, 2026News ABC
Manufacturing Consent: Why Chomsky's Media Theory Endures
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's 1988 book argues that market forces and internalized assumptions give big media a system-supportive propaganda function. The five-filter model still shapes how readers judge the news.
Monica Cummings · November 1, 2026
Currency Exchange and Trade: Why the Dollar Matters Everywhere
The US dollar became the world's foremost reserve currency at Bretton Woods in 1944 and kept the role after the gold link ended. That status still shapes how goods are quoted and paid for across borders.
Monica Cummings · October 31, 2026
Why booms and busts keep repeating
The US economy has logged 13 recessions since 1945, per the NBER's cycle table. Expansions ran 64.2 months on average since 1945, while contractions lasted 10.3 months.
Owen Blackwood · October 29, 2026
German firms shift from selling to India to building there
A minister's visit is the news hook. The durable story is how a sales market turns into a production base, and what signs tell you it is real.
Owen Blackwood · October 24, 2026
The Core Manufacturing Industries, Explained
A plain guide to the core manufacturing industries: transportation equipment, chemicals, electronics, and machinery, and how each one fits into global production.
Monica Cummings · October 18, 2026Manufacturing Experience: Getting Started in Manufacturing With No Degree
No degree? Manufacturing still hires. Learn how apprenticeships, trade schools, and entry level roles can build a factory career step by step.
Monica Cummings · October 14, 2026Why Manufacturing Jobs Pay What They Pay
Manufacturing pay is built on productivity, bargaining power, and scarce skills. See the history and the forces that set factory wages today.
Monica Cummings · October 7, 2026
Local politics guide: Your city council decides more than Congress does
Budgets, zoning and local taxes pass through a room of part-time officials. Here is how to follow the decisions.
Khalid Okonkwo · October 20, 2026Trade
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How Shipping Ports Work — Inside a Shipping Port: Behind the Scenes of World Commerce
Ports handle most of the world's trade by value, and the standardized shipping container made it all move fast. A plain-language tour of the docks, cranes, and boxes behind world commerce.
Monica Cummings · October 10, 2026
Trade agreements explained — Trade agreements 101: why ratification is the hard part
Negotiators can settle a deal in years. Getting legislatures in every country to say yes takes longer, and sometimes kills the pact.
Priya Vaithilingam · October 2, 2026
Trade deficit explained — Trade deficits explained: the number isn't what you think
A deficit measures one year of goods flows. It does not measure whether a country is winning, losing, or getting poorer.
Monica Cummings · September 26, 2026
How do tariffs work — Tariffs explained: who really pays and when
The importer writes the check, but the bill travels down the supply chain to businesses and shoppers.
Priya Vaithilingam · September 24, 2026Politics
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How lobbying works: who's at the table, and the rules
Registration thresholds, disclosure filings, and the difference between direct and grassroots influence, drawn from the statutes and the sources that explain them.
Khalid Okonkwo · October 20, 2026
State: Tariffs top the list at a Pennsylvania manufacturing roundtable
Eight state lawmakers heard one message in Schuylkill County: federal tariffs, energy costs and a worker shortage are squeezing the state's manufacturers.
Khalid Okonkwo · October 2, 2026Subsidy Allocation: Why Some Industries Win Subsidies, Others Don't
Subsidy allocation runs on committee seats, regional votes and which industry shows up with a jobs number attached.
Khalid Okonkwo · September 9, 2026How a Section 232 tariff gets imposed
Khalid Okonkwo · August 11, 2026Economy News
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Interest rates explained: How the Fed's rate lever works
The FOMC raised the federal funds target range by 25 basis points to 3.75 to 4.00 percent on September 16, 2026. How that lever reaches household loans.
Owen Blackwood · October 23, 2026
Inflation explained: why prices rise and what it costs you
Inflation is not one price going up. It is almost every price going up at once, and it quietly shrinks what your paycheck buys.
Owen Blackwood · October 22, 2026Cost of living explained — Wages vs prices: the real cost-of-living math
The squeeze is simple arithmetic: pay rises at one speed, rent and groceries rise at another.
Priya Vaithilingam · October 8, 2026What is a recession: What a recession is, and who declares one
The word gets thrown around constantly. The official call comes from a private research group, months late.
Priya Vaithilingam · September 20, 2026Business News
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How a merger clears its antitrust review
The Hart-Scott-Rodino process gives the FTC and the Justice Department 30 days over $133.9 million deals in 2026 to clear, investigate, or block a merger before it closes.
Khalid Okonkwo · October 28, 2026
Franchising explained: buying in without buying the hype
The fees, the support, and what the disclosure document shows before any money moves.
Monica Cummings · September 29, 2026Dallas Fed surveys put local pressures on the record
Three Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas releases in three days will show what manufacturers, retailers and energy producers are actually paying and hiring.
Monica Cummings · September 28, 2026Ghana: Mahama's 'concrete pillars' speech makes one hard promise
The resilience claim is political shorthand. The GH¢2.5 billion annual investment plan is the part with a budget line attached.
Monica Cummings · September 13, 2026