The History Of Factory Jobs In America, In One Town
For more, see Adam Davidson's cover story in this month's issue of The Atlantic. Greenville County, South Carolina is where manufacturing's past and future live side by side. This is not a metaphor;...
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This is the second in a two-part series. Part one is here. For more, see Adam Davidson's cover story in this month's issue of The Atlantic.
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Turn on the news on any given day, and you're likely to hear about the Dow Jones industrial average. It is the most frequently checked, and cited, proxy of U.S. economic health. But a lot of people —...
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View ArticleMeet Claudia, The High-Tech Cow
Here's the secret of the modern dairy farm: The essential high-tech advances aren't in machinery. They're inside the cow. Take a cow like Claudia. She lives at Fulper Farms, a dairy farm in upstate New...
View ArticleWhy Are Some Countries Rich And Others Poor?
Why are some nations rich and others poor? In a new book called Why Nations Fail, a pair of economists argue that a lot comes down to politics. To research the book, the authors scoured the world for...
View ArticleWhy Matzo Makers Love Regulation
For more, see our video, Inside The Matzo Factory, and see Adam Davdson's latest NYT Magazine column The matzo business may be the most heavily regulated business in the world.
View ArticleScandal That Cost Barclays Chairman His Job Threatens To Spread
Every day at 11 a.m., a few big banks tell the British Bankers' Association what it costs them to borrow. Out of that comes LIBOR — the London Interbank Offered Rate, a dull but vital interest rate...
View ArticleThis Man Makes Beautiful Suits, But He Can't Afford To Buy One
Peter Frew is one of a tiny number of people left in the United States who can — entirely on his own, using almost no machinery — make a classic bespoke suit. He can measure you, draw a pattern, cut...
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One jobs number gets all the attention: The number of jobs lost or gained in the previous month.That number is important. But focusing too much on the net change in jobs can be misleading. It gives the...
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We examine how the exchange rate between the Euro and the U.S. dollar reflects the health of the global economy.
View ArticleThe History Of Factory Jobs In America, In One Town
For more, see Adam Davidson's cover story in this month's issue of The Atlantic . Greenville County in South Carolina is where manufacturing's past and future live side by side. This is not a metaphor;...
View ArticleThe Transformation Of American Factory Jobs, In One Company
This is the second in a two-part series. Part one is here . For more, see Adam Davidson's cover story in this month's issue of The Atlantic . Larry Sills is the CEO of Standard Motor Products, like his...
View ArticleWhat Do The Dow's Daily Swings Mean? Not Much.
Turn on the news on any given day, and you're likely to hear about the Dow Jones industrial average. It is the most frequently checked, and cited, proxy of U.S. economic health. But a lot of people —...
View ArticleA Revival In American Manufacturing, Led By Brooklyn Foodies
One day Chris Woehrle decided to finally leave his corporate job and pursue his dream: to become an artisanal food craftsman. And so, every day at home, he'd basically pickle stuff. "I had a...
View ArticleMeet Claudia, The High-Tech Cow
Here's the secret of the modern dairy farm: The essential high-tech advances aren't in machinery. They're inside the cow. Take a cow like Claudia. She lives at Fulper Farms, a dairy farm in upstate New...
View ArticleWhy Are Some Countries Rich And Others Poor?
Why are some nations rich and others poor? In a new book called Why Nations Fail , a pair of economists argue that a lot comes down to politics. To research the book, the authors scoured the world for...
View ArticleWhy Matzo Makers Love Regulation
For more, see our video, Inside The Matzo Factory , and see Adam Davdson's latest NYT Magazine column The matzo business may be the most heavily regulated business in the world. The regulators are...
View ArticleScandal That Cost Barclays Chairman His Job Threatens To Spread
Every day at 11 a.m., a few big banks tell the British Bankers' Association what it costs them to borrow. Out of that comes LIBOR — the London Interbank Offered Rate, a dull but vital interest rate...
View ArticleThis Man Makes Beautiful Suits, But He Can't Afford To Buy One
Peter Frew is one of a tiny number of people left in the United States who can — entirely on his own, using almost no machinery — make a classic bespoke suit. He can measure you, draw a pattern, cut...
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