20+ hour, 20+ min ago  (339+ words) One of the bankrupt ideas of Robert Moses, as told in The Power Broker by Robert Caro, was that building more roads would fix the traffic problem. "Some city planners noticed that the traffic pattern on Long Island had fallen…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (169+ words) Botswana has lost some of its economic luster. Consider these figures: from independence in 1966 to the early 2000s, the economy grew at over 7% per year. Botswana was one of only 13 countries globally, and the sole one in Africa, to sustain such…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (998+ words) An analysis of global metal price trends from the World Bank, examining how resilient demand, tightening supply, and clean-energy investment are shaping the outlook for copper, aluminum, and other base metals in the Commodity Markets Outlook. Metal prices poised to…...