Laura Curtis

RT @megan_e_howard: "The significance of a work stoppage at every major container port from Houston to Miami and New York-New Jersey depend…

Union chief Harold Daggett, clad in a blue sweatshirt that read “The Docks Are Ours,” relished the fear he says gripped his negotiating rivals over his opposition to automation — a key hurdle in the strike on US East and Gulf Ports.https://t.co/a4yrMpHdsl via @economics

Dockworkers have walked out of every major port on the US East and Gulf coasts, marking the beginning of a strike that could ripple through the world’s largest economy. https://t.co/PqVCFxrrvc @business

The US Maritime Alliance has offered to boost wages for dockworkers by nearly 50% in an effort to avoid a potentially crippling strike at East Coast and Gulf ports https://t.co/QddTsgg73G via @economics

Ahead of a dockworker strike that could shut ports from Houston to Boston, a White House official said they are watching freight rates and surcharges imposed by ocean carriers and don’t want to see anti-competitive price moves. https://t.co/UBofRgdpNy via @economics

Biden’s aides met with ocean carrier and terminal representatives Friday and have been in touch with the dockworker union this week, according to a White House official https://t.co/Mnswwdxrf3 via @bpolitics

Just weeks before a knife-edged election, some 45,000 dockworkers at every major eastern and Gulf coast port are threatening to strike if there's no deal on a new six-year labor contract by Oct. 1. https://t.co/PRdvaKF3R9 via @economics

RT @NatPress: Reporters from Bloomberg @business and @economics have won NPF’s 2023 Hinrich Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on…

Seven out of 10 Californians think kids growing up in the Golden State will be financially worse off than their parents, according to a statewide survey https://t.co/gq7AOv56hP via @economics

Economies with robust domestic demand are performing better as trade flows influenced by geopolitical shifts https://t.co/UxzwG6iinZ via @economics

RT @ZSchneeweiss: Climate change is driving global inflation even higher https://t.co/3A66vxpsd2 via @MyStephanomics @LouKCurtis @MollySmit…

US West Coast port employers and union workers have reached a tentative agreement after talks dragged on for more than a year https://t.co/kCEM000Mfv via @business

Six container vessels in LA-LB were canceled or delayed Tuesday and Wednesday as West Coast ports endure the longest labor disruptions since 2015 https://t.co/5JBwprYTlO via @business

Intermittent disruptions at several key US West Coast ports look set to stretch into their fifth day Tuesday amid ongoing labor-contracts negotiations. https://t.co/11AyPtijaS via @bpolitics @economics

Labor actions have disrupted work at several key US West Coast port terminals, all of which are part of protracted negotiations over a new contract for dockworkers https://t.co/LQJMQwsjmH via @economics

What does a drought in Central America have to do with the battle against sticky #inflation? @ruth_on_LNG @mdmcdonald and I take a look at what is unnerving economists and supply-chain experts, with graphics by @kyleykim https://t.co/49zYL84Z0n via @economics

RT @SteveMatthews12: Hike or skip? Fed governor Chris Waller says he'll weigh the data over the next several weeks to decide whether to fav…