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  • A US Manufacturing Safety Net and Tariffs
    Tariffs have now been a topic of US debate for nearly 10 years.  The debate has many compartments, but assistance for US manufacturing has been a consistent theme.  This article…
  • Historical Corn versus Soybean Returns in Illinois
    Average per acre returns to soybean production have exceeded those for corn production in 10 out of the 13 crop years from 2013 to 2025. The opposite was true over…
  • Concentration and Monopoly Pricing: What Economics Tells Us
    The US has entered one of its reoccurring eras of concern over concentrated markets and what economists call monopoly pricing. Three intertwined lessons from the long history of market concentration and monopoly pricing in public policy and economic thought are discussed: (1) monopoly pricing depends on barriers to market entry not number and size of […]