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By Craig Fuller of FreightWaves

No one wants a hurricane to make landfall. Among nature’s most damaging events, hurricanes that hit land in the United States usually cause death, destruction and misery. They can also cause havoc to supply chains. 

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina was a 100,000-truckload event, requiring one of the largest relief and recovery supply deployments in U.S. history. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey prompted one of the greatest truck capacity crunches in recent history.  (more…)

By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities

Maybe it is the new math, but is it really the G20 when neither China nor Russia show up?

I’m not sure anyone really expected Russia to show up. Leaving the borders of Russia is not the best thing that Putin could do for his own safety or security. The fact that China (Xi) did not attend is more interesting. I haven’t seen an official statement as to why he did not attend, but I have read that the reasons could include anything from (more…)

By Jean-Laurent Cadorel of Exante Data

• Monetary policy matters in the short-run through its impact on asset prices, demand, and activity;

• Yet in the long run the economy is assumed to gravitate towards some “natural” rate of activity independent of such monetary actions;

• A growing number of researchers are asking, however, whether monetary policy can have hysteresis effects and impact the natural rate through innovation activity.

THIS YEAR’S (more…)