GPF Team

Feb. 10, 2017 The global shipping industry hasn’t recovered from 2008, and that’s more bad news for German banks.

Feb. 10, 2017 Eighty-five percent of goods traded between the U.S. and Mexico are transported by truck or railway, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Two-way trade across the border totals $1.4 billion per day and takes place at 25 major ports of land entry between the U.S. and Mexico. Among these are 39 crossing points (high-volume locations such as Laredo, Brownsville and Nogales have multiple crossing points), of which 22 are open all day, every day. Border crossing delays can cost billions of dollars in trade. In 2011, Bloomberg estimated that delays at the U.S.-Mexico border cost the U.S. economy up to $7.8 billion annually.

Feb. 9, 2017 All the uproar in recent weeks has had little to do with foreign policy.

Feb. 6, 2017

Feb. 9, 2017 Despite Trump’s tough talk on Mexico, U.S. states have a different imperative.