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An Observation on Corporate and Societal Resiliency and the Strength of the Human Spirit

Enterra Insights

This trip added a very human dimension because of the suffering of millions of displaced Ukrainians, the insecurity of people living next to Ukraine, and the incredible outpouring of kindness and support from Ukraine’s neighbors – in particular, Poland, the United States, Canada, and others.

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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

The current market trends indicate that the manufacturing industries are poised to reshore back to the United States in a big way. Although offshoring is still going on, about an equal number of companies are reshoring. Drop in the price of crude oil. But things have changed a bit since then.

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Looking Ahead: Ukraine Reconstruction

Enterra Insights

Among those organizations are: The Open Society Foundations; the German Marshall Fund of the United States; the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS); the World Bank; the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); the Atlantic Council; Deloitte; the Brookings Institution; the European Commission; and the RAND Corporation.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Interest Rates : The Federal Reserve in the United States is expected to raise interest rates this week , the first increase since cutting the rate to near zero following the Great Recession in 2008. So, the ball is in the court of those industries and their governing bodies to come up with their own sustainability goals and plans.

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The Weight of Memory

Tailwind

A Captain, my uncle Al came home to live on the quarter-acre of land the Canadian government allocated to returning veterans. United States. November the 11 th is Veterans Day in the United States. I vaguely recall that he said he had been in Germany in a row of houses having a respite from the battle.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

This was felt most drastically in the last few years, when such events as 9/11, the war in Iraq, the West Coast port workers’ strike, and increased regulatory and customs delays brought supply chain operations to a standstill. United States Steel Corp. Supplier Relationship Management. Microsoft Corp. Norfolk Southern Corp.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Because it allows for quicker connections between the East and West coasts, cutting the distance traveled by ship by nearly 13,000 km (from 21,000 km to 8,000 km), the Panama Canal is of particular strategic importance to the United States. But in 1903, the United States-backed Panamanian revolution led to the country's independence.

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