Amazing how the US are still pulling this stuff. They tried it a few years back with steel, now it’s shrimp. How can you maintain credibility when you force the whole world into adopting free markets, and then go off and protect your own?
Shrimp, the most popular seafood in America, may become more expensive soon [...]

The Wise Many:
Surowiecki argues that, under the right conditions, large groups of people exercise exceptionally good judgment. Even accounting for individual limitations and natural tendencies toward prejudice and irrationality, collective decisions usually will outperform expert opinion, particularly when the group does not defer to those opinions. What those “right conditions” are is the good part. [...]

I can’t really decide whether the move to scrap Euro cent coins is good or bad. Shopkeepers will naturally round up. Individual increases per item will only be a few cents, but this quickly adds up. Whichever way you look at it, stuff will become more expensive. Life has already become much more expensive, ever [...]