After each milestone for soccer in the U.S., the same question always follows, has the sport finally “arrived” in the mainstream? The U.S. 5-2 victory over Japan in the Women’s World Cup final is the latest example, with 26.7 million U.S. viewers, it became the most-watched soccer game in U.S. history.
Having devoured many of the world’s factory jobs, China is now handing them over to robots. China already ranks as the world’s largest market for robotic machines.
You don’t need to a Nobel Prize in economics to know that the fracking revolution has been good for the U.S. What’s not so well known is just how competitive cheap oil and gas has made American manufacturing.
Much more is highlighted in A Look Around the Nation and the World.
