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U.S. Craft Beer Brewers Thrive, Despite Small Share Of The Market
It’s a good time to brew beer in America. According to beer expert Julia Herz, U.S. brewing isn’t just on the upswing, it’s on top. “We’re now the No. 1 destination for beer, based on diversity and amount of beers,” she says.
I <3 beer.
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Craft breweries account for more than 95 percent of the breweries in America, but they make just 6 percent of the beer.
— NPR Planet Money: More Breweries. Less Beer.
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How Oil Prices Affect the Economy: Calling for a Third Industrial Revolution
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The Difference Between the U.S. and Europe in 1 Graph
The difference between the U.S. and Europe is that when the Greek economy “pulls a Mississippi” (or perhaps I should say, when Mississippi “pulls a Greece”), the EU and the U.S. have 180-degree opposite reactions. Over here, we calmly write checks to Mississippi in the form of Medicaid and unemployment insurance, no questions asked. Europe has no comparable “Peripheraid” for its weak peripheral states. Instead, it has chaos.
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The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US
posted 1 month ago | via news.ycombinator.com
