Aug 21, 2019

The Arctic monies

A little auk (Alle-alle) flies near the Kronebeene glacier in the Svalbard archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean, on July 21, 2015. DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images

Japan tries to avoid a tax war. One of Trump's proposed stimulus tax cuts could have little effect. The race for resources under Arctic ice.

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