Rebecca Spalding

Rebecca Spalding

June 19, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Southern Ports Break Records as Panama Canal Anniversary Nears

Southern ports are experiencing a record foreign trade boom thanks in part to an expanded Panama Canal that permits Asian cargo ships to reach them more easily.

By Rebecca Spalding

2 minute read

June 02, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Puerto Rican Exodus Is Speeding Island's Economic Collapse

The choice is heartbreaking: stay to help other families, or leave to help your own. That's the calculation thousands in Puerto Rico are making. The bankruptcy of the U.S. commonwealth, the culmination of years of decline, has accelerated an exodus that's adding to the island's economic misery.

By Jonathan Levin and Rebecca Spalding

5 minute read