Newsletter www.theatlantic.com How climate change helped fuel the U.S. lumber shortage Bitcoin? Blasé. Gold? Going out of style. "The hottest commodity on the planet," according to Dustin Jalbert, an economist at the market-research firm Fastmarkets, is lumber.
Causes www.propublica.org Oregon’s logging industry says it can't afford new taxes. But profits are soaring Lobbyists claim the timber industry is "up against the ropes." Here's what they're not saying: Lumber prices are at record highs.
