Megan McArdle
Some surprisingly common foodstuffs are not grown at scale in the US, including coffee and vanilla. Hawaii produces enough coffee to satisfy less than 0.1% of annual US coffee demand.
Chris Rugaber
Overheard in the newsroom: "I just got something from a vanilla company. I guess 70% of the world's supply comes from Madagascar. We are going to have months and months worth of stories out of this. Hard to even know where to begin." (Magagascar now facing 47% tariffs).