Nice video on the NYT about how Israel is irrigating high-tech desert farming. High food prices have made certain previously unlikely...
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Crude Oil is down to $115 (continuous cash futures contract). We also have some Backwardation — meaning futures (September...
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Tobias Merath, a commodity analyst at Credit Suisse Group, talks with Bloomberg’s Bernard Lo and Haslinda Amin in Singapore about...
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Regular readers know I am no fan of ethanol — over-subsidized gasoline substitute that has helped to drive food inflation...
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Boone Pickens details to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil: click for Video UPDATE: July 9, 2008 9:43pm Jeff...
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Following up on our Polyanna post last week, here’s some more Leonhardt: While Congress is barking up the wrong tree —...
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Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, talks about the U.S. and emerging-market economies, the state of...
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As per our earlier discussion: We know health care costs have skyrocketed, that education costs are through the roof, and that Housing...
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China’s subsidized fuel prices worked miracles in the past, but because they hurt energy stocks, they are now a major policy...
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