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The Economy Has Six Months to Live

Jan 12th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
The economy has about six months to live. Especially the part that consists of swapping paper certificates. That’s the buzz I’ve gotten the first two weeks of 2010, and forgive me for not presenting a sheaf of charts and graphs to make the case. Just about everybody else yakking about ...read more

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Agricultural Shortages

Apr 28th, 2008 | By | Category: Commodities
My grandmother, Oget Palm, was just a little girl when my family was scheduled to sail from Europe to New York in 1912. Her parents (my great-grandparents) and her siblings were prepared to make the trip from Gothenburg, Sweden, where they lived. They were scheduled to be in the steerage ...read more

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