Saturday, July 1, 2017

Democracy in Chains...? Was that not the vision of the founders?

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There has been a lot of buzz and controversy surrounding Nancy MacLean's book  "Democracy in Chains" in relation to how James ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Wednesday Post: Subsidies and Food Prices

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WaPo: One big reason some foods cost so much more than others “Hint: It’s (mostly) not subsidies. Although they’ve certainly played a role i...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Tuesday Assorted Links: Food, Health, and Nutrition

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Eggs can significantly increase growth in young children Association Between Indulgent Descriptions and Vegetable Consumption: Twisted Car...

Recent News in Agribusiness: Whole Foods and Amazon

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Its about the data. From: https://blog.dataiku.com/big-data-is-the-big-news-in-amazon-whole-foods-deal "If you consider the use of data...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Bursting the Big Data Bubble....with Theory

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There was an article in the June 2017 printing of Significance titled Bursting the big data bubble. Unfortunately I don't have paid ac...
Friday, June 9, 2017

December 2017 Corn Market Technicals and Fundamentals (6/9/17)

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This week there was some excitement in the new crop corn market. We saw a price breakout from the sideways pattern that we've been follo...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

In Praise of Finance, Futures, and Trading

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"Finance can be used to achieve some of the greatest challenges that are facing mankind, including things like dealing with cancer, Alz...