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April 30, 2007
Corn prices are up. Demand is up. That much the “CBS Evening News” reported. But the April 27 report left out the primary reason.
“It’s a gold rush everyone wants to get in on,” said CBS…
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May 23, 2007
Global warming must already have fried our brains. George Bush and the Congress can’t wait to pour more subsidies into corn ethanol. Indonesia is clearing tropical forest to grow palm oil for Europe’s diesel engines. Canada is about to build…
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August 6, 2008
Julius Caesar’s decision to cross the river Rubicon touched off three years of bloodshed and strife that changed the Roman world. So it is (in less dramatic fashion) with the decisions Congress will make about whether and how to bail out Fannie…