I try my best not to be too terribly sentimental about things. I understand that, no matter how much we might try to stop it from happening, everything changes. I know, eventually, everything wonderful and meaningful is destroyed and replaced. As I’ve discussed here before, though, there are certain things I find it difficult to […]
Tag Archives: commoditization
The legacy of CBGB further unwinds into nothingness with Target’s East Village appropriation
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Atlanta, CBGB, David Spivey, East Village, East Village Grieve, Hilly Kristal, New Jersey, Nordstrom, popular culture, punk, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Stereogum, Stiv Bators, Talking Heads, television, The Patti Smith Group 42 Comments
Pete Larson on the financialization of agricultural commodities
One of our regular contributors, my old friend Pete Larson, who many of you had the pleasure of seeing perform at this site’s 10th anniversary party a few weeks ago, is going to be speaking in Ann Arbor on Thursday about the financialization of agricultural commodities. I took the occasion to ask him a few […]
Posted in Agriculture, Economics Also tagged agricultural commodities, Agriculture, big ag, College Truth Tour, Cuba, deregulation, derivatives, Dodd-Frank, economic crash, financial industry, financial reform, food crisis, food prices, healthy food access, hedge funds, Herman Cain, Howard Stein, human rights, Joe Stiglitz, New World Ecology and Agriculture Group, NWEAG, Pete Larson, pork, Richard Levins, Science For the People, scientists, speculation, stock market, supply and demand, sustainable agriculture, University of Michigan, Wall Street 14 Comments