Tag Archives: stock market

Largest trade imbalance in nine years, biggest stock market drop in a decade, government set to borrow nearly $1 trillion… Is this the “tidal wave” of good economic news Trump was talking about?

By Mark | February 6, 2018

As I took last night off, there’s a lot that we could talk about today. We could talk about he fact that our president, standing before a terrifyingly representative sample of what’s left of his base announced that those who refuse to applaud him are “un-American” and likely “treasonous”. Or we could talk about the […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged $1.50, budget deficit, Cadet Bone Spurs, DACA, deficit spending, Donald Trump, Dow Jones, international trade, Jay Carney, John Kelly, Koch brothers, lazy, Medicaid, Medicare, military parade, New Deal, Paul Ryan, racism, rolling back the New Deal, Sean Hannity, social security, Steven Mnuchin, trade deficit, treason, un-American, wealth inequality | 218 Comments

Pete Larson on the financialization of agricultural commodities

By Mark | September 26, 2012

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, commoditization, 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, supply and demand, sustainable agriculture, University of Michigan, Wall Street | 14 Comments

Connect

Recent Comments

BUY LOCAL... or shop at Amazon through this link

Banner Initiative

Peter Sickman-Garner

Elsewhere

Shop at Amazon