Much of the damage to the midwest crops had already been done by, say, the third week in July.  So of course, the rains from Isaac are comin...

There is literally no description so harsh that Mitt Romney hasn't spent of lifetime earning it.  Matt Taibbi is on his case.  Last nigh...

We are beginning to see stories about the rather large losses facing the crop insurance business.  Pretty difficult to place a price tag on ...

In order for electrical cars to become a serious alternative, they MUST be built by serious car guys.  Robert Lutz is clearly a car guy and ...

Thank goodness its the Germans who are trying to convert a major industrial infrastructure to renewable power because there are going to maj...

Patents are probably one of the best ideas that almost never work.  The economic advantage of being second is overwhelming.  You don't i...

Neil Armstrong died Saturday at 82.  Of all the astronauts, it was Armstrong that I most identified with.  He was the airplane geek. They al...

Who built what?  Elizabeth Warren vs the outraged right. I hear all this, you know, “Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.”—No! ...

It seems rare, but virtue often triumphs.  We should remind ourselves of this fact more often.  Here we have another study that seems to pr...

Spent part of yesterday being carted about on a perfectly lovely tourist attraction dolled up to look like a mini riverboat called the Magno...

Pretty difficult to hide a drought that covers nearly 65% of the agricultural land in USA.  So of course, the Predators are circling this di...

If you ever needed a reason to condemn Leisure Class bankers and the way they are mismanaging the economy, this example will do.  The planet...

Everything the Producers do is a LOT harder than it looks.  That is why I want to strangle the hippies who try to tell us there are 50 easy ...

In some ways, this is one of the more interesting stories I have read in a LONG time.  Because IMF has been one of the bigger causes of huma...

In these days of infinite psychobabble, I am sure I stand accused of "obsessing" over the corn belt drought.  I probably am.  But ...

Famine, one of the more frightening disasters that can ever threaten humanity, hovers over this fall's harvest like an ancient specter. ...

From our friends the pork producers.  A big hog operation is already making money the hard way but when you're losing money, you are pay...

I am not so certain that the problem with economists is corruption,  Even so, it is not at all surprising that Chinese economists sound a lo...

Russia, India, Australia, and North America.  That a LOT of agriculture that is hurting at the same time.  And while Badkar makes the typica...