‘BP’ (Big Picture) Investing: The Only Way to Go
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Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time
Ryan Singel Wired Federal law enforcement agencies have been tracking Americans in real-time using credit cards, loyalty cards and travel reservations without getting a court…
Wheat-Crop Quality in Australia’s Queensland Is Hurt by Rains, Growers Say
Wendy Pugh Bloomberg More than half of the wheat crop from Australia’s Queensland state may deteriorate to feed grade following heavy rain, tightening milling-quality supplies…
CHART OF THE DAY: Global Food Prices About To Break An All Time High
Gregory White Business Insider Inflation in emerging markets is hitting food prices hard, and now we have raw data from the UN to confirm. The…
Rice May Triple in 18 Months as Supplies Tighten, Duxton’s Peter Forecasts
Chanyaporn Chanjaroen Bloomberg Rice, the staple food of more than three billion people, may as much as triple in 18 months as flooding in exporters…
Tighter food supplies, high prices to persist
Svetlana Kovalyova Reuters World food prices are set to remain high in 2011/12 with supplies tightening and demand running strong, the United Nations’ food agency…
More than 8 million drop out of credit card use
Eileen AJ Connelly Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – More than 8 million consumers stopped using credit cards over the past year. The decline…
How the U.S. Government Guaranteed the Coming Global Food Crisis
Steve Sjuggerud Market Oracle Porter Stansberry with Braden Copeland write: Over the last several years, I’ve written constantly on the growing likelihood of a global…
New Food Crisis Looms
Food Aid Pakistan -Athar Hussain/Reuters Toni Johnson Council on Foreign Relations The world experienced a major food crisis in 2008 that led to civil and…
Goldman In Insider Trading Probe?
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone News leaked out today that the feds will soon be herding a whole pen full of Wall Street firms into court…
U.S. in Vast Insider Trading Probe
Susan Pulliam, Michael Rothfeld, Jenny Strasburg, Gregory Zuckerman Wall Street Journal Federal authorities, capping a three-year investigation, are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants,…
Woman Sues Debt Collectors Over Alleged Facebook Harassment
Laura Bassett Huffington Post A Florida woman who fell behind on her car payments is suing the company she claims has been using Facebook to…
Think $5 Corn Is Expensive? Some Are Betting On $10 Next Year
Cattle Network The corn market’s rally above $5 a bushel this fall has stirred growing consternation among livestock producers and others dependent on the largest…
Get Out of the Stock Market and Into These Alternative Investments
George Self Investing Answers The S&P 500 is down more than -9% from five years ago. If you haven’t already, maybe it’s time to consider…