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New study shows not a kernel of truth in blaming ethanol
Critics of renewable fuels keep claiming that the production of American ethanol threatens the food supply and raises food prices. Not true. There just isn't any statistical evidence that increased ethanol production results in rising food prices,...Tags: Politics, Petroleum Industry, Market and Exchange, Ethanol, Food Industry
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Cargill CEO: Government is to blame for food price hike
CHICAGO (AP) - Cargill Inc. Chief Executive Officer Greg Page, who runs the largest agricultural company in the United States, has a good idea whom to blame for the global surge in food prices at the end of 2010: governments. Page urged delegates and...Tags: New York, Politics, Mosaic Co., Fertilizer, Food Industry
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Globalism: The Metastatic Financial Cancer
The realities of the impending economic disaster and implosion are such that most folks have not the slightest inclination to learn what’s really happening for a variety of reasons. None of them good, I might add. The first being laziness, the...Tags: Elections, Cancer, Politics, International Monetary Fund, Money and Monetary Policy
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Foreign investor `land grabs¿ harm poor farmers, Oxfam says
WASHINGTON -- Foreign-investor purchases of farmland in poorer nations are displacing local populations and adding little to a country’s wealth, even as agricultural prices increase, according to Oxfam International. As many as 561 million acres...Tags: Sudan, Harvard University, China, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, International Economic Institution
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Nobel Peace Prize winner set to win Liberian presidential runoff
World NowLiberian President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was set to retain power in a runoff presidential election Tuesday after her opponent Winston Tubman boycotted the race.... -
Square adds former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers to board
L.A. Times Tech BlogSquare, the mobile payments start-up from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has added former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers to its board of directors. Until late last year, Summers served as President Barack Obama's chief economic adviser, and was... -
ALGERIA: Postponing economic therapy is playing with fire
Babylon & BeyondEditor’s note: This post is from analyst Lahcen Achy, below left, with the Carnegie Middle East Center. Neither the Los Angeles Times nor Babylon & Beyond endorses the positions of the analysts, nor does Carnegie endorse the positions of The...... -
Demonstrations on Mexico drug war offered look at Mexicans abroad
La PlazaWhen large demonstrations in Mexico calling for an end to the drug war grew last spring, communities of citizens abroad perked up and took notice. Chatter began popping up on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. Virtual groups formed. Mexicans... -
The week in Latin America: Start-ups grow in Cuba
La PlazaHere are stories that made headlines this week in Latin America, and highlights from our coverage of the region by Times reporters and your blogger here at La Plaza: Small businesses in Cuba Reporting from Havana, correspondent Tracy Wilkinson examines... -
Asian shares tumble on grim U.S. jobs report
Money & CompanyAsian shares suffered heavy losses Monday, the first day of trading after last week's bleak U.S. jobs report intensified fears of a global recession. Japan's Nikkei 225 index was down 1.8%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index lost about 3% and South Korea's Kospi... -
U.S. global economic competitiveness trails Sweden, Finland
Money & CompanyWorld Economic Forum says U.S. global competitiveness in fifth place... -
China's central bank chief says policy to remain stable
Money & CompanyThe head of China’s central bank said the world’s second largest economy would continue to tackle inflation and resist major policy changes that could provoke a so-called hard-landing. “We will not introduce macro economic policies...
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