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Business Journalism 2010

While endlessly low rates have failed to produce anything even resembling jobs growth or housing recovery, our new unintended consequence seems to be a higher tab for our daily bread (and coffee and vegetables and dairy and beef, etc).

Unbelievable.

Surging economies are bringing the farm economy back to life, even as the rest of the US struggles.

Jeff Carter from the excellent Points and Figures blog watched this Sunday’s 60 Minutes show on High Frequency Trading and reviewed it.

Where does your favorite Fed Head stand in the debate between stimulus or austerity?

Keep obsessing over gold, but the real explosion is happening in the agricultural commodity complex.  Food prices around the world are exploding.  Farmer Brown has been discussing the Agflation theme here since the summer.  It’s happening… Where Did The Corn Go? (Daily Markets): “Shocking!” That is the term used by some grain traders just after…

According to the survey, more than half (55 percent) of investors say any positive gains in their portfolios in these markets qualifies as a success, while another 23 percent believe that break-even investment returns can be considered successful.

All the links fit to link to.