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THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS The World Food Program’s description of the global food crisis raises the specter of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger...

The following is the 2014 Budget Speech tabled by Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at the Dewan Rakyat Friday. PM Najib Tun Razak “STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC RESILIENCE, ACCELERATING TRANSFORMATION AND FULFILLING...

Governments and international institutions have become accomplices, when not co-profiteers, in a productivist, unsustainable and privatized food system. Their  “concern” about the increase in the price of the staple foods and its impact on the most disadvantaged...

Ben Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech is out. The full speech is below. The basic gist seems to be: If things don't get better Fed can do more asset purchases, as past QE programs have worked. But there's little in there about extroardinary new measures...

By John Mauldin The common meme in today’s world is that we are slowly (or perhaps even rapidly in some instances) destroying our global environment. Not just by way of global warming, but pollution, over farming, water usage, and increasing use of...