This morning’s perusal of articles posted by those I follow on Twitter yields this bit of potentially frightening news (and a hat tip to @CathyAtThe Fund for sharing). In a post dated just yesterday, Chris Nelder at Energy & Capital asks, “Is Farmland the Trade of the Century?” Legendary investor Jim Rogers has been all over the investing press this year, saying that farmland is his preferred vehicle. “If I’m right, agriculture is going to be one of the greatest industries in the ne

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The Newest (and Scariest) Speculation: Farmland

Using Currency Trading Charts To Forecast Price Movements Currency trading charts and the various indicators that come with them are the tools used by nearly every trader in forex And it can be the skill with which you use these tools that can determine whether you ever get to be successful, so let’s have a quick survey of them . .Before we do, bear in mind that there are only three pieces of information you’re looking for from any indicator or chart You want to know whether the price is g

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California sprouts ‘green rush’ from marijuana Published – Jul 18 2009 11:02AM PDT By MARCUS WOHLSEN and LISA LEFF – Associated Press Writers   (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) In this May 20, 2009 photo, Tom Romero packs one-eighth-ounce bags of medical marijuana at The Green Door dispensary in San Francisco. Since California became the first state to legalize the drug for medicinal use, the weed that the federal government puts in the same category as heroin and cocaine has become a major economic

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The strategically unpredictable, massively destructive combat of Team 17’s Worms returns to PlayStation Portable in this follow-up to 2006’s Open Warfare. As in that predecessor, and earlier home computer versions of the internationally popular game, teams of heavily armed, anthropomorphic worms take time-limited turns, maneuvering around 2D battlefields and taking their best shots at the enemy, trying to take shifting winds, destructible terrain, and randomly placed explosives in to account as

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Home Decor Drives Nursery Decor A Room that will Last and Grow A Comfortable “Mini Apartment” Interesting, Personalized Artwork — The other day, I had a great conversation about nursery decor and design with acclaimed designer and southern gentleman Kenneth Brown . The host of HGTV’s reDesign , new dad Kenneth spends plenty of time in his own baby daughter Harper’s nursery . Kenneth’s clientele for his celebrated Los Angeles design firm, Kenneth Brown , is a Who’

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(Bloomberg) — China’s stock market may surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest by value in three years as state- owned companies sell new shares and the nation’s 1.4 billion people put more of their money into equities, Mark Mobius said. “The Chinese population is just dipping its toe into equities and they’ve got a long way to go,” Mobius, who oversees about $25 billion of emerging-market assets as executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management Ltd., said in an interview with Bloomberg

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More Fun with Fiat Money: Mobius Says China Market Value to Overtake U.S. in Three Years

At UN on Myanmar, Ban Is Asked to Not “Mislead” the Council as Groups Says Gambari Did Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN: News Analysis UNITED NATIONS, July 13, update — Ten days after his fruitless visit to Myanmar, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon returned to the UN in New York to brief the Security Council and then take limited questions from the press. Beyond his failure to meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, questions that have arisen sin

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At UN on Myanmar, Ban Is Asked to Not “Mislead” the Council as Groups Says Gambari Did

THE ENTERPRISE– MY “DEPRESSION”–U.S.A.- A COUNTRY IN CRISISQUICK HITS–SOME BIG, SOME SMALLER—BACK TO SCHOOL SALES WILL SUFFER–RETAIL WILL CONTINUE TO LANGUISHParents will make do with less, spend less and shop harder.  Pricing on everything will be depressed by retailers competing for business.  BTS used to be a big lift for retailers falling between the summer vacation doldrums and the fall holiday season (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas).  Not any more.—DON’T BE MISLED BY THIS PAST

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THE ENTERPRISE– MY "DEPRESSION"–U.S.A.- A COUNTRY IN CRISIS

by Chuck R Stewart If you are still struggling with your decision whether to buy Telluride real estate or anywhere else in the country, then you may be missing out on the golden chance of cashing in during these most perfect investment opportunity. There is no better time than now to take the plunge and invest on Telluride properties or properties elsewhere that are currently available. Here are the 7 BIG reasons why you have to invest on properties right now

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By Amy R. Ramos, Miller-McCune.com Posted on July 17, 2009, Printed on July 17, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/141372/ The silver lining — if there is one — in this horrible [financial] crisis is that for years, the country just wasn’t paying attention to how the typical worker was doing,” declares New York Times labor and workplace correspondent Steven Greenhouse. “There was so much focus on the wizards of Wall Street and the brilliant entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, but very, very

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Boston GlobeCIT Group’s Banks Said to Weigh Bankruptcy Financing for LenderBloombergJPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are talking with other banks about a debtor-in-possession loan, used to fund a company’s operations after it seeks court protection from creditors, according to the …Troubled CIT is part of the garment industry’s fabricLos Angeles TimesCIT Fate In Balance; Shares, Short-Dated Bonds UpCNNMoney.comCREDIT MARKETS: CIT, Bank Earnings Keep Investors On ToesWall Street JournalReuters -Char

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Affiliate marketing is the best opportunity to make money online with more and more people jumping on board everyday. Being an affiliate beginner is a bit confusing not knowing where and how to get started, An affiliate is basically someone who promotes other peoples products earning themselves a commission, using sites such as click bank, commission junction and many more. You can earn a nice little bit of extra cash being an affiliate as some sites like click bank pay up to 75% commission and

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July 17th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Well as long as we’ve got Paul Krugman up on the site, let’s talk about today’s column titled “The Joy of Sachs.” Paul’s always been good at puns, but he’s best at clearly describing what’s going on in our economy, how it affects us, and what needs to be changed.Krugman’s column is about how and why Goldman Sachs is making billions again and is about to reward its employees with huge bonuses.  How can this be?  We haven’t even seen the worst of this r

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Wall Street Greedheads are Back and Ready to Steal Your Money

Related: Record quarterly profits and bonuses: Goldman Sachs makes out like a bandit on taxpayer’s dime | Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine | Top Senate Democrat: bankers “own” the U.S. Congress | Wall Street’s Big Takeover | Congress Accuses Federal Reserve Bagman Of Bailout “Bait and Switch” During Angry Hearing | Morgan Chase Exec Brags Bailout Is for Takeovers, Restructuring, Not Lending | Behind the panic: Financial warfare over the future of global bank power |

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Paulson Threatened Great Depression, Food Riots To Get Bailout Bill Passed

With prices of commodities increasing gradually it is proper to make your very own strategic plan on maximizing your financial resources and making sure that every penny earned is well spent. Make your move on coordinating your finances and list of expenditures that may have an effect on the way you use your returns and empower you on your economic stability as a working person. The first factor that you need to be aware of and considered to be the most critical for any person who wishes t

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Take control Of Your Finances: Information On Budgeting

VeteranOwnedBusiness.com would like to welcome GBIT Solutions, LLC  of Phoenix, Arizona as our latest Veteran Owned Business Directory Enhanced Listing. GBIT Solutions, LLC Details: “We are a Veteran owned company certified in computer System and Network Security and Microsoft Operating Systems, with over 15 years of experience in computer network design, installations and support. Our office is conveniently located in central Phoenix, AZ making it easy to service those in Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, and all other Metro-Phoenix area cities.” If you are the owner of a business and are a current or past member of the United States armed forces, please be sure to visit the VeteranOwnedBusiness.com sign up page to get your free listing

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The frustration of paying fees is one that many of us have felt, whether it’s on your bank account, on a ticket booking or the over-keen traffic warden on your local high-street. Often, you just have to put up with them as a part of life, but when they’re excessive, unfair and disproportionate, you’ll want to put a stop to them. Banks have long used their access to our hard-earned as an easy way of making money from fees and bank charges and recently, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) have sa

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Some Fees You Have To Put Up With, But Not Bank Charges

Jul.17, 2009 in Uncategorized ok, so most of us didn’t like the list that was on here earlier, so i composed one of my own (with the help of some coworkers). agree, disagree, or go back to work?in no particular order… eva mendes (personal #1) scarlett johanessen drew barrymore kate hudson jennifer aniston ashley judd charlize theron hillary swank eva longoria diane keaton halle berry naomi watts kelly clarkson faith hill katie couric tyra banks giselle budchen mia hamm jenny finch jenny mcarth

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40 hot female celebs, athletes, singers, whatever…new list! What do you think?

  Image by biofriendly There are many different kinds of pollution, some being more obvious than others of course.  For example, when I’m sitting in traffic heading over the 405 freeway into Los Angeles, air pollution and smog are pretty obvious pollution.  When I pass by the LA River and see trash piling up along its banks or graffiti along the walls, that’s another obvious form of pollution.  When I go down to the pier and see plastic bottles, paper, cans, plastic bags, etc. floating

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This isn’t exactly shocking, but it’s still amusing that a major beltway “ideological” group managed to get caught red-handed trying to prostitute itself: The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay. For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors

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"Mr. Smith, Tear Down This Website"

Source: The Energy ReportThe outlook for oil seems to be brightening amid scant new reserve discoveries and declining reserves at the world’s large oil fields. “We believe we’re in a fundamentally positive market for oil in the 21st century,” says Art Smith, president of Triple Double Advisors, who anticipates oil moving back into the three-digit price range within three to five years. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, the 35-year veteran of oil analysis shares his knowl

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Art Smith Believes in the Long-Term Bull Case for Oil

“Those who tell you of trade-unions bent on raising wages by moral suasion alone are like people who tell you of tigers that live on oranges.” – Henry George, 1891 From colonial times, trade unionists found the going difficult in North America. There was no prevailing ideology of “working-class solidarity,” and unions were far from respectable; in fact, they had a well-earned reputation for being antisocial, even criminal. FULL ARTICLE

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A History of Labor Unions from Colonial Times to 2009

He writes that in order to cite the CBO criticism of the Democrats’ health care reform proposals, one must do some combination of the following: a) Support, as the CBO says you should, the eradication of the tax exclusion that protects employer-based health-care insurance; b) Support, as Lewin and Commonwealth say you should, a public insurance option that can bargain at Medicare’s rates; c) Support, as the Office of Management and Budget and every health-care wonk in town says you should, one of the various policies floating around to give MedPAC authority to continually reform and modernize Medicare; d) Support some form of aggressive cost-sharing that would make people extremely angry because it will save money by reducing their access to health-care services; e) Support comparative effectiveness review that can judge not only the effectiveness but also the cost-effectiveness of various treatments, and give the federal government authority to use that data when deciding reimbursement rates. I pick (a), (d), and (e)*

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Taking Ezra Klein’s Health Care Challenge,

Click on graph for larger image in new window. Total housing starts were at 582 thousand (SAAR) in June, up sharply over the last two months from the all time record low in April of 479 thousand (the lowest level since the Census Bureau began tracking housing starts in 1959). Single-family starts were at 470 thousand (SAAR) in June; 31 percent above the record low in January and February (357 thousand)

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Housing Starts increase in June from May