Economic Sense

From Drovers/Cattle Network "Using Property Rights Is A Trick Against Biotech Crops" "Some politicians wrap themselves in t...

The only way to truly go green is to efficiently allocate our resources. The economic definition of efficiency is getting the most out of ou...

This is an older article but still interesting: From the Huffington Post A lot if interesting statements in the article, and I believe they...

From ' The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves ' "Bad harvests in Russia and Australia, combined with rising oil prices...

In a basic principles of economics class, students will learn that as resources become scarce, their prices rise to reflect this scarcity.(a...

Below is my attempt to create an animation that depicts a back and forth discussion between two people with two very different perspectives ...

I was having a conversation with someone recently about Sara Lee replacing their High Fructose Corn Syrup ingredient with ‘High Fructose’ ta...

The Spontaneous Order A wealthy class results from satisfying the needs of others, making the middle class lifestyle (homes, cars, technolo...

From the Wall Street Journal : Finance Overhaul Casts Long Shadow on the Plains “Farmer Jim Kreutz uses derivatives to soften the blow shoul...

Does corporate greed put our lives at risk? Some believe so, and as this naïve college student in the 1970’s points out, (see video via YouT...

Family farms like this aren't portrayed well in King Corn or Omnivore's Dilemma. Sustainable Family farms like in this video (some l...

Does the FTC want to make this illegal? Or just tax it out of existence? From the Washington Times "The bureaucracy sees it as a probl...

Once a government pet, BP now a capitalist tool By: Timothy P. Carney Examiner Columnist June 9, 2010 Link “Lobbying records ...

Unexpected support for biotechnology Jun 7, 2010 10:00 AM, By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff ( link ) “Amid all the ya...

In a previous Agweb post I pointed out how new social media technology has allowed farmers and industry advocates to take a stand in...