Economic Sense

" Yet today we have only a handful of genetically modified crops, primarily soybeans, corn, canola and cotton. All are commodity crops ...

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2011/08/14/agbiotech-and-combating-climate-change/ Some teasers: "GMOs in the US and in other countries, red...

Based on these numbers, the U.S. has the most progressive tax system in the world by far. The top 10% of earners earn about 33.5% of all inc...

From the report:  http://www.ft.com/cms/af2c4fac-bfc2-11e0-90d5-00144feabdc0.pdf    “the downgrade reflects our view that the effectivenes...

  The Problem with Fair Trade Coffee By Colleen Haight.   Stanford Social Innovation Review Summer 2011 link My field and analytical ...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800911002400 A case of the internalization of negative externalities via technological...

HT to Cafe Hayek, I've been looking for thus data a while.  http://persquaremile.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/the-worlds-population-conce...

HT to Cafe Hayek, I've been looking for this data some time now, and I finally found it. The ramifications in terms of recycling, landfi...

Data scientist positions are outpacing demand growth for statisticians- 'data scientists' are typically more well rounded in terms o...

From Cafe Hayek- a framework for discussing the debt ceiling, the deficit, the financial crisis, recession, & what to do about it: ...

From the Knowledge Problem blog: "If Walmart can leverage their supply chain logistics to bring their low-price model to these markets,...

A great article on commodity market speculation http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/Agsight-No-speculators-No-thanks.html Sent from my ...

" Dr. Beachy asked the subcommittee to consider the unintended consequences of overly stringent regulations of biotech crops. These inc...

A very good piece on the minimum wage and the negative impacts on future income earning opportunities. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001...

Image Source: Mark Perry http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/06/but-at-least-politicians-care-in-theory.html Below is a summar...

 Remember this scene from the Austin Powers movie? A parity of our political leaders discussion of budget cuts and tackling the deficit? ...

"Using the 2004 corn price of $2.06 per bushel as a reference, actual corn prices increased by an average of $1.65 per bushel from 2006...

"Overall then, ethanol has made the transition from an energy sink, to a moderate net energy gain in the 1990s, to a substantial net en...

The best ap I've ever used. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41nyOXpnNXo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Given the recent talk from the department of transportation regarding the possibility of requiring farmers and ranchers to have commercial d...