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Get Rich Slow

Recently, I spent a few days in an old chateau in the countryside of Normandy, France. There is a tiny town about a mile from the chateau, but otherwise, it is a picture of things pastoral – green meadows… cows cropping grass and taking in the sun… a Jacobin farmhouse… miles of farmland all around… Since I’ve been writing and talking about farmland, I had a deeper appreciation for just how useful such land is. Really, I can think of no better asset to own during any kind of financial crisis…

January 22nd, 2009 | Chris Mayer | 2 comments | Continued
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Where was your Money in 2008?

2008 is now in the rear-view mirror, with virtually every investor shouting “Good riddance!” and praying for a better year to come. Forget about making money, just keeping your head above water was an accomplishment over the past twelve months…

January 14th, 2009 | Doug Hornig | 1 comment | Continued
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Fed is Trying to Keep the Money and Credit Moving: Commodities, Food, Oil and Gold

The Fed is trying to keep the money and credit moving. But it is going where it wasn’t supposed to go – into commodities, food, oil and gold. Still, the experts can’t see it. Instead, they read the polls, watch the TV, and come to the wrong conclusion.

May 7th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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Food, Fuel, and Finance: The Crisis of the Three Fs

The grand poobahs of the world’s economy are wringing their hands in worry over the three Fs, each its own kind of crisis: food, fuel, and finance. As usual, it’s the people at the margin (whether lending or with food) that are affected first when surplus turns to scarcity. Despite all the daily signs of abundance here in Australia, let us not forget that there are about four and half billion people on the planet who have little margin for error in their daily lives.

April 14th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
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Increased Energy Prices Slowing Global Economy

Think of the global economy as a system of systems. Food, energy, credit, transportation, information… all these systems are interconnected and interdependent. Energy is what keeps them all connected. As energy prices increase, the connections become stressed and frayed. A world with more expensive energy is a less connected world. When you stop throwing cheap energy at an economy, its total growth slows down.

April 7th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
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