Tue 2008-07-22 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Sirens
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Sirens; Food processor Smithfield; corn versus hogs arbitrage
corn Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
corn versus hogs arbitrage (1); David Corn (2).
Thu 2008-07-10 00:00 EDT
AlterNet: 'Foreclosure Phil' Gramm: How John McCain's Closest Economic Advisor Helped Engineer the Morgage Crisis
AlterNet: 'Forclosure Phil' Gramm: How John McCain's Closest Economic Advisor Helped Engineer the Mortgage Crisis; Nomi Prins and David Corn
AlterNet; Foreclosure Phil; Gramm; John McCain's Closest Economic Advisor Helped Engineer; Morgage Crisis.
Fri 2008-07-04 00:00 EDT
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis | Environment | The Guardian
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis, by Aditya Chakrabortty | Environment | The Guardian; Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% says confidential World Bank report; report suppressed to avoid embarassing President George Bush; over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
biofuel caused food crisis; environment; Guardian; Secret Report.
Fri 2008-05-30 00:00 EDT
Foreclosure Phil
by David Corn; McCain economic advisor, anti-regulatory crusader, former Senator Phil Gramm helped enable subprime debacle