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Oct 30, 2007
Farm Bills and Food Stamps
Given all the reporting on the many problems with current farm policy that has been done in the past year by publications from across the political spectrum it is baffling how the new farm bill can get passed looking even worse than it did before.
Oct 23, 2007
Misperception Breeds Misallocation
The New York Times recently reported on a study in which people were asked about the most common global causes of death in children under five. Respondents named AIDS and Malaria as the top two, yet the reality is that birth complications, respiratory illness and diarrheal disease are the real offenders.
Oct 09, 2007
Commodities and their Discontents
The American farm bill is perpetuating a deeply broken system that hurts everyone. There is some hope that the subsidies system will be curtailed as the Senate modifies the current version but we have a long way to go before the farm bill does what it is meant to: protect both farmers and those who consume their products.
Oct 01, 2007
Water: Our Greatest Decadence
UNESCO claims that annual funding for the millennium development goal of halving the number of people around the world who lack access to safe drinking water is short by at least $10 billion. Now imagine if we could decrease our bottled water consumption by two-thirds and use the money to bring safe drinking water to the water-scarce regions?