Tagged financial economy

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Food for Thoughtlessness

Food Crisis. Food Shortage. Why? Global Warming, like terrorism, is a catch-all excuse for many things. Yes, more grain to biofuel is likely…but so suddenly and overwhelming that it is causing a global food shortage? How many new biodiesels are there now compared to just two years ago? No doubt there has been draught in…

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The Investment Vampires

Vampires know a good thing when they see it. Or taste it. The lore on mythic bloodsuckers often has vampires nursing a live subject, drawing blood over and over again without killing the victim. It’s symbiotic…or, more precisely, parasitic. Sounds like an investment banker. See, it’s kinda funny (funny strange, not ha-ha) to think about…

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Econ 101: Put Options

Put Options (see article below). I read last week in the NY Times that there is a put option available to managers of large investment funds that allowed some to place bets as far back as two years ago…bets that mortgage securities would fall precipitously. Some, like the dude profiled for the article, made huge…