Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream
December, 2012, in the United States of America a real life Monopoly game is being played. The people have NO chance of winning: Watch Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream on PBS. See more from Why Poverty?. “We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the…
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Forget Oil, Worry About Phosphorus
“The following was authored by C. Robert Taylor, Alfa Eminent Scholar and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Auburn University and OCM Senior Economic Fellow and published in the Daily Yonder.” (all charts, graphs and illustrations can be found in the Newsletter archives, October 2010 edition) The world’s agriculture depends on a mineral that is declining in production and is controlled by a cartel of companies. Troubling, ain’t it? Modern farming…
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