By Heather Somerville
TRACY, Calif. — Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world’s newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming — the world’s oldest industry — with an audacious agenda: to make sure there is enough food for the 10 billion people expected to inhabit the planet by 2100, do it without destroying the world and make a pretty penny along the way.
“In a global economy when you lower the cost of capital and rig resources for insiders, a severe misallocation of capital results. This has been occurring for decades. As a result, we have a world…
“The endurance of the enemy.”
– National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy upon being asked what most surprised him about the Vietnam War
By James Vincent
Researchers testing a real-life human-to-dolphin translator have reported the first successful use of their technology in the wild, with a bottlenose dolphin pointing out a piece o…
CFTC Launches Broad Investigation of Energy and Metals Derivatives
Gold Antitrust Action Committee | 14 May 2013
A top US financial regulator has launched a broad inquiry into the legitimacy of more t…
“As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind – every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.”
~ John Glenn
By Pam Martens
A federal agency tasked with expanding the American dream of home ownership and affordable housing free from discrimination to people of modest means has been quietly moving a chunk of…