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Trump trade strategy: Big sticks, big bets

Sir Isaac Newton — he of “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” fame — was a polymath who excelled in math, physics, astronomy, alchemy, and theology. And now, if you squint, economics because as his Third Law of Motion suggests, when you push markets one way with ...

President Trump envisions new borders for America

Greenland: Second in a series Now when President Trump throws out buying Greenland, what he means is acquiring control of what is necessary to protect for national security interest rather than specifically statehood. Greenland would be suited for becoming a territory of the U.S. He is also ...

On Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is upon us, that annual holiday wherein we are required by law to express our undying love and devotion to our Significant Others. Failure to comply with this law is punishable by a lengthy banishment to the doghouse. I once pointed out to my wife that this rule is ...

Market Insider Weekly Newsletter

NEWS *Concerns over the Panama Canal have risen, particularly China’s influence on its operations. Soy Transportation Coalition Executive Director Mike Steenhoek said the discussions revolve around the Carter-Torrijos Treaty. “One of the major elements of the treaty is that the Panama ...

Tales of the school bus

There is a time in life when no words strike more fear than, “The bus is coming!” Many were the winter days as we grew up — when all of us kids (six, at the time) thumbed our noses at Mom’s breakfast in exchange for sleep, then stood in the porch like a common street gang in our ...

Rural America has enough problems: Why create new ones?

On Jan. 7, the day after Congress certified Donald J. Trump’s election as the next president of the United States, the U.S. “Border Patrol conducted unannounced raids throughout Bakersfield [CA] ... descending on businesses where day laborers and field workers gather.“ The impact of the ...

President Trump’s new borders envisioned for America

Panama Canal (first in a series) President Trump has been throwing out ideas for the territorial expansion of the U.S. The Panama Canal now connects the Gulf of America to the Pacific Oceans according to newly named Trump nomenclature. He says that we need to reacquire the Panama Canal ...

Market Insider Weekly Newsletter

NEWS U.S. ethanol exports soared to a record 1.72 billion gallons in November 2024, surpassing the previous high of 1.67 billion gallons set in 2018. “It wasn’t always the easiest times for corn producers because commodity prices came down, but that led to ethanol being highly ...

Midwinter chores come calling

During our long, chilly winters — when it’s so cold outside that you wish you had stored your brass monkey someplace warm — a guy has no excuses and no choice but to tackle those indoor chores that he’d put off last summer. Numerous such chores present themselves. Chief among mine ...

An off-kilter Christmas

This Yuletide season has seemed a bit peculiar for my wife and me. Our impression that this was an off-kilter Christmas was mainly due to a summer and fall that passed in a blur of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and doctor’s appointments to treat my tonsil cancer. We were in ...