Another year has gushed through the culvert of time, leaving behind a scoured gully along with some unexpected and pleasant flotsam. The year 2025 began with my wife and I watching the famous ball drop in Times Square. Not in person, of course. We viewed it on TV, awakening from our ...
NEWS *NFA has ordered Alggoritmica Portfolio Management LLC (Alggoritmica), an NFA Member commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor in Wilmington, Delaware, to withdraw from, and not reapply for, NFA membership. NFA has also ordered Lino David Flores Hidalgo (Hidalgo), the sole ...
Mark Twain would have loved this. The story goes that Twain, arguably America’s greatest writer and humorist, was the originator of the witticism, ”Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure.” Research, however, confirms that the story — go figure — is itself a lie; Twain didn’t ...
One of Shakespeare’s most famous quotes was, “First thing we do is kill all of the lawyers.” I do not have that level of animosity toward the legal profession but, as I now understand it, what lawyers have to fear most is AI. CNBCs Andrew Ross Sorkin related a story of how when working on ...
This world is moving at break-neck speed … and don’t tell me you haven’t noticed it. Every day I get up and wonder what new development I’ll need to educate myself on just to be able to talk to the young neighbor kid, or what new-fangled doo-dad I’ll need to get just to be able to ...
The collective groan arising from bathroom scales across this great land of ours signals that it’s the feasting season once again. This season kicks off with Thanksgiving, although one could argue that it actually begins with Halloween. Or Labor Day, or the Fourth of July, or Memorial Day, ...
NEWS *On Air Force One, President Donald Trump met with reporters ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. When asked about his telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said agricultural trade was part of the discussion. “I said I’d like you to buy a little faster and ...
To truly experience the Trump tariff rollercoaster, hop on the ear-popping ride American cattlemen, meatpackers, and U.S. beef eaters have been on over the past few months. In mid-August, the White House raised import tariffs on Brazilian beef to 50 percent because, it explained, the nation ...
How deep into an ag crisis farmers think they have fallen depends on a number of things. First off would be how long they have been draining equity and their depletion of working capital. For a slice of farmers, it has already gone on too long and has cut too deep. They have not made money and ...
What is it about a barn? Long, uneven boards with fading red paint, sometimes white, weathered until it’s gray. ’I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.’ Has there ever been a poem as lovely as a barn? May Joyce Kilmer forgive me, but I do believe ...
