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2011-02-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

World Bank: Food prices at "dangerous levels"

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Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-16 00:29|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Hey, green-freaks: How are those unintended consequences workin' out for ya?

Posted by gorb 2011-02-16 10:48|| 2011-02-16 10:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, QE-freaks: How are those unintended consequences workin' out for ya?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-02-16 10:58|| 2011-02-16 10:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Gaea works in mysterious ways.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-02-16 12:47|| 2011-02-16 12:47|| Front Page Top

#4 "How are those unintended consequences workin' out for ya?"

What makes y'all think they're unintended?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-02-16 13:37|| 2011-02-16 13:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Because nothing ever works out the way liberals want them to?

Posted by gorb 2011-02-16 15:35|| 2011-02-16 15:35|| Front Page Top

#6 From The Bernank's testimony before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission:
The other part, though -- and, again, I just want to say this as strongly as possible -- the reform will be a failure if we could not contemplate the failure of Goldman Sachs. That is, there needs to be a system by which Goldman Sachs will go bankrupt and Goldman Sachs creditors could lose money. If we dont have that, then we might as well treat them as a utility, because thats what they are.
The 'reform' is a failure. Goldman Sachs is not only Too Big To Fail, it's gotten much Bigger in the last 3 years. There is and has been no 'recovery' only a 14% or so prop of the GDP directly from deficit spending & Quantitative Easing.
Rising world food prices are an unintended consequence of the government's efforts to prop up Pig Men like Goldman Sachs, the cost be damned.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-16 15:46|| 2011-02-16 15:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Wheat is projected to be a national make or break for many countries. Check out these buys: note Egypt, Iraq, South Asia and Oceania.

Countries that can't buy wheat are going to be Rantburg headlines tomorrow.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-02-16 18:18|| 2011-02-16 18:18|| Front Page Top

#8 "unintended consequences" and grid your loins are expressions I have used for years. Neither worked for me when my wife and I would attempt economic discussions. So I have moved on. Now we have the food situation plus the new EPA efforts to over regulate coal. In each case the low income and most of us are hit adversely. The demowhit's must be stopped and the regressive(my new one)liberal.

Posted by Dale 2011-02-16 18:22|| 2011-02-16 18:22|| Front Page Top

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