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The Iowa Floods Will Change Agriculture Forever

“Iowa in 2008 will be an even slower-motion disaster than Hurricane Katrina in 2005.” — James Howard Kunstler, Whiskey & Gunpowder by James Howard Kunstler Baltimore and Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – (TFN): A catastrophe for Iowa farmers will not be just a catastrophe for Midwestern Americans. In the Iowa flooding, we’ll see [...]

Financial Predictions: Why you should ignore them

The world was supposed to be out of oil by 1952, natural gas was to have run out by 1984, gold by 1981. And what happened to the ozone shield and global cooling? Their lousy track record makes your local weatherman look like a genius. So why listen to scientist and resource forecasters at all? By [...]