Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on June 24th, 2012

The Senate passed the pork laden Farm Bill, the House has tabled it, for now. So it can vote on the pork laden Transportation Bill.

How is this for a fishing outing? He caught a 300 pound gar.

Increase in barriers to trade. Protectionism is always a threat when local economies go south. We don’t need any trade wars, or currency devaluation wars. In the US, we ought to cut taxes, strengthen the dollar, and cut government spending.

Finally, someone not tooting the horn of cellulose to fuel cars. Ethanol shouldn’t be subsidized.

The leading causes of death in the last 100 years. Sorry for that morbid stat on a Sunday morning. You are more likely to die from cancer or heart disease than anything else.

Drones on the farm? Or Not. ($LE_F)

Some real stats get out there. Coal inventory at Chinese port at all time high.

Know your cuts of beef.

Are newspapers fading?

Climate models fail test. Junk science that global warming it is.

Dodd-Frank was a waste of time.

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