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The Borrowers Become Servants to the Lenders – Food Crisis Part 6

In our last post in this series, we looked at how benevolent aid became dysfunctional politics and began reshaping the global food system in the 1960s and 70s.  Two significant factors contributed solutions to...
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Global Review – April 2023

Our monthly global review podcast looks at the state of the chaos around the world during the preceding month. Our April Global Review podcast looks at the growing geopolitical conflicts in the shadow of...
food aid

Benevolent Aid Becomes Pragmatic Economics – Food Crisis Part 5

By 1956, food aid accounted for half of all US economic aid throughout the world.  From the 1950s onward, food became a central piece of American aid throughout the world and a foundational element...
modern global food system

How We Ruined the World – Food Crisis Part 4

The end of World War II resulted in the near total destruction of Europe’s powerful nations and the global complex of colonialism they erected over the course of the prior century. It was only...
food supply

How We Saved the World – Food Crisis Part 3

Human civilization’s relationship to food supply has always been a relatively tense one. A delicate balance between food supply and growing population demand marks much of our history. The oldest recorded human history captures...
obesity epidemic

The Lands of Excess – Food Crisis Part 2

While famine rages in one part of the world, in other parts obesity is climbing to record rates. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued reports in 2016 detailing how the US obesity...
food crisis overview

Food Crisis Overview – Part 1

In early 2017, the Secretary General of the United Nations warned that 20 million people were at risk of famine, including 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death (37). In Yemen alone at that...
sudan civil war

Sudan on the Brink

The outbreak of violence this week has brought the world to the brink of a Sudan civil war. Such a conflict poses a risk for a wider regional war in Africa. Deadly fighting broke...
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Global Review – March 2023

Our monthly global review podcast looks at the state of the chaos around the world during the preceding month. Our March Global Review podcast moves from the economic turmoil rolling across the earth to...
the coming economic meltdown

Bank Failures, Government Interventions, and a Dysfunctional Economic System Beginning to Implode (Part 2)

This is part two of this article discussing the coming economic meltdown. You can find part 1 here. Crazy Stupid Ideas That Lead to the Coming Economic Meltdown The father of capitalism, Adam Smith, wrote about...