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Floyd Mann is a Portland-based Web Developer. Married into a family that was divided by the Iron Curtain, Floyd has witnessed firsthand how well-regulated markets provide the best opportunities for societies and individuals to thrive. He is a voracious reader of history, journalism and journalistic fiction and runs a popular bread-baking website, The Fresh Loaf.

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Andrew Sullivan
The Atlantic
Christian Science Monitor
Christopher Hitchens
David Brooks
The Economist - Correspondent's Diary
Melvyn Bragg - In Our Time
Peggy Noonan
The New Republic
Wall Street Journal MarketBeat Blog

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Recent Posts

May 9, 2008 - Street violence and frozen chicken
May 1, 2008 - The Global Food Crisis as a Monetary Phenomenon
Apr 9, 2008 - John Hope Bryant on the Silver Rights Movement
Mar 17, 2008 - The Limits of Microfinance
Jan 24, 2008 - Bill Gates Calls for "Creative Capitalism" to Aid the Poor
Jan 22, 2008 - World Economic Forum
Jan 18, 2008 - Toy Story
Jan 16, 2008 - Dark Clouds on the Horizon
Jan 16, 2008 - Tesco in Thailand
Jan 15, 2008 - The $1.4 Trillion Question


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Talking about an 'evergreen revolution'

International Herald Tribune - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 05:52
Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine, and with a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for an agricultural revolution - this time a perpetual one.

Stocks advance as oil falls, dollar advances

The Associated Press - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 13:30
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street rallied Monday as oil prices, supported by a stronger dollar, fell back and alleviated some of investors' concerns about accelerating inflation. The Dow Jones industrials gained 130 points....

China quake death toll rises to about 10,000

The Associated Press - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 21:14
CHENGDU, China (AP) -- A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades....

Death toll rises as Lebanon simmers

CNN - Sun, 05/11/2008 - 22:34
At least 44 people have been killed and more than 140 wounded in four days of clashes between pro- and anti-government supporters in Lebanon, according to the war-torn country's Internal Security Forces.

The dollar's dominance called into question

International Herald Tribune - Mon, 05/12/2008 - 14:51
What are the chances that a day of reckoning is coming, when the dollar would be so weak that America would have to play by the rules that apply to every other country?
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