The worst day ever was made ok...thanks to taking shots with Kristin.
"Oh to hell with it..." LOL. If I survive tomorrow I will be pleasantly surprised.
Jun 17, 2011
Jun 14, 2011
Food Crisis
The problem? "The more the price of food commodities increases, the more money pours into the sector, and the higher prices rise. Indeed, from 2003 to 2008, the volume of index fund speculation increased by 1,900 percent. ...
The average [North] American, who spends roughly 8 to 12 percent of her weekly paycheck on food, did not immediately feel the crunch of rising costs. But for the roughly 2-billion people across the world who spend more than 50 percent of their income on food, the effects have been staggering: 250 million people joined the ranks of the hungry in 2008, bringing the total of the world's 'food insecure' to a peak of 1 billion -- a number never seen before."
A potential solution? A ban on long-only trading in food commodities for investment banks. Meanwhile... "the index funds continue to prosper, the bankers pocket the profits, and the world's poor teeter on the brink of starvation." ~Read the Foreign Policy article here.
The average [North] American, who spends roughly 8 to 12 percent of her weekly paycheck on food, did not immediately feel the crunch of rising costs. But for the roughly 2-billion people across the world who spend more than 50 percent of their income on food, the effects have been staggering: 250 million people joined the ranks of the hungry in 2008, bringing the total of the world's 'food insecure' to a peak of 1 billion -- a number never seen before."
A potential solution? A ban on long-only trading in food commodities for investment banks. Meanwhile... "the index funds continue to prosper, the bankers pocket the profits, and the world's poor teeter on the brink of starvation." ~Read the Foreign Policy article here.
Jun 13, 2011
中文 Class
This is an example of how overwhelmed we all are ("we" being me and the other 7 students in Chinese for 6 hours per day).
Steven (Chinese TA): Let's go over the sentence patterns.
Lauren (Classmate): Glory to God in the highest.
Haha..... I guess you had to have been there. *sigh*
Steven (Chinese TA): Let's go over the sentence patterns.
Lauren (Classmate): Glory to God in the highest.
Haha..... I guess you had to have been there. *sigh*
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