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The Transformation of Banking

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There is a scene in the Parable of the Talents in which the returned master berates the shabbiest of his three servants. Discovering that he had buried his seed capital in the ground, the master says: “You should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.” The servant is then thrown outside “into the darkness,” where he faces “weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

 
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Corn Heist

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The wisdom of diverting high protein food to the production of transportation fuel has always eluded me.  Several years ago I found myself a lone voice questioning corn-based ethanol.  Even after several studies that demonstrate the inefficiencies of ethanol production in general and corn-based ethanol in particular, we are still shoveling corn into our gas tanks.

 
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Bad Economy? Yeah Right - Not in the Farming Heartland

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While I believe in the long term thesis in farming (indeed I said in 2007-2008 farmland would probably be the best long term i.e. decades long, investment) year over year gains of 40% in Nebraska and 31% in Iowa just are not sustainable.  Easy money needs to find a home in something, and this time around farmland is one of them - long time readers will now the horde of investment money coming into this space via pension funds and the like.

 
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Why Capitalism Is Worth Defending

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As Obama demonizes the wealthy and pitches a dozen plans to restructure the economy, opponents of this program need a reminder of what exactly we’re fighting for. We are resisting bureaucracy, central planning, and encroachments on our freedom and communities. Yet this does not get to the heart of the matter. We are not only an opposition movement, countering the president and his partisans’ agenda. More fundamentally, we stand in defense of the greatest engine of material prosperity in human history, the fount of civilization, peace, and modernity: Capitalism.

 
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Can It Be? A Toll Road ETF?

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ETF provider Global X appears to be cranking up its golly-gee-whiz machine with an ETF filing that is right in the wheelhouse of a lot of my posts over the last couple of years.

The filing consists of the following;

Global X FTSE Toll Roads & Ports ETF
Global X FTSE Railroads ETF
Global X Farmland and Timberland ETF
Global X Cement ETF
Global X Advanced Materials ETF

 
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Hold These Funds Forever! Really? Forever?

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There was an article over at Seeking Alpha about a few dividend stocks that the author posits can be held forever. Investing magazines have had cover stories about funds to hold forever for as long as there have been investing magazines.

 
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This Could Be Interesting

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I found a lot of things to tie in to yesterday's post about Investing Where It Rains. Of course choosing to invest where it rains is a theme of sorts, really a subset of a theme. As I've said many times before the big idea here is finding areas where we know money is going to be spent. This can guarantee nothing but money being spent into an area where there is obvious demand creates a good tailwind for long term success.

 
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Best Sources for Summer Produce

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This post is from staff writer Sierra Black. Sierra writes about frugality, sustainable living, and raising children at Childwild.com.

The summer harvest season has finally begun here in Boston. Near my house, Farmers’ markets are popping up, brimming with fresh greens, ripe strawberries, and luscious radishes. Our first CSA share delivery of the season arrived last week. And my garden has started to cough up a few plump berries and herbs.

 
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Risks That Can Derail Your Retirement

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This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He also has a blog, Twittering thing.

 
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AP: Republicans Dodge Farm Subsidy Cuts

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For newer readers let me preface I am apolitical - both parties are doing an excellent job of running the country into the ground and concentrating wealth into fewer and fewer hands.   I got a nice big laugh this morning out of a story on Yahoo Finance titled Republicans Dodge Farm Subsidy Cuts.  The more things change, the more they stay the same despite all the rhetoric.  I posted this piece [Mar 27, 2008: WSJ - Farm Lobby Beats Back Assault on Subsidies] three years ago....

 
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