The Best Investment of Our Time Farmland, says Jim Rogers, since the demand for food is going up, up, up. http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j19.html
Peak Soil Investment: This Quiet Land Grab is Just Beginning By Q1 Publishing 12 Jun 2009 According to the Economist, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and China have been "quietly" buying up more than $20 billion of this asset. It's not oil or natural gas assets though. And it's not the molybdenum they need to build thousands of miles of new pipelines. They're buying up one of my favorite long-term investments, farmland. http://wallstreetpit.com/5019-peak-soil-investment-this-quiet-land-grab-is-just-beginning California's hard times driving people back to the 'Dust Bowl' 14 Jun 2009 Fleeing the Great Depression and a drought unprecedented in American history, a vast wave of Oklahomans and Texans dubbed "Okies" loaded everything they could onto crowded vehicles during the 1930s and headed west for California. Today, in huge numbers, their grandchildren are moving back. Projection: It'll be years before jobs return to much of U.S. 14 Jun 2009 Unlike the labor market collapse that killed millions of U.S. jobs in a matter of months, the nation's return to peak employment will not be nearly as uniform nor as swift. Only six metropolitan areas across the country are expected to regain their pre-recession employment levels by the end of 2009, according to projections from IHS Global Insight, a leading economic forecaster. -- US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline. By Tom Leonard in Flint, Michigan Published: 6:30PM BST 12 Jun 2009 http://tinyurl.com/mpltpo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
