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...result of rising energy costs, increasing demand from countries like China and India, and escalating production of biofuels, food prices have on average increased by 45 percent since 2006, according to figures compiled by the International Monetary Fund...
...candidate with whom they can empathize—who has experienced their daughter’s premature pregnancy or struggled along with the help of food stamps—than by extraordinary powers of leadership or experiences. The campaigns have been more than happy to indulge this demand. Take Hillary Clinton, who, even as she insisted on her own experience, felt compelled to invent a little Bosnian sniper fire and take an uncharacteristic shot of Crown Royal, rather than use the language of the political elite she inhabits.This tension seems most interesting in the case of Sen. Obama; after...
MySpace's vast following makes it a likely leader in the on-demand music-streaming market. "This makes MySpace cool again in some ways," notes Jupiter Research's David Card, who adds that it may even lure new members to the site. But the free-music model looks like it may end up costing MySpace and other providers more than they had originally bargained: In an agreement announced Sept. 23, the music industry said it planned to adopt a sliding fee scale for free-music-streaming sites; instead of the 9.1 cents per song that is currently paid to songwriters...
...about this. Starving artists have existed since time immemorial. But starving i-bankers? This seems like adding insult to injury. It was fine for us artists to starve—it was our comeuppance for preferring creative writing to econometrics. Surely our future-minded friends who slaved away on demand curves do not deserve to suffer the same fate. Yet as the economy crumbles, it seems terrifyingly more and more likely that we will all be in the same boat...
...price of oil futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)–the largest coordinated global market for futures trading in commodities–has more than tripled. This major increase in fuel costs has had a seriously detrimental effect on the American economy, causing enormous demand destruction and adversely affecting GDP growth. But despite the passionate advocacy of public figures such as Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska and House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, offshore drilling provides little windfall: drilling will have a minimal, if any, effect on gasoline prices in the near future. According...