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...past year. From its peak of $145 in July 2008, the price of a barrel of crude plummeted to about $35 in January before rebounding to almost $70 this summer. Some analysts deny that futures-trading has driven the swings, noting that commodity-price volatility is a normal by-product of difficult economic times...
Meanwhile, the advertisers who are loath to pay for banner ads at websites have shown interest in, as they say, more "integrated" forms of product-plugging. Some news sites sell companies "sponsored content" mentioning their products, while independent blogs collect payoffs for posts - positive ones only, please - about merchandise. (Where did I learn about that? From the New York Times, which had to report the story without sponsorship from Healthy Choice...
...they won't. Yes, news audiences will have to recognize that "free" information may mean more sponsorships and piper payers calling the tune. But journalists will have to accept that some members of our audience are, in fact, willing to make that trade-off, just as they live with product placement in movies...
...1970s. He displays a long row of grapevines with thick trunks, and papers from the Ottoman era that he says prove his family has farmed the land for 150 years. He can no longer sell much of his produce because the Israeli government requires him to label it PRODUCT OF ISRAEL and the Palestinian Authority forbids that. But he can't afford to leave the fields fallow - and open to Israeli confiscation. Three Sarras brothers and a cousin tend the fields under the constant surveillance of video cameras at the edge of a nearby settlement. They complain that settlers from...
This line of reasoning is most closely identified with Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and the current chairwoman of the congressionally appointed committee overseeing the Treasury's bailout efforts. In a 2007 article in the journal Democracy, Warren argued for what she called a Financial Product Safety Commission. But the idea isn't exclusive to her. Canada, which did not suffer the subprime woes of its southern neighbor, created a consumer financial agency in 2001. Australia and the Netherlands have taken the more ambitious step of consolidating all consumer and market oversight under one financial regulator while leaving soundness...