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In The News: A Soda Tax?
Over in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom is toying with the idea of imposing an anti-obesity tax on stores selling foods and beverages containing high-fructose corn syrup. Although I understand what...
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Frightful Fiesta
Taco Bell debuted a new advertisement for their Fiesta platters during the 2008 Superbowl. They are clearly going for the office lunch crowd. The commercial features two cube buddies rushing to a...
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In The News: Corn-utopia
The Wall Street Journal reports that the ever increasing prices of corn farming have led farmers to project this year’s planting estimates at 86 million acres — eight percent less than last year’s...
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In The News: Downsized Economy No Problem for Supersize Master
This article from Bloomberg.com states that “reported August sales [for McDonald's] rose more than some analysts estimated as consumers battered by higher gasoline and grocery bills bought $1 sodas in...
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Price Check
Recent newspaper articles have referred to Whole Foods beginning to earn a bit of a bad reputation as an elitist supermarket, thereby earning the monicker “Whole Paycheck.” Hogwash! I wholeheartedly...
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In The News: Wall Street, Farm Subsidies, and Our Health
The Los Angeles Times published a nifty article tying in the current economic situation, the horrendous farm subsidies (“for the last 60 years or so, the government has subsidized the production of...
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In The News: Lean Times, Leaner Burger
Starting Monday, the double cheeseburger will disappear from McDonald’s dollar menu. It’s not that customers don’t love it — it’s actually the chain’s best-selling $1 item! In its place? The same...
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Numbers Game: Uh-Oh-Nomics
Taking into account inflation, the average price of soda in the United States was _____ percent cheaper in 2009 than in 1978. Vegetables, meanwhile, were _____ percent more expensive. Fruits?...
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Is Agriculture The Next Wall Street?
The economic crash of 2008 forever changed the financial landscape. Consumer confidence sank, investors balked, construction projects around the world halted, and recovery is expected to continue well...
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When “Documentary” Means “Glorification”: CNBC on Coca-Cola
Earlier this week, I caught a rerun of a CNBC documentary (which premiered last November) titled “Coca-Cola: The Real Story Behind The Real Thing”. It comes as no surprise that a channel devoted to...
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