Juggling Dynamite

This documentary covers a lot of the issues and risks around genetically modified foods. I do not accept that GMO is the source of all allergies and ill health in North America–we have plenty of poor diet and inactivity to share that blame. But I do think it is critical that there be consumer education aided by transparency and clear labeling in this area so that we can make informed decisions on what we ingest. The for-profit food, drug and chemical industries cannot continue to call the shots about public health.

Here is a direct link.

Political comedian Bill Maher weighed in on Monsanto and GMOs on the June 22 2012 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher – panel included Nick Gillespie, Rachel Maddow, Mort Zuckerman & Mark Ruffalo. Here is a direct link.

Everyone can see that most risk markets are on fire today. The only question is how long it will take before the structure burns to the ground once more? Some are content (or willfully blind) playing Russian roulette, staying inside until the roof implodes; others feel safer waiting outside. Either way, it is a very uneasy time for thinking people. As for how long prices can burn out of control…one guess is as uncertain as the next.

DoubleLine Capital’s Jeff Gundlach says “Everything begins and ends with quantitative easing”. Here is a direct link.

But to think that central banks now have some control over the raging fire they have fanned, is dangerously naive and ignores 100 years of market history where vicious loss cycles have been a recurring theme notwithstanding an interventionist Federal Reserve since 1913.

Bloomberg visits a cluster of aquapods off the Pacific coast of Mexico, where the future of ocean farming may rest inside steel cages. Here is a direct link.