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Commodities markets

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Commodities markets

Review: Rosewood Restrictions Riled U.S. Guitar Makers

In 2017, a bizarre amendment to an international treaty threw American guitar makers into a panic.

Mike Riggs | 8.12.2022 6:30 AM

Gold and Silver American Eagle Coins

Supreme Court

The CFTC Velociraptor Has Escaped the Fence That Dodd–Frank Built to Contain It

“Can an independent federal agency that is supposed to regulate commodity futures assert power over every single purchase or sale of a commodity?”

Adi Dynar | 4.8.2020 10:05 AM

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Julian Simon

Resources Are Almost 5 Times as Abundant as They Were in 1980

New Simon Abundance Index elegantly refutes primitive zero-sum intuitions with respect to population and resource availability trends.

Ronald Bailey | 12.4.2018 12:40 PM

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Marijuana

Even Where Weed Is Legal, Government Regulation Makes Advertising It a Nightmare

"You can't post pictures of buds. You can't post pictures of selfies of a bong hit."

Kayla Stetzel | 5.4.2018 5:01 PM

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Economic Growth

Changes in Commodities Prices Since 1960 Show a Richer World

The World Bank recently updated the "Pink Sheet."

Marian Tupy | 1.24.2017 7:00 AM

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Rare Earth

China's Rare Earth Minerals Mercantilism Totally Fails: I Told You So Six Years Ago

Wall Street Journal has nice op-ed on China's rare earth bust.

Ronald Bailey | 7.25.2016 12:05 PM

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Economic Growth

Humans Innovate Their Way Out of Scarcity

Decline in commodities prices since the 1960s illustrates the enduring wisdom of Julian Simon

Marian Tupy | 1.12.2016 7:00 AM

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Commodities markets

$20 Oil Soon? Resource Depletionists Go Hide Your Heads in Shame!

How low can the slide downward from the peak of the most recent commodity super-cycle go?

Ronald Bailey | 1.11.2016 4:43 PM

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Oil prices

Oil Price Super-Cycle Collapse: Party Like It's 1998?

Never bet against human ingenuity operating in free markets.

Ronald Bailey | 1.7.2016 11:03 AM

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Famine

What Global Food Crisis?: Ronald Bailey's Wall Street Journal Review of The Reproach of Hunger

Neo-Malthusians still get it wrong: Markets and science will feed 9 billion if not blocked.

Ronald Bailey | 10.19.2015 11:19 AM

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Peak oil

Oil Prices to Fall to $20 Per Barrel?

Surprise: Oil production did not peak on Thanksgiving Day 2005

Ronald Bailey | 9.11.2015 11:03 AM

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The End of Doom

Venessa Hughes of Buffalo, NY Hates The End of Doom, But You Might Like It

Library Journal reviews my new book, published today.

Ronald Bailey | 7.21.2015 10:06 AM

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Policy

Mistaking Peak Prices for "Peak Everything"

Economic Super-cycles and Falling Commodity Prices

Ronald Bailey | 3.13.2015 1:30 PM

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Policy

Lawsuit Against USDA Says Authoritarian Cherry Board Is the Pits

A lawsuit shines a light on a USDA-created board that controls supply, says you can't sell tart cherries without board permission.

Baylen Linnekin | 7.12.2014 8:00 AM

Policy

Gold Heading for Worst Two-Day Drop in Decades

At one pointed dropped $30 in minutes

Reason Staff | 4.15.2013 11:48 AM

Policy

Goldman Sachs Fined for Failing to Block Trade

Will pay $1.5 million for trader who hid $8.3 billion position

Reason Staff | 12.7.2012 7:00 PM

Economics

Milk May Hit Record Highs

Other commodities have hit record highs already recently

Reason Staff | 10.8.2012 10:12 AM

Economics

Gold at Six-Month High

Hope for a third round of stimulus spending

Reason Staff | 9.7.2012 5:45 PM

Policy

Gold, Silver Prices Rise

Investors fear Ben Bernanke will cause inflation.

Reason Staff | 8.31.2012 7:15 PM

Economics

Gold Value Reaches Four-Month High

Twenty-nine of 35 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect prices to rise next week.

Reason Staff | 8.24.2012 4:37 PM

Economics

Peregrine CEO Indicted for Lying to Regulators

Move follows botched suicide attempt, confession of bilking customers.

Reason Staff | 8.13.2012 9:23 PM

Politics

How Will Obama Protect Us From Onion Speculators?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.23.2012 12:09 PM

Policy

Silver Markets Manipulated? Or, Hunt Brothers, Where Are You Now?

Brian Doherty | 3.7.2011 12:05 PM

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