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  • Ag Boom Is Igniting by Bruce Pile
    When anyone asks Jim Rogers for his best advice nowadays, he says "become a farmer".  He is busy buying up farming operations all over the globe.  It is the farmer, he says, that will be driving the Maseratis of the future, not the growers of creative debt instruments on Wall... More »
    November 17, 2009 • DBA, DBC, SGG
  • Sugar not so sweet? by Edward Rooster
    We think the massive drops in the week ending September 4, 2009 should not have been surprising.  Just a cursory glance online revealed since August that many had misgivings regarding the sharp ascension in sugar futures.  Egged on by news about India's drought and the Diwali holiday,... More »
    September 10, 2009 • SGG, DBA, UNG
  • Sugar: The SWEET Smell of Success (or Excess)? by Edward Rooster
    It's no secret that sugar has attracted a great deal of attention, just look at the headlines and feeds many of us subscribe to, and at the number of impressive articles on this site.  Many on Main Street, USA have learned about how too much rain in Brazil, and not enough in India in recent... More »
    August 25, 2009 • SGG, IPSU, ALEX
  • Leveraged, Inverse and VIX ETFs Grow in July by Don Dion
    A number of leveraged and inverse ETFs attracted capital at a fast clip last month, including ProShares UltraPro Short S&P 500 (SPXU) and iShares DB Gold Short ETN (DGZ). SPXU saw $72 million net flow into the fund and finished July with $69 million in assets. DGZ saw net inflow of $31... More »
    August 14, 2009 • VXX, SPXU, DGZ
  • Sugar Price Explosion? by Bruce Pile
    The price of sugar is starting to garner some attention as it escalates to 20-plus year highs.  There seems to be three major forces converging on sugar right now, any one of which is quite capable of inducing a large runup in prices.  One of these three tsunami waves is the subject of... More »
    August 8, 2009 • IPSU, CZZ, SGG
  • Is Sugar Going To Be The White Gold Of The Post Oil Age? by Bruce Pile
    Corn ethanol's popularity has come and mostly gone in the U.S., but the 60% of global ethanol use that's sugar based is still marching on.  The low net energy problem of corn ethanol (EROEI about 1.3) may be fixed by the cellulosic ethanols being worked on, but meanwhile, the near oil-like... More »
    June 21, 2009 • SGG, CZZ

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