TISPodcast TIS Podcast #9 – Gun Violence, Drought, Marijuana, Chik Fil-A, Red Rain in India, All Presidents related plus music from Jessie Ventura and interviews with Sarah Silverman, Frank Stallone, Jessie Ventura and Fred “The Hammer” Williamson...

TheEconomicCollapse As you read this, the United States is experiencing the worst drought it has seen 38 major wildfires are ripping across the central and western United States.  The brutal wildfires in Oklahoma have been so bad...

Yes, we’ve been worried about what the drought ravaging the Mid-Western United States has done to the environment, and to volatile commodities prices. But for days (weeks even) we’ve been asking ourselves a horrific question — what...

The drought in the American Midwest has sent corn prices soaring. And this is a very worrisome sign for Chinese pork prices. Societe Generale analysts Michel Martinez, Wei Yao, and Jaroslaw Janecki write that nearly 90 percent...

Using the word “disaster” is not an over-exaggeration to describe the drought in the Midwest, says Scott Shellady, the commodities trader who sports the famous cow-print jacket at the Chicago Board of Trade. A heatwave and a...

First it was a warm winter. Then a dry spring. And now this. The U.S. drought monitor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln compiles maps showing precisely such an evolution. We’ve produced the aforementioned evolution for 2012 here,...

Inspired by The Bonddad Blog noodling around with charts, here’s a really simple explanation of what happened in the great drought of 1988, which the current farmbelt drought is being compared to. The green line is year-over-year...

The farmbelt drought we’ve been writing about has exploded into the media, as it lead as the top story tonight on the NBC Nightly News (via @ivanthek). In the report: NBC’s Brian Williams noting that Governor Pat...

If the weather stays hot and dry this summer, this is going to mushroom into a huge story. First, the drought is horrible. It’s being called the worst since 1988t in almost no part. Here’s the latest...

Corn, soybean and wheat prices have soared lately due to poor crop estimates amid extreme drought conditions in 26 states. Let’s take a look at those conditions, followed by charts of agricultural commodities The Atlantic Wire reports...