I have been hearing a lot these days (Apr ‘08) about the high inflation rate. So is now a good time to buy land as a hedge against inflation or should we wait for the inevitable crash from these boom time realty prices and then swoop in to buy cheap.. like the great deals available in the US markets. (more…)

Is rice going the route of gold..are there going to be riots in asian countries.. are there going to be similiar happenings to the Bengal Famines in the 1940s on a smaller scale though.

Now looks like Sams club in the US is limiting the number of bags of rice a customer can buy at a time to 4.
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Very interesting article in NY Times about Pentagon actually being the puppet master behind US TV analysts on CNN, Fox, ABC,..

Not a real surprise to anybody who watched these infotainment being branded as objective news. But what surprises me is that ..isn’t this what BBC does? Isn’t BBC owned by the British Foreign Office (. What makes people think that BBC analysts are objective in their framing of news if they are owned by the Foreign Office of Britain).
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Will this be enough to cool the inflation in India?…we will have to wait and watch.
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This chilling article from Bloomberg…reason enough to stock up on rice.. nearly 70+ percent of the caloric intake of asia unlike the puny 3% in the US.. (more…)

This from the WaPo. Bisphenol found in plastic products seems to cause cancer in folks. Check out the Born Free bottles for your infants feeding bottles to be on the safe side. Still they seem to claim that the evidence is not in black and white… so some more studies need so that 100% of the population have it! (more…)