Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Wheat Prices Look Set to Jump. Consider This ETF.

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

As if the Russia-Ukraine war wasn’t enough to raise wheat prices, unusually unfavorable weather conditions—plus dwindling Russian wheat inventories—look set to lift them higher.

Shawn Hackett of the Hackett Money Flow Commodity Report says foul weather could add at least $2 to wheat prices, which recently fetched $5.26 a bushel. Read more here.








Monday, March 3, 2025

FOX Biz: Just like Trump, Hungarian leader Orban wants more babies for his country, offering big incentives

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Earlier this year, Donald Trump announced that he would like Americans to have more babies and pushed forward ways to help that happen. These include expanding access to invitro fertilization and increasing spending in areas with higher marriage and birth rates.

But over the Atlantic, Victor Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister, presented an audacious new idea. He wants to introduce a lifetime income tax exemption for all women who have two or more babies. Read more here.


Victor Orban: European Union, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons




Sunday, February 23, 2025

FOX Business: Expert says President Trump 'is absolutely right' that world needs more energy resources

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Just one month into the job and President Donald Trump is making big changes in government. That includes energy policy, which is vital for the economy.

Trump has to do a couple of things, Bjorn Lomborg, political scientist and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, told FOX Business on the sidelines at the three-day Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London last week.

"We need to get much more energy because we know energy is the lifeblood of making sure you have very prosperous societies… He will be doing that." Read more here.

Photo by Emil Jupin, Copyrighted free use, via Wikimedia Commons