published Feb 23rd 2017, 6:24 am, by Victoria Bateman (Bloomberg View) — Not so long ago economists appeared to rule the world. The globalization reaching into every home was christened the brainchild of neoliberal economics. But when things began to go wrong, starting in 2007, economists took a beating. Now,
©2015 Bloomberg News NM58JC6K50Y1 (Bloomberg) — Wheat traders are suffering from whiplash. Prices swung more than 3 percent on five occasions in the past nine days, the first time that’s happened since 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. A drought spreading over the U.S. plains sent Chicago futures to