Rice shortage bites

From Cairo to New Delhi to Shanghai, the run on rice is threatening to disrupt worldwide food supplies as much as the scarcity of confidence on Wall Street earlier this year roiled credit markets. Full Story »

Posted by Casey Ramsdell
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Subjects: World, Business
Topics: Global Economy
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Posted by: Posted by Casey Ramsdell - Apr 7, 2008 - 12:54 PM PDT
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Apr 7, 2008 - 1:02 PM PDT

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Jessica Torrez-Riley
3.4
by Jessica Torrez-Riley - Oct. 1, 2008

If you can get through all the data and percentages, you'll probably learn a lot from this article. Well sourced, it tries to make the information easier to grasp by breaking up the issue into several subtopics, but for someone who knows very little market lingo it seemed a bit over my head. Nice headline though.

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Casey Ramsdell
4.0
by Casey Ramsdell - Oct. 1, 2008

This article offers a lot of information and context. It doesn't assume that the reader knows the subject and really explains what the subject at hand is. It has many sources and stats/numbers, which are all backed up.

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