The Day After The Dollar Crashes (May be disturbing to some)

In The Day After the Dollar Crashes, Vickers presents a possible 14 day time line for the crash of the U.S. dollar and the subsequent collapse of global markets.

Livestock Disease Fuels Food Concerns

A fast-spreading livestock disease in North Korea threatens to aggravate the chronic food shortage in the reclusive country, where oxen are key to farm production.

More than 10,000 oxen, cows, and pigs have been infected in the outbreak of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease, and thousands have already died, North Korea’s official news agency said in a statement last week.  Read more.