Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Trying not to stray too far from our main topic, I'm reading that pension 
funds and big investors are buying into commodities like oil and grains 
(which drives up their price) because they need a place to put money that's 
safe and won't lose from inflation. In fact inflation is the about only 
reason for apparent gains in dollar value of stocks and bonds over the last 
few months or years, and there were no real gains. I can't blame pension 
funds for trying to safeguard peoples' retirement savings; retirement 
security is getting more iffy all the time. I don't call that evil 
speculation. Those whose retirement is in stocks are seeing it gradually 
evaporate. Now a lot of those big RVs are getting parked in the back yard 
permanently.

More on topic, all the reports I'm seeing say food and oil are bound to keep 
going up, and the economy will keep going down. So again, how we learn - or 
don't learn - to live on the land is a make or break issue.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 7/2/2008 at 6:27 AM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>You did a very good job of summarizing the forces at work.  We should
>acknowledge, however, that rising demand and speculation are exacerbating
>the problem of limited supply.  People who do have money are looking for
>places of real value to put it before its value declines more.  For
>example, at the moment, I'm working to trade my 401k for a more secure
>irrigation system.
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
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