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An Agricultural Market Based Defense Against Climate Change’s Threat: Organic Produce Promotion

Agriculture’s Contribution to Climate Change Agriculture reflects 10% of US greenhouse gases (GHGs), less than the 13% attributed to the commercial and residential building sector and 23% for all other industries in 2019.[1] It only comprised 5% of total GDP in 2020.[2] However, any single effort within either of those two larger sectors is muchContinue reading “An Agricultural Market Based Defense Against Climate Change’s Threat: Organic Produce Promotion”

International Free vs Fair Agricultural Trade (2006 Academic Research Paper)

The debate surrounding free trade versus fair trade encompasses a wide array of issues that culminate to manifest a potentially very hostile international trade environment for countries in the developing world. First, this paper will introduce an abbreviated historical account of the emergence of the two trade regimes (Fair Trade and Free Trade), the ensuingContinue reading “International Free vs Fair Agricultural Trade (2006 Academic Research Paper)”

How Brazil’s Industrial Policy Prepared it for Climate Change

The sustainable development of a single country, Brazil, in 2021 is an effort incubated in globalization’s cauldron of interdependent systems. The defining events of the beginning of the 21st century have all been exacerbated by a historic chain reaction of interrelated multi-generational consequences. The implications for how emerging industries and economies in middle- and lower-income countriesContinue reading “How Brazil’s Industrial Policy Prepared it for Climate Change “

AN APPROACH TO EVENT BASED SWING TRADING

Context: April, 2018 I invested in a company I never heard of but I knew enough about both industries in which it operated to believe it was a decent bet. On August 17, 2018, my knowledge of trends within those industries had paid off; $6,445 turned into $11,679. Pretty good for a novice. Beginner’s luck? Nope.Continue reading “AN APPROACH TO EVENT BASED SWING TRADING”

Incorporating Exponentially Escalating Externalities Into Economics

Out of high school I intended to pursue an undergraduate business administration degree to help me become an entrepreneur. However, my multidimensional academic interests didn’t neatly fit into that single discipline. The cultures, values, and status quo of the world around me has long been one that I’ve tried to better understand. A deeply rootedContinue reading “Incorporating Exponentially Escalating Externalities Into Economics”

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