Food shortages, food riots and skyrocketing food prices: the global food crisis has turned into one of the big stories of 2008. Not to fear: behind every headline and cover story lurks an expert—usually an economist—with a list of “promising solutions.”
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually [...]

Last Wednesday, Gideon Gono - Zimbabwe’s equivalent of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - issued a $100 billion note.
What can you buy for $100 billion in Zimbabwe? Not quite one loaf of bread.
Zimbabwe is experiencing 12,500,000% inflation - 12.5 million percent. How does inflation get this far out of control? Who can be blamed for [...]