Jul 162012

Corn

For the last few months, I have been following corn (social media joke avoided). Over that period I have garnered both a bushel of interesting facts (corn pun not avoided), and an attitude. See below.

First, regarding corn…

  • In 2010, we planted 88.6 million acres of corn
  • In 2011, we planted 92.9 million acres of corn
  • In 2012, we planted 96.4 million acres of corn,  the most since 1937
An Analysis of Consumer Climate Interest Rates  

 

Since bottoming-out in late 2009, consumer climate interest rates, F8, has risen about 4% in three years. The DCI (Dead Cattle Index), and DLI (Dry Lightning Index) have also both risen by 2% in the same period, not too impressive, until you compare that to S&M (Scams and Misinformation Index) which has cratered by 60% during the same period. “A disturbing market pattern,” says our guest today, F.M. Train-Wrecks of Apathy Inc. “Add in the Colorado fires, the deluge in Florida, multistate derechos, sea level rise, the sweat-box summer, and we have a perfect storm leading to higher climate interest rates among consumers. F8 appears to be staging a breakout that is approaching its all time high of November of 2005,” says Train-Wrecks.

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