Worldwide stocks of rice are at a 25-year low, causing quiet alarm around the globe.

India, the world’s second largest rice producer, is seeking to avoid reliance on other countries for rice by banning the export of all non-basmati rice and raising the price of basmati to $1200/ton.
The hoped for result? Inflation will ease and rice […]

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Over 45 million Americans don’t have health care, and Oregon’s doing something about it.
Oregon (and Portland) is getting some international press for a Las Vegas-style solution to the worsening health care crisis, especially acute in Oregon: resorting to a lottery to provide health care to a small percentage of those in need.

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