Last week I highlighted a great piece of Bloomberg reporting on America’s billions-wasted, failed agriculture policy. Since then, the rest of the seven-part series, Recipe for Famine, has been published online. Because Bloomberg did such a poor job of presenting its series, there’s no easy way to locate all the stories. So I’ve taken the [...]
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Normally, a headline like the one above would be a gross exaggeration, and it would almost never appear in a mainstream U.S. publication. But lo and behold, the actual headline of a Bloomberg story by Alan Bjerga only just barely sugarcoats the situation. As it appears online, it’s “Dead Children Linked to Aid Policy in [...]
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