Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Be a farmer, make billions

Billionaire farmers raking in farm subsidies (via http://stateofglobe.com)

Our farm system is totally rigged for generally very wealthy (made wealthier with our tax dollars) agribusiness participants. But the Republicans won’t attack this kind of welfare because it benefits constituencies in rural and generally Republican…

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Suggestions from a billionaire: move!



Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum Fund, speaking before the CFA Society of Atlanta on February 6, 2013:



“I am optimistic about states with natural resources. Georgia is rich in agriculture and I am much more optimistic about it than states like Massachusetts and New York. The world is changing away from finance to producers of real goods. Finance is going to be a very difficult place to be in the next 20 to 30 years. Finance is over.”

“Move to the country. Be a tractor dealer or fertilizer salesman. If that’s not for you, open restaurants where there are farms.”