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Brazil’s World Cup of Sugar Subsidies
The World Cup begins this week in Brazil, and I got to wondering how the world would react if the Brazilian...
Chuck MuthJune 10, 2014 -
As Goes Tanzania, So Goes U.S. Sugar Industry?
Critics of the U.S. sugar program of limited tariffs and import quotas can get a look at the future if their...
Chuck MuthJune 6, 2014 -
Seeking a Global Solution in Sugar Trade Policy
(by Tom Giovanetti) – As you bit the ears off of that chocolate bunny this past Easter, it probably didn’t occur to...
Chuck MuthMay 28, 2014 -
India’s 32-Percent Solution to Subsidy Addiction
When you take away an addict’s drug of choice, painful withdrawal symptoms naturally follow. Thus is the case with refiners in...
Chuck MuthMay 20, 2014 -
THE DOMINO EFFECT: What Foreign Sugar Producers have in Common with Cold War Communists
“The domino theory,” explains Wikipedia, “was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state...
Chuck MuthMay 12, 2014 -
A sugary-sweet lesson on consumer freedom
(By Jim Martin) – Liberals’ latest assault on consumer freedom could soon target the packet of sugar you put in your...
Chuck MuthMay 3, 2014 -
Mother Nature Attacking Her Sweet Tooth
The most outspoken opponents of the U.S. sugar program are of a mind that it doesn’t matter if the U.S. is...
Chuck MuthApril 28, 2014 -
The Candy Man who Cried Wolf
While sugar and candy go together like peas and carrots, Big Candy and Big Sugar, as industries, go together more like...
Chuck MuthApril 9, 2014 -
Schizophrenic Sugar Critics
Like Marco Polo, critics of U.S. sugar policies are all over the map. First they claim and complain that the cost...
Chuck MuthMarch 25, 2014 -
Unstable Crop Market behind Skyrocketing Food Costs
While candy-makers have steadily increased the price of their products in recent years, the reality is that food prices across the...
Chuck MuthMarch 19, 2014
