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Chuck MuthTHE 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 -
Chuck MuthA 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 -
Chuck MuthMother 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 -
Chuck MuthThe 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 -
Chuck MuthSchizophrenic 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 -
Chuck MuthUnstable 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 -
Chuck MuthBrazil Sweetens the Sugar Subsidy Pot
If free market competition spurs competitiveness, then government subsidies clearly spur government subsidization. Thus the recent announcement from the world’s largest...
Chuck MuthMarch 11, 2014 -
Chuck MuthSugar Policy Critic Really Just Hates Sugar
In a recent op-ed published by The Hill, self-proclaimed “food policy writer” James Patterson argued that Congress should repeal the U.S....
Chuck MuthMarch 5, 2014 -
Chuck MuthQuick Hits from the Not-so-Free Market
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated in November that the global glut of sugar for the 2013-14 growing season will jump...
Chuck MuthFebruary 24, 2014