Jun 09 2008
Discovered at a Private Nightclub in Moscow: Make Money With Black Earth
I was having lunch with my friend and colleague Andrew Mickey, and our conversation turned to a New York Times article about Wall Street hot shots turning to farming.
Yes, it sounds like a pitch for a remake of the Green Acres TV comedy, but this is a high-stakes twist on a global agri-boom.
The current food crisis sees no letting up, creating opportunities for investors accustomed to commodities such as oil, natural gas and metals. As the Times reported, the largest investment funds have already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into wheat, corn and soybeans.
