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Looking UP: Vertical Farming

By Yasmin Greenfield Metin This rise in population will need an area the size of Brazil in order to feed everybody if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. By the year 2050 it is expected that the human population will increase by 3 billion and nearly 80% of the earth’s population will [...]

Davutoglu Relations

In many respects 2011 has certainly been a good year for Turkey. BN talked to its foriegn Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, who is one of the leading architects for the prosperity the country is enjoying. Turkey by no means is a country which is easy to run. It is a country where is domestic policy and [...]

One Market, Two Visions: Boeing 787 and Airbus A350

At the Farnborough International Airshow in July 2010, one of the most politically strained battles between North America and Europe resurfaced with much at stake. Boeing, whose credibility has taken a battering since 2000 after the failed 747-X and Sonic Cruiser projects, unveiled its newest passenger aircraft for fifteen years.   The 787, named the [...]

Volatility, Vulnerability and Vigilance

By J. Walker Smith, Executive Chairman, The Futures Company By a different measure of daily movement in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the month of August 2011 was the tenth most volatile month in the U.S. stock market in the past 75 years. Volatility has made a comeback as the backdrop to everyday life. The [...]