One of the best parts of writing my book Back to the Futures has been discovering the unexpected ways it has been used in and…
“Then we heard the high-pitched whir of a snowmobile engine far in the distance. It was like a scene from a World War II movie,…
A few weeks ago, my publishing imprint, Ceres Books, released It’s All Speculation by Tom Hieronymus. It is a collection of Tom’s writings across his…
Last week, my little publishing imprint Ceres Books released a new title—It’s All Speculation by Tom Hieronymus. It is a collection of writings by Tom…
I am very pleased to share this guest blog post from Dwight Sanders of Southern Illinois University. He wrote an extended review of the newly…
In a post last week, I shared one of my favorite in-class exercises on coin-flipping and random walks. A related and equally fun day in…
If you ask students who have taken my commodity price analysis class at the University of Illinois the one thing they remember most, it is…
If you want to get a rise out of a farm audience, just mention USDA reports. To people outside of ag this is mystifying. Why…
As I noted in a post a couple of weeks ago, I took a sabbatical leave from Ohio State for the 1993/94 academic year. I…
It would seem that the answer to the question posed in the title is simple. Futures markets develop because there is a need for the…