If you’ve read my book Back to the Futures, you know that I have had a lifelong passion for things that go fast. I grew…
Many of you have probably noticed that higher education is having a rough go of it right now. There is a new headline almost every…
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…
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…
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…
In my long career as an agricultural economist, one of the things that I take most pride in may surprise you. I am holding it…
Last week, my department head Sarah A. Low dropped this jewel of a picture off at my office. It was in some old files that…