Senators, Prime Ministers – and Texas Teachers’ CIO – Attend Bilderberg Conference

This is an Ask Catherine excerpt from Friday, January 20th. Where she discusses the benefits and short falls of using large and small financial Institutions. …

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By Tom Philpott The Gates Foundation has emerged as a kind of de facto USDA for Africa: a deep-pocketed funder with a focus on agriculture, in a continent that has seen ag-research funding plunge over