Geopolitical – Week of 11.03.13

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Rhiannon Hoyle Total central-bank gold purchases in the third quarter more than doubled from the second quarter and were almost seven times higher than

By Matthew Weaver The Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University are investigating the yellowing of upward of 40,000 acres of wheat in Umatilla