Tag: opioid crisis
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The end of the world, or, how I learned to live with a habitually shrinking PMI
The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) U.S. manufacturing survey was released yesterday and, boy, did it ever raise alarms. Estimations of the ongoing U.S.-China trade war have been on a piecemeal basis up until now: It is common knowledge American soybean farmers are struggling, but calculating the material effects on U.S. business as a whole…
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Khiron (KHRN.V): Why Mexican farmers are converting poppy fields to corn
I have never tried opium. But I suspect I would like it. Derived from the milky sap of the poppy, the Greek poet Homer (800 BC) referred to it as “a drug to quiet all pain and strife”. Opium provides such a delicious euphoric high, that it spawned a recreational market for synthetic opioids, including…