With globalization and the invasion of information technology in our lives, postal services nowadays increasingly serve the flow of
global commodities rather than personal communication, which in turn vanished into the digital realm.
If anything should be clear from the bubbles of recent years, the greatest risks are not when prices are depressed, the economy is weak, and investors are frightened, but
rather when prices are elevated and an unendingly positive outlook for technology, or housing, or
global growth, or private equity, or emerging markets, or
commodities seems all but certain.
He notes, «mainstream supermarket coffees generally fail to provide much option for those of us who want to recognize and reward coffee growers as our colleagues
rather than exploit them as unacknowledged drones in the vast
global commodity hive.»