World trade problems have the global economy in a tailspin again. Could we maybe look back into ancient history for a key to local farming versus global commodity agri-business conflict? Maybe Adult Swim could bring back Sherman and Peabody? I think Jay Ward did an episode on the Incan corn based empire? The Incan system worked like a federal reserve, with store houses of corn, rather than storehouses of electronic/imaginary currency.   more »