If you had $53 trillion, what would it look like? Major airline merger…what “the new Delta” means for your money. China and Dubai join forces…how the new partners plan to invest. Retail sales surprise on the upside…but all that glitters is not gold in the latest commerce report. Plus, your tax-day overtime report… four reasons not to raise the capital gains tax.

As commodity markets become more mainstream for investors its interesting to know that energy and food shortages may very well come hand in hand. Here is a recent column that my collegue Kevin Kerr wrote for Outstanding Investments, it sheds a little bit of light on the situation.