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The Met is selling art to survive the pandemic. Critics say it's a dangerous precedent. Peggy McGlone and Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post March 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail People sit on the steps during the public reopening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York on Aug. 30, 2020.Photo by Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post. The Metropolitan Museum of Art approved a policy last week that allows proceeds from the sale of works from its collection to be used for salaries and overhead costs associated with the collection's care. The move follows similar actions by other mu...

American art museums wrestle with whether to take advantage of looser rules for deaccessioning.

3/1/2021 By Julie Ingwersen and Mark Weinraub CHICAGO, March 1 (Reuters) - Crop insurance policies that guarantee prices for the 2021 growing season are the highest in seven years for corn and the highest in eight years for soybeans, bolstering expectations for record combined acreage of both crops, analysts said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sets the guarantees, which act as the floor price below which farmers with insurance receive payments, at $4.58 per bushel for corn and $11.87 a bushel for soybeans across most of the U.S. crop belt. The prices reflect the average settle...

(Updates with U.S. trading, adds new analyst quote, changes byline/dateline, previous PARIS/SINGAPORE)By Mark WeinraubCHICAGO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures slid 1.5% on Friday, their second straight day of declines, on a profit-taking setback as warming weather in the United States reduced the threat of damage to the dormant crop, traders said.Corn and soybean futures also weakened, with traders noting a lack of export activity this week even with Chinese buyers back on the market following the Lunar New Year celebrations.

Wednesday's Daily Pulse | 2/17/2021 Florida retailers plead for sales tax collections on e-commerce Florida retailers are urging lawmakers to require out-of-state online retailers to collect and pay sales tax on products sold to Floridians, saying that could only help state retailers, who already must do so. Retailers say it’s not about what Florida gets out of expanding the collections; it’s about Florida companies not having to compete with those who don’t pay Florida’s sales taxes. They said Florida gives a 6-8% advantage to their out-of-state competitors who are told they should...