This made me check my calendar to see if it’s April 1st:
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will issue an urgent plea to world leaders at a food summit in Rome on Tuesday to immediately suspend trade restrictions, agricultural taxes and other price controls that have helped fuel the highest food prices in 30 years, according to U.N. officials.
(Via the Corner.)
The UN is calling for free markets and lower taxes? Now I’ve seen everything.