Farm Prices and the Dollar: Can't the Washington Post Discuss the Relationship?

Around a decade ago, I was talking with a staffer of the Senate Commerce Committee about infrastructure. I gave a list of potential projects, including trains. He interrupted me and said that they don't talk about trains there.

I asked if I was hearing him correctly. He explained that trains were a divisive issue among committee members, so there was an informal agreement that they simply wouldn't bring them up. I wonder if there is the same situation with regards to the impact of currency va...