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answer that question, talking to people in the art world. a few years ago, a noted swiss authentication expert raised eyebrows when he said 50% of the paintings circulated in the art world were bad. interestingly enough, it s the the late thomas hogan said 50%. i think it is lower than that. and the figure that i arrived at with an expert who is working in this field is probably in the upper teens to the mid-20 s. maybe one in five paintings in the art world are fakes because there is so much money to be made. art is a $60 billion industry a year. famous line from willy sutton, why do you rob banks, because that s where the money is, there are forgers now that are pumping out forgeries into the market. so gabrielle long, one of the great characters, i find, in any of the books that i read, how
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Cocomiel is importing green coffee, honey and other products to the United States. Courtesy photo.
A relatively new brand with deep roots in the coffee sustainability movement called Cocomiel (styled as “CocoMiel”) has announced its United States nationwide launch, offering single-origin, traceable Guatemalan green coffee alongside unfiltered honey.
Cocomiel is one of the numerous progressive undertakings in the career of Bill Fishbein, an original founder of Rhode Island’s Coffee Exchange, co-founder of the pioneering nonprofit Coffee Kids and later founder and current director of The Coffee Trust, a New Mexico and Guatemala-based nonprofit that helps improve agricultural practices and incomes among indigenous farmers.