I've tracked the trends of King Corn and the Kansas City Royals, particularly the similarities, for the past couple decades.
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Both were content to move sideways during 2025.
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You can tell markets have gone quiet when I dust off my comparison of King Corn and the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball (MLB) team. After sitting at my desk pondering what to write about for a couple days, during which time the Royals were eliminated from playoff contention (again), I was reminded of the previous piece I wrote for Barchart on the subject. As it turns out, it was almost a year ago to the day, September 29, 2024. A key difference is back then the Royals were headed to the playoffs as a wildcard team. I wrote at the time that my son had asked if the 10-year cycle in corn and the Royals meant the latter would win the World Series this year. Based on Chaos Theory, I didn’t think so. I was correct.
