Spot food prices up 19% so far in 2014
Are food prices rising where you are? I often have lunch and coffee at @YC. Owner John tells me milk just rose $1.50 a gallon and bacon spiked from $32 to $42. He may have to raise prices. What happens…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Tag food prices
How Goldman Sachs created the food crisis
From those crazed radicals at Foreign Policy Don’t blame American appetites, rising oil prices, or genetically modified crops for rising food prices. Wall Street’s at fault for the spiraling cost of food. Instead blame the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI)…
Animal feed prices are soaring now. Food prices will follow
Promoted from DJ’s comment to Wes Rolley’s post on rising food prices In our area, the price of animal feed, from corn-based feeds to barley to dog food, is up about 40% since the first of the year, an annualized…
Cost of food hits new high, politics is as usual
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the cost of food increased in February for the eighth consecutive month and reached an all time high. You heard a bit of this in the news coverage of the grassroots…
A fine rant on commodity speculation
From options trader Philip Davis. Who are the apologists at CNBC really protecting? Bloomberg says it’s the investment banks, who have churned free Federal loans along with an investor frenzy into $596 TRILLION of speculative derivative investments “including those based…