World Food Prices Soar To Record
Tucked away in the “Business” section of the Washington Post site today was a link to this cheerful bit of news. From the Post’s Rudy Ruitenberg: World food prices rose to a record in December on...
View ArticleUN Agency Reports Food Prices Rose Slightly In April
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is reporting that an index of 55 food commodities increased slightly last month. From their website this morning: Food prices remained...
View ArticleUN Agency Reports Food Prices Rose In June
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is reporting that an index of 55 food commodities increased slightly last month. From their website earlier today: FAO’s Food Price...
View ArticleFood Prices Could Keep Rising In 2012
Think the price of food is expensive these days? Yesterday, I heard some chatter in the news about it going even higher next year. From the Associated Press’ Chip Cutter on Monday: Food prices could...
View ArticleOn TV: Doomsday Preppers, Episode 3
On Tuesday, February 14, episode 3 of the new National Geographic Channel TV series Doomsday Preppers aired (I blogged about the first two episodes here). In “Back to the Stone Age,” four prepper...
View ArticleIs A Corn Crisis Coming?
Rising corn prices have become a real concern for American households. And CNBC Managing Editor Allen Wastler wrote about a potential corn crisis in the works on the CNBC website earlier this evening....
View ArticleHow Food Prices May React To The Drought
Driving back-and-forth between Chicago and southeast Wisconsin quite a bit these days, I’ve witnessed what the ongoing drought is doing to the local crops. And one thing I’ve been wondering about is,...
View ArticleJeremy Grantham Identifies 10 ‘Potential Threats To Our Well-Being’
Jeremy Grantham, the British-born investment strategist and founder/former chairman of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. (oversees $117 billion in client assets as of June 30, 2015), just released...
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