Tag Archives: Food Prices

How U.S. Income Groups Get Squeezed By Food Prices

Posted on February 2, 2011 by macromon

Take a look at the chart we’ve constructed from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics 2009 Consumer Expenditure Survey.  It conveys a sense of how Egypt’s poverty combined with the sharp rise in food prices sparked the political revolt against … Continue reading →

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Nonlinear Thinking: Egypt Needs Hydroponics

Posted on February 1, 2011 by macromon

The world seems caught in a race between a dark age Malthusian struggle for resources and a technological revolution producing advances which will help resolve the conflict of the world’s growing population and diminishing resources. Both have collided and pushed … Continue reading →

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Ag Prices Catch-up to Farm Values

Posted on January 31, 2011 by macromon

Here’s an interesting chart showing cropland values versus the CRB foodstuffs index.  Note how farm values were caught up in the 2004-08 real estate bubble,  increasing 58 percent while foodstuffs as measured by the CRB were up only 15 percent.  … Continue reading →

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A Major Factor Driving Political Instability

Posted on January 28, 2011 by macromon

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;  Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world – W.B.  Yeats Here’s a report from India’s NDTV on the “hyperinflation” in food prices in some countries, which already is and could further destabilize regimes … Continue reading →

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Monetarism Redefined: Crude, Fine Wine & Gold

Posted on January 20, 2011 by macromon

“Inflation is Always and Everywhere a Monetary Phenomenon” – Milton Freidman Monetarism as a theory, which states that the variation in the money supply has major influences on national output in the short run and the price level over longer … Continue reading →

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Nonlinear Thinking: The Future of Ag?

Posted on January 18, 2011 by macromon

As food prices spike and the Malthusian noise grows louder let’s take a look at what the “victory garden” of the future may look like.   Indoor Ag and hydroponics are already huge in the the production of the number one … Continue reading →

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