Posts Tagged ‘ food prices ’

Rising Food Costs

Jun 25th, 2008 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Commodities, Energy
I know what is going on inside the heads of the farmers. This spring, I went to visit farms in the Midwest, as I do every year. It was a Saturday in mid-April when I pulled up to the Miller Armstrong Building in the sleepy farm town of Waseca, Minn. Waseca ...read more

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Economic Alarms

Jun 12th, 2008 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Macro Economics
Economic theory tries to deal with a limited number of factors and the mechanisms by which they interact. The main factors are population, food, energy, property, and manufactures, all of which are physical realities capable of being counted. They are the beans that bean counters count with. There are four ...read more

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