food price

Has your grocery list changed?

I just got back from the store.Anymore you almost have to be rich just to buy a bag of groceries.Prices keep going higher with no end in sight.So I started going to this outlet grocery store where...

Should we Indians be blamed for food prices as Mr. Bush think?

Recently US president made the remark that Indians are responsible for food price hike. He thinks that there are more middle class people in India than the total population of US. As Indian middle...

Watch as Democrats try to blame financial mess on "deregulation"

The Heritage Foundation’s "Morning Bell" points me to something Sebastian Mallaby said today in the WaPo:[B]laming deregulation for the financial mess is misguided. But it is dangerous, too,...

Tomato processing, egg products industries probed (AP)

A federal investigation into possible food price-fixing has been expanded to include two major industries, tomato processing and egg products.

Supermarkets to feel heat as food inflation eases

LONDON (Reuters) - Signs that food price inflation is close to a peak could herald tougher times for the country's supermarket groups, which have so far been comparatively resilient to a slowdown in...

Biofuels, oil reserves and our future

Yeah, I know I bang this drum incessantly, but this is important stuff. We have a short time-frame in which to act in order to head off, or at least soften, the impact of future energy demand in...

Are Bread Lines in Our Future?

I remember reading somewhere that during the Great Depression, people lined up on city streets for a free apple. And last night, when I stopped by the local grocery store to pick a few things up, I...

Reconciling Estimates: Biofuels and Food Prices

The AP describes Lazear's views on the role of biofuels on rising prices thus: "US disputes IMF on food prices". From the article by Desmond Butler:WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is...

Food Price Inflation: Causes and Impacts…and other full-text reports on DocuTicker

Posted 27 April 2008 on DocuTicker: + Food Price Inflation: Causes and Impacts (Congressional Research Service) + Turkey’s Turning Point: Could There Be an Islamic Revolution in Turkey? (American...

UN secretary-general calls food price rise a global crisis

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.Ban said the U.N and all members of the international community...

An Oversupply of Bad Policies Help Food Supplies Dwindle

Idiotic biofuel mandates are contributing to food price increases around the world. Higher global food prices lead to more hunger in poor countries. However, as the International Policy Network in...

Food prices

How should a well-fed American react when some of the world's poorest citizens in Haiti and Bangladesh riot over the rising price of food? Street market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 12, 2008. ...