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State of the Food Riots and Food Inflation in Egypt

February 6, 2011 · 1 comment

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The other day, a reader reminded me of the post I wrote a year and a half ago on the coming double-digit inflation.  More and more, lately in the news we hear snippets about inflation cropping up in the food prices around the world.  Yet inflation is still almost taboo to talk about inside the [...]

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5 Recent Examples of Consumer Food Price Inflation in Second Half of 2009

October 22, 2009 · 6 comments

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While going through my receipts and budget yesterday, I paid particular attention to some items for which the cost has jumped up in recent months.
Analysts keep saying that deflation is still officially the name of the current game, but here are some real examples of costs going up.
They can keep saying “deflation” all they [...]

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