Tag: food prices
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Economics Links
1. Huffington Post: Financially Speaking — Are We an Illiterate Nation? … Champlain College's Center for Financial Literacy released its '2013 National Report Card,' which quantifies what states are doing to promote financial literacy in the classroom. Only seven of 50 states surveyed came away from the study with an "A" rating. That's right, a…
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Interactive: How far will $35 go at the grocery store through the decades?
Marketplace: Interactive: How far will $35 go at the grocery store through the decades? Ever wonder how far your money goes at the grocery store today compared to decades past? When you adjust food prices for inflation, you might be surprised to learn that your dollars go further today compared to 30 years ago —…
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Why Are Food Prices Going Crazy?
NPR: Why Are Food Prices Going Crazy? … I recently put these questions to Abdolreza Abbassian, a food economist at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. Here's what he told me. Skyrocketing Prices Abbassian attributed the price rise to several factors — some familiar to me (and probably to you), some less familiar. 1. The…
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Whatever happened to the food crisis?
The Economist: Whatever happened to the food crisis? … But recession would normally dampen down price rises. So what explains the return of food-price inflation? And does it mean that the so-called world food crisis is returning? There are two clusters of explanation: cyclical factors—features of the farm cycle and world economy that fluctuate from…