Food Inflation

At Grocery Auction, The Food Is Antique

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Food Inflation, Col Kirk's, Grocery Auction, Secondary Market Food, Salvage Food, Shoplifting Ring, Kirk Williams, Slidewide, Food Prices, Roger Naugle, Food Auction, Meat Theft, Money News

MILLVILLE, Penn. -- On a recent Friday in March in this hilly Pennsylvania town, a crowd of 80 locals gathered at Colonel Kirk's Auction Gallery. Farm...

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The Economics of Oktoberfest

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Food Inflation, Economic Indicators, Germany, Beer, Business News, Oktoberfest Inflation, Oktoberfest, Wall Street Journal, Video, Business News

By Brian Blackstone of the Wall Street Journal Germany has been in open revolt over the European Central Bank‘s policy of buying the government d...

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Darn Them Piggies! Pork Prices & the Inflation Outlook for China

Nigel Chalk | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: International Monetary Fund, Bottlenecks, Imf, Overheating, Macroeconomic Policies, China, Property Prices, Food Inflation, Excess Labor, Inflation, Food Price Shocks, Imfdirect, Asset Price Inflation, Pork Prices, Skills Gaps, Surplus Labor, Food Prices, Business News

During the past year, views on China's economy have yo-yoed from concerns about the recovery, to hand-wringing about inflation and overheating, and then back to talk of hard landing.

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Corn Prices Suddenly Drop After Surprisingly Large Crop Estimate

Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Corn Reserves, Commodity Inflation, Food Inflation, Corn Prices, Global Food Prices, Corn Crop, Corn Yield, Food Prices, Business News

The nation’s farmers have planted the second-largest corn crop in nearly seven decades, the Agriculture Department reported Thursday, setting off a ...

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Coca-Cola Raising Its Prices

Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Food Inflation, Rising Food Prices, Global Inflation, Credit Suisse, Unemployment Inflation, Coca Cola, Soda Coke, Food Prices, Video, Business News

Coca-Cola Co plans to raise prices on its soft drinks by 3 percent to 4 percent in July, in addition to a 2 percent increase taken earlier this ye...

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High Food Prices Here To Stay

AP | By RAF CASERT | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Food Inflation, Commodities, High Food Prices, Price of Food America, Commodity Prices, Food Price Hikes, High Food Prices Continue, Food Prices, Food Prices America, Food News

PARIS -- High food prices are likely to rise even further over the next decade, putting the poor at an increasing risk of malnutrition and hunger, a w...

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Restaurant Critic Takes Tricky Menu Pricing To Task

Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Ryan Sutton, Prix Fixe, Restaurant Menu Prices, Food Inflation, Menu Pricing, Restaurant Pricing, Inflation, Price Hike, Restaurant Price Inflation, NY Restaurants, Food News

Restaurant menus don't tell you how much meals cost—but Ryan Sutton does. As Bloomberg's restaurant critic and the writer of well-regarded Tumblr Th...

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How China's Growing Middle Class Is Raising Food Prices

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Food Inflation, Rising Food Prices, Beijing, Global Food Prices, China Inflation, China Food Prices, China Middle Class, Chinese Yuan, China Economy, Business News

BEIJING — Hunger was such a constant companion in Yao Qizhong's childhood that even now, at age 40, he'll stoop down to salvage a single clove o...

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McDonald's To Bump Prices, While Ads Wax Fifties Nostalgic

Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: 1955, Food Inflation, McDonald's, Inflation, Price Hike, Mcdonalds, Food News

As food costs are expected to rise about four percent in the United States and Europe from last year, McDonald's plans to raise its prices slightly an...

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Farmers Not To Blame For High Food Prices

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: US Economy, Food Inflation, High Food Prices, US Agriculture, Economy, Corn, Farmers, Corn Crop, Renewable Fuels Association, National Corn Growers Association, Usda, Ethanol Industry, Food Industry, Food News

DES MOINES, Iowa — Farmers and ethanol producers have braced for what they expect could be widespread criticism as corn prices are rising rapidl...

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Food Inflation Kept Hidden In Tinier Bags

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD and CATHERINE RAMPELL | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Food Packaging, Canned Corn, Raw Materials, Nabisco, Kraft, Food Inflation, Chips, Pasta, Advertising, Chock Full O' Nuts, Saltines, Reese's, Food Prices, Chicken of the Sea, Heinz, Business News

As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages....

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Wholesale Prices Rise For 7th Straight Month

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wholesale Prices, Wholesale Prices Rise, Inflation, US Economy, Food Inflation, Consumer Price Inflation, Tires, Plastics, Jewelry, Business News, Business News

WASHINGTON — Steady improvement in the economy may soon come at a price – faster inflation. Shoes, clothes, tires, plastics and other pro...

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On Destabilizing Food Inflation, Krugman misses the point

Daniel Dicker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Food Inflation, Food, Paul Krugman, Commodity Prices, Egypt, Cftc, Algeria, New York Times, Etf, Oils Endless Bid, Nobel Prize, Business News

Krugman is right that soaring food prices have contributed to Middle East troubles. But the major point of the piece unfortunately concentrates on weather events as the fundamental cause.

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Food Commodity Speculation Adds to Egypt Unrest

Daniel Dicker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Food Inflation, Commodities, Egypt, Cftc, Dodd-Frank Bill, Egypt Protests, Food Prices, Egypt Food Prices, World News

While the protests in Egypt are politically motivated, there is also little doubt that the rage of the populace there is being inflamed by the huge and volatile increases in basic food prices.

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Explosive Food Inflation -- The Big Presidential Issue?

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Could the price and availability of food become one of the 2008 campaign's biggest issues? Or maybe, we should be asking, why the explosive inflation in food prices is not already the issue.

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Food Costs Rising Fastest in 17 Years

AP | ELLEN SIMON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Economics, Rising Food Prices, Food Costs, Weak Dollar, High Wheat Prices, Food Prices, High Dairy Prices, Worst Food Inflation, Food Inflation, Emerging Markets, Bankruptcies, Bankruptcy Wave, Retail Chains, Business News

NEW YORK — Steve Tarpin can bake a graham cracker crust in his sleep, but explaining why the price for his Key lime pies went from $20 to $25 re...

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Food Price Inflation Changes How We Shop

AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Prices, Inflation, Recession, Food Inflation, Grocery Shops, Corn Prices, Wheat Prices, Business News

Steadily rising food costs aren't just causing grocery shoppers to do a double-take at the checkout line _ they're also changing the very ways we feed...

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