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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
GLD 453.97-0.1%Feb 4 4:00 PM EST
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (92793)7/23/2012 3:44:51 PM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 220043
 
food commodities: There are two ways to look at it:
1) The % spent on food in a given country. (that one was root cause of Arab Spring)

Also people will start consuming less food:
Italy Grain-Import Bill Fell 14% Through April on Volume
businessweek.com

2) the % of food weight on inflation baskets

food commodities and their weightings in emerging market inflation baskets are substantial, accounting for about 30 per cent of China’s inflation, almost 50 per cent in India and 33 per cent for Thailand.
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