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To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (76738)7/23/2011 12:49:22 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217881
 
For usd n usd-pegged domains such as hong kong, 10% annual price inflation on everything we need, and -10% real deflation relative to gold on everything (except gold, platinum, silver, palladium) we have, and on average we are fine, just like the weather in USA :0)

One foot in ice cold bath, the other in boiling hot pot, and on average ...



To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (76738)7/23/2011 2:01:22 PM
From: Sea Otter  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217881
 
Not just the US. Was back in China for a couple weeks - the north is simply drying out and dying of heat and thirst. It's a disaster in the making.

This being China, the government is energetically all over the problem: cloud-seeding, mega water projects etc. But even so crop yields are way down and there is major concern.

These trends continue and we'll be looking at world food shortages. I'm buying in the Agriculture sector.


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