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Odds 'n Sods:
SJC flagged this article: Wholesale
prices soared in March. On a related note: I'm sure that you've noticed the
recent
spike
in
oil
to
an
all-time
high. The current retail food prices are based on roughly $80 per barrel
oil. Part of food prices includes tractor time, fertilizer (which are primarily
petrochemical,
these days) and shipping costs. When you factor in $114 oil, further jumps in
food prices seem inevitable. I hope that you've already stocked up. Ditto for
filling your
fuel
storage
tanks.
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James mention that this Wall Street Journal editorial is worth reading: Dollar
Alarm
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"Carson" suggested this article from Slate: Here Comes the Next Mortgage
Crisis
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Honey
Bee Collapse Now Worse on West Coast
