Agflation Goes Retail

We’ve been writing about it for several months (years, actually, but who’s counting) and now it’s finally starting to show up on the consumer side of things. Up until last month or so, the price explosion on global commodity markets wasn’t...

Broke and Hungry: This Chart Says It All

Contrary to the opinion that our economy is on a booming trajectory to the moon, the following chart from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service tells the real story: One in seven Americans now depend on food stamps to pay the grocery bill each week, and according to a...