Tag: prices
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#MorningMonarchy: October 28, 2026
Medical fraud rings, rotten egg cartels and different attacks expected + this day in history w/standoff leaders acquitted and our song of the day by Bryan Andrews on your #MorningMonarchy for Shocktober 28, 2026.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Wall Street Answers When You Call 911 (Video)
Americans wake up to the rigged economy and meaningless elections; Wall Street answers the phone when you dial 911; and the social engineers plan food riots.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Rigged Economies, Wall Street 911, Food Chain Reaction (Audio)
Americans wake up to the rigged economy and meaningless elections; Wall Street answers the phone when you dial 911; and the social engineers plan food riots.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 27, 2016
Nanofarms, certain crops and Mediterranean diets + this day in history w/’Paradise Lost’ and our song of the day by Sun Club on your Morning Monarchy for April 27, 2016.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: China Launches Yuan Gold Fix (Video)
China makes another new major move during the new gold rush; Between the lawsuit, the oil and the 28 pages – there’s another new window of opportunity for some 9/11+15 truth; and another new poll shows the dinosaur media continues to go extinct.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Chinese Gold, Saudi Pressure, Media (Mis)Trust (Audio)
China makes another new major move during the new gold rush; Between the lawsuit, the oil and the 28 pages – there’s another new window of opportunity for some 9/11+15 truth; and another new poll shows the dinosaur media continues to go extinct.
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#MorningMonarchy: March 8, 2016
Hacking Hillary, solar eclipse and robot waiters + this day in history w/MH370 and our song of the day by Basia Bulat on your Morning Monarchy for March 8, 2016.
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Now Cheap Food Blamed for America’s Obesity Crisis
from nbcnews.com: Why are Americans so fat? A new study suggests we’ve been getting it all wrong. It’s not that we don’t exercise enough or spend too much time at the office, or that good, healthy food is too expensive, researchers reported Thursday. And it’s not about socioeconomic status, race or geography. Rather, the main…
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Frugal US Consumers Make It Tough for Food Companies to Raise Prices
from reuters.com: Consumers “have gotten really good over these last four years at stretching a penny,” said Pat Conroy, leader of the U.S. consumer products practice at Deloitte LLP. Referring to the recession, he said, “Our hypothesis was that this thing was going to leave a scar, not a bruise. So far, we’ve been right.”…
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Rising Food Prices Make Tabs Higher at Markets, Restaurants
from toledoblade.com: Through March, the price of food is up 1.7 percent during the last year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is running ahead of the general inflation rate, currently at 1.5 percent. In March alone, retail food prices rose 0.4 percent from February. And…
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Rising Food Prices Pinching Consumers
from usatoday.com: Two months of sharp increases in food prices show grocers are starting to pass along their higher wholesale costs to consumers. Retail food prices rose 0.4% in March, the same as in February and the largest amount since September 2011. By comparison, the prices of all consumer goods rose 0.2% in March and…
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Weird Weather, War Make Food More Expensive
from qz.com: The winter of 2014 hasn’t been kind to the cost of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Food prices have jumped more than 5% since the start of the year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index, which was updated this morning with new data for March. Sugar, cereals, and vegetable…
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Access to Affordable, Healthy Food in Canada’s North Nears Crisis
from america.aljazeera.com: Here are grocery prices in some remote communities in Canada’s north: $10 for a carton of milk, $28 for a cabbage, $65 for a chicken. Leesee Papatsie, a resident of Iqaluit, the capital city of the vast northern territory of Nunavut, has seen it all — and documented some of the more budget-busting…
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Rising Food Prices Bite Into Household Budgets
from usatoday.com: Prices are rising for a range of food staples, from meat and pork to fruits and vegetables, squeezing consumers still struggling with modest wage gains. Food prices rose 0.4% in February, the most since September 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. Beef and veal shoppers were socked with some of the…
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Junk Food Not Cheaper Than Healthy Food
It doesn’t cost any more to eat healthy food than it does to eat junk food, a government study found, casting doubt on the popular belief that many people can’t afford healthful foods.