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Disaster Looms: FEMA Scrambles To Stockpile Food Reserves

FEMA is now actively engaging businesses on the retail supply level, suggesting that whatever they are preparing for is imminent and may occur in short order: Via Intellihub.com and My Patriot Supply: The owner of MyPatriotSupply.com was contacted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by way … Continue reading

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They Will Seize Your Food and Resources: “Hoarding of Just About Anything Can Be Banned”

In March of 2012 President Obama signed an executive order which, among other things, gives the federal government authority over every resource and infrastructure element in the United States. The new order provides specific definitions for each of these essential infrastructure … Continue reading

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The Next Food Crisis Will Be Caused By Globalist Land-Grabs

The UN warns that global food stores like grains are depleting at an exponential rate and when combined with failing harvests, there will be a food crisis in 2013. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) explain that “we’ve not been producing … Continue reading

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Zerohedge: The Reality-Is-Perception Gap

With retail stocks surging on the back of the any-minute-now recovery (justified by the might of the Federal Reserve printing press), we thought it perhaps useful to consider just how great things are in the retail sales space. Given the non-stop … Continue reading

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The Euro Legacy: In Greece, Children Pick Through Trash Cans For Food

We have reached a point where children are coming to school hungry,” as with an estimated 10% of Greek elementary and middle school students suffering from ‘food insecurity’, the troubled nation has fallen to the level of some African countries. As the … Continue reading

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The Victims of Hurricane Sandy Were Not Part of the 14 Million – and Neither Are We

On February 26, 2011, I wrote an article called “Do You Think You Are One of the 14 Million?” where I outlined the federal government’s program to buy enough food for 14 million people for 10 days in an emergency … Continue reading

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China Imports Record Amount Of Gold In December On Price Drop

Back in December, as always happens every year for the past 3, a margin call driven liquidation wave pushed the price of the gold to multi-month lows, providing merely yet another lowball buying opportunity (for which let’s all thank John … Continue reading

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The chart above (courtesy of CNNMoney.com) shows the effect of the drought across the United States today. The average price increase for the above commodities was 2.28%. This translates into an inflation rate of 600% if we do not include … Continue reading

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Deep Fried Black Swan Lands As China Admits It Has A Food Inflation Problem, Releases Corn, Rice From Reserves

Last week we wrote an article that to many was anathema: namely an explanation why everyone is deluding themselves in their expectation that the PBOC would ease, soft, hard, or just right landing notwithstanding. The reason? The threat that food inflation is … Continue reading

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On Gold And The US Debt Trap?

As with much of the euro area, the US is in a debt trap. All the politicking in DC does not change this economic fact. The federal debt is going to be devalued. Yet even now, amid a new economic … Continue reading

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Food Hyperinflation – Part II

The above chart (from CNN.money.com shows the price increases for corn, soybeans and wheat for July 18, 2012 and the opening electronic prices underneath for July 19th. Adding the two price increases together shows an increase of 3.16%, 3.61% and … Continue reading

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Gas, Jobs and Food

The media is now reporting what average Americans already know: the cost of living is impacting our lives. The cost of gasoline, loss of jobs and the increase in the price of food has led to a decline in consumer confidence. There is … Continue reading

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