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I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight.*

Posted by jfleck on 17 October 2008, 12:54 pm

Remember when the commodity price explosion was causing food riots, and people were starving? Yesterday’s Economist food price index was 1.9 percent below a year ago.

* The title is one of the few literary references at my disposal.

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