Invest in Food: Prices ABout to Skyrocket
Midnight Sun
When reading news articles, it is our hope you'll read beyond the headlines and hear the unspoken message - a quiet urging to prepare.
The Midwest is at the heart of our wheat and corn production. All it will take is one bad drought - which Iowa expects - and our food supplies will take a serious hit. Should gas prices continue to escalate, there will come a point when truckers are unable to make a living and simply have to shut down. This, too, will make ALL food prices jump to due scarcity. Shortages are already showing up in certain parts of the country and around the world. Check this email:
I wanted to write and let you know about my shopping experience today. I live near Hickory, NC, a city of 37,000. My home burned in October and I am literally having to start over from scratch. I have been back online for only a few weeks but heard you urging folks to get food NOW. I decided to take the day off and do just that. WOW, was I shocked. I used to go buy in bulk at Aldi with no problem. Today, I had a hard time finding enough of the items I wanted. Some items were not in stock at all. I almost took every can in the store of certain soups and fruits. Then went to another grocery store to stock up on green beans and corn. Same story, I just about took every can on the shelves. It wasn't that I bought so very much, it was that there was so very little stock on the shelves. It reminded me of hearing you say, "There will come a day when a person will have money to buy the items, but there will be none to buy." I hope people will hear this and "WAKE UP." This is very serious!
Blessings
Chris
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Stock up now - buy in bulk - and pack for long-term storage any grain products and foods you regularly consume. It's easy, it's great insurance and will save you loads of money in the long run. The longer you delay, prices are only going to escalate, your options will dwindle, along with selection. Procrastination is our favorite form of self-sabotage. — Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby, American author
February 23, 2008
Midnight Sun
Now it’s gold prices rising through the ceiling. Next it will be food. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You need to be preparing yourself for global food shortages with food being predicted as the next big investment commodity.
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There are many things cheap labor can’t produce – oil, for example . And gold. And copper. And food. Copper is up 22% so far this year. Gold is up 11%. Wheat is off the charts. And oil broke through the $100 barrier just this week.
Inflation has become a worldwide phenomenon. High cost copper…expensive oil…and rich food prices are working their way into the whole global consumer price structure. Inflation in China itself is over 7%…with wages rising more than 10%. Yes, the trend toward lower consumer prices led by China and Wal-Mart seems to have bottomed out.
Now, we’re looking at higher labor costs in China…and higher prices for Chinese exports. Along with higher prices for just about everything else.
Everybody loved inflation when it pushed up their stocks and house prices. But they hate it when it boosts the cost of their bread and taxi fares. Only gold investors like consumer price inflation. Hence, the smart money is wagering that the price of gold will go up …and so is our money!
“The globalization of the food supply has been great,” Dan continues. “3,000 mile chicken Caesar salads, as Jim Kunstler puts it. But just in time, calorie delivery is running straight into more conventional realities…like droughts…floods…and plain old high prices.
“I always thought the French position on retaining the ability to produce your own food was never fully discussed as a strategic choice. It is one thing to outsource your textile industry…or your industrial base…or your supply of oversize sweat pants.
“But outsourcing your supply of food and water…depending on unfriendly or unreliable trading partners to keep sending fresh fruit and poultry…or thinking the global system of trade will forever expand and never again contract…these are all dangerous assumptions that could leave you with an empty national stomach at night.”
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