claim: federal reserve policies have led to a 69 percent rise in corn prices, 44 percent rise in wheat prices and 15 percent spike in sugar prices over the last year.
author: jamie radtke
evidence_1: federal reserve policies have led to a 69 percent rise in corn prices, 44 percent  rise in wheat prices and 15 percent spike in sugar prices over the last year.
evidence_2: for 100 years now, the consumer price index has measured price change in the  u.s. economy. ... all-items cpi: total increase, 72.7 percent; 3.5 percent annually  .... monetary policy during the era was expansionary and surely contributed to the  ... however, the economy expanded in 1919, and prices continued to rise at a ...
evidence_3: feb 25, 2017 ... index of corn prices received by farmers –that is as corn prices fall, bankers ... 64  years, and to only 5 percent for operators 65 and older. ... however, the latest  kansas city federal reserve report indicates that the ... despite the rise in  delinquencies and increase in debt levels, the ... additional policies for.
evidence_4: yields a 2-3 percent increase in corn prices on average across studies. ... during  the last decade, there has been more than a five-fold increase in ... from 5 to 53  percent for increases in the price of corn by 2015 as a result of biofuel policy, ....  ethanol can be used to satisfy up to 15 billion gallons of the biofuels .... 17%-44% †.
evidence_5: world food prices increased dramatically in 2007 and the first and second quarter  of 2008, .... total grain utilization growth since 2006 (up three percent, over the ...  is often mentioned as one of the main reasons for the increase in world food  prices. .... the report also says that: "rich countries spent up to $15 billion last  year ...