This month’s Barclays commodity report contained the following interesting graph. It shows how the sectors of energy, agriculture, livestock, industrial and precious metals in exchange-traded products funds have changed since the first of this year. The title of the report was also interesting: The Commodity Refiner. From an age of shortage to an era of [...]
In the current issue of Scientific American, there is an article with nice multiple graphics to educate people about today’s higher cost of producing energy as measured by the EROI. Energy return on investment (EROI) is the value used to represent the energy obtained per unit of energy spent to obtain it. The article titled, [...]
Today I am featuring USDA and BLS reports recapping food price increases of 2012 (in the U.S.). Part 1 is from the USDA and part 2 is from the BLS. Overall food-at-home prices rose 2.6 percent in 2012, but this masked a great deal of variation across food categories. For the second consecutive year, beef [...]
