NaturalNews As drought conditions persist well into late summer across the majority of U.S. states, agricultural production continues to be well below normal, meaning consumers will literally be paying the price for so much crop destruction. One...

Jim O’Neill, the economist behind the BRICs acronym, earned his Ph.D by studying oil prices. In his latest Viewpoints note, he responded to people’s concerns about an escalating Iran-Israel conflict and how it might cause oil prices...

David Rosenberg writes in today’s Breakfast With Dave note: The spike in food and gas prices casts a cloud over the back-to-school shopping season – a big drain on cyclical spending right into the grocery bill and...

 NaturalNews Long after one of the hottest and driest North American summers on record has turned to fall, consumers will still be feeling its effects in the form of higher food prices, possibly worldwide. The current year...

The drought in the American Midwest has sent corn prices soaring. And this is a very worrisome sign for Chinese pork prices. Societe Generale analysts Michel Martinez, Wei Yao, and Jaroslaw Janecki write that nearly 90 percent...

This is the hottest bull market in the world: CORN! Thanks to the drought and the heat, corn prices are going through the roof, and in the opening of trading on this Sunday evening, prices per bushel...

If the weather stays hot and dry this summer, this is going to mushroom into a huge story. First, the drought is horrible. It’s being called the worst since 1988t in almost no part. Here’s the latest...

Memo to U.S. energy consumers: you’ve got it good. That was the conclusion we drew from the presentation given by Vienna-based JBC Energy’s Alexander Poegl at this year’s Association for the Study of Peak Oil mega-conference.   Slowing...

The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration has released its Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) for 2012, and the big theme in the report is uncertainty. But they’re pretty sure oil prices are going to go up. Basically,...

Some argue that the U.S. housing market has bottomed already, and recent housing data suggests that national home prices are in the early stages of recovery. But housing is local, and price growth changes depend on the...