LA Times Sides With Palin

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/11/la-times-sides-with-palin

In the fight between Sarah Palin and the Wall Street Journal's Sudeep Reddy over food inflation, the Los Angeles Times is siding with Governor Palin:

The effects are rippling from financial trading floors to local stores, forcing consumers to shell out more for everyday basics — a cup of coffee, a box of cereal, a gallon of gasoline....

Retail food prices have already started to rise after remaining relatively flat for the first half of the year, said Ephraim Leibtag, an economist with U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service.

The agency forecasts that overall inflation for food prices, projected at 0.5% to 1.5% this year, in 2011 will range from 2% to 3%. "But some segments — such as dairy and meat — will be higher than that," Leibtag said.

Link via Mike Allen's Politico Playbook.

by Ira Stoll  |  Nov 10, 2010 at 8:12 am Related Topics:  Federal Reserve, Politics receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list