Food supply shock

Food prices make a handy proxy for inflation worries. Investment editor James Mackintosh says industrial metals provide a similarly useful proxy for growth hopes. When metals prices are rising faster than food, the world can have growth without too much inflation. When food is rising faster, inflation is threatening to get out of control.

Financial Times | July 8, 2012

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