Some people are walking to work, riding bicycles, taking the city bus, and even losing their jobs over the gas prices rising.  An independent source stated that wholesale prices have risen $.50 within 24 hours.  Other sources are pricing gasoline at the pump up 8.3 cents to $4.315 a gallon in California on Wednesday,  according to
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Sometimes we Americans can be a little stubborn, a little too prideful or provincial when it comes to change. But slowly, surely, Americans are finally “getting it” when it comes to natural and organic foods, and we’re buying more of them. New consumer research shows that while some grocery spending has fallen in recent months,
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Fox new Aug. 16, 2012 With record drought destroying crops across the country, corn prices are skyrocketing, and that is causing a world-wide ripple effect, including on the cost of the corn-derived gasoline additive ethanol. Corn prices are up 60 percent this summer, Christopher Hurt, a Purdue University economic professor, estimates. And now Democratic governors from Maryland,
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Are our grocery prices going to hit an all time high with the drought?  Shoppers across the country should stand up and take notice of the Midwestern drought that has already hurt supplies of corn and soybeans.  The drought will lead to higher supermarket prices for everything from milk to meat.  How high will depend on
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Tightening your financial belt will help you and your family survive. Part of the modern survival philosophy is not only to be prepared for SHTFSh!t Hits the Fan scenarios, but to also survive life as it is today. Surviving today’s unemployment, hard economic times and rising prices will mean tightening your belt. Many of us
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I was watching the Weather Channel this morning and they were showing a story about the sever weather of 2011. One of the big problems is how hard it hit the farmers. Crops were destroyed, live stock was sold early and a huge number of them were killed off. So not wanting to look at the Weather Channel any longer I turned to the BBC America. They had a story about the war looming withIran. If we do go to war with them, oil prices rise, and the cost of transportation of goods will increase. What does this mean for you and I? Get ready for more high food prices–- the USDA is projecting that we are looking at an overall spike of 2.5% to 3.5%.

The weak US housing market is hampering an economic recovery US home prices have fallen further in October despite record low mortgage interest rates, according to new data. The Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index of 10 major metropolitan areas fell 1.1% from a month earlier and its 20-city index fell 1.2%. Atlanta was one of
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Curious what the talking heads will be discussing all weekend parallel to the joke that is the European Summit #1, not to be confused with summit #666? Here is the answer, courtesy of the FT Deutschland, where not too subtly, right next to a lede saying “the Euro rescue has turned into a farce“, the
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I enjoy going out to the garden and harvesting fresh fruits and vegetables for the meal I am preparing, or just pull a peach of the tree, sit in the sun and enjoy what Mother Nature has given me. I also fell a little less stress as I shop. I do not need to buy tomatoes or basil for pasta tonight. Why? because I grow it.