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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
First Covid, then record-high inflation, then record-high gas prices, then Putin slaughtering women and children ... and now the final scourge .... a Malaysian palm oil shortage threatening the stability of everything on Earth! What's in store next for the pitiful remnants of the human race to endure? They gonna cancel Wheel Of Fortune or something equally devastating?

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“A fisherman has to have more money just to break even on a trip,” said David Veal, executive director of the American Shrimp Processors Association in Biloxi, Mississippi. “The cost goes beyond what a customer is willing to pay for it.”

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Data due out on Thursday are expected to show that consumer prices rose at the fastest level in 41 years in February, climbing 7.8 per cent from the year before, according to a survey of economists by Bloomberg.

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A complete ban on Russian energy imports in all major consuming countries would “severely reduce and disrupt energy supply” and prices could soar further into “uncharted territory,” wrote Caroline Bain, chief commodities economist at Capital Economics.

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