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QUICK NEWS 📣 📣 📣 1. Shipping lines are reporting a shortage of equipment due to canceled sailings, leading to increased demand and higher prices, as well as additional fees and the possibility of a Diamond Tier level being added. The situation is expected to be about 50% more tense than during the pandemic. 2. The price of black pepper has increased significantly and keep increasing in the upcoming days. 3. In addition, coffee prices have plummeted sharply in the past week, with a 30-40% decrease in just 2-3 days. The lack of coffee buyers has led to a strong selling wave. Farmers and traders shifting capital to store black pepper have caused pepper prices to rise sharply and the pepper volume of transactions in the market to become scarce. #VINAPRO #pepper #blackpepper #coffee #agriculturalproducts

Ruffled Feathers: The Chicken Cartel in the United States - PDF: https://lnkd.in/ggtQ9Rve Allegations of price-fixing by U.S. chicken suppliers in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act date back more than a half-century. The methods to facilitate this collusion have evolved over time from conference calls arranged by the National Broiler Marketing Association to more sophisticated methods of information sharing. Amid the highest rate of inflation in nearly forty years and persistent supply-chain bottlenecks as the country emerges from the pandemic, the chicken industry has been singled out by government officials for monopolistic pricing behavior. We examine the mechanism through which the “chicken cartel” was formed and sustained and its harmful effects on consumers. The analysis indicates that as early as 2008 a plan was hatched by U.S. chicken suppliers to collude in fixing the price of chicken. According to one complaint, this collusion, in concert with increased market concentration, raised chicken prices by approximately 50 percent. The associated consumer surplus losses are estimated at $8 to $10 billion annually with cumulative losses over the duration of the cartel ranging upward of $100 billion. Numerous indictments have been handed down and settlements reached, both civil and criminal.

Stealthflation is in the news again. More secretive than straightforward inflation, stealthflation is putting through a price increase by reducing pack size. The size of Wagon Wheels has been a pub conversation for many years. Are they actually smaller now? Or is it the same psychology that makes police officers seem younger ever year 😁 But just as we thought core inflation was easing here’s another sneaky trick. Brewers are reducing the alcohol content (ABV) of their beers 😱 Beers like Carlsberg, Old Speckled Hen and now John Smiths have all seen their ABV reduced in recent months. With smaller sizes you can check how many bags of Walkers crisps there are in your multipack. But comparing the alcohol content of your beer to the same pint last year is nigh-on impossible. It’s saving brewers millions in duty. But guess who’s paying. It is of course a price increase by stealth. What other examples of stealthflation are you seeing? #stealthflation #priceincrease #inflation  

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