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U.S. Pizza Goes to Asia? Rising Cost of Cheese

Have you noticed how expensive a slice of Pizza is? Food prices are sky-rocketing.  It's a real crisis.

COST OF CHEESE:  I did some research on the cost of cheese, which has driven cost of pizza high.  I was surprised at the reason.

U.S. Exports Most Cheese to Asia

A major cause is the growing demand for pizza and fast-food in emerging markets in Asian nations.  The U.S. exports huge amounts of cheese overseas!!  Huh?

Asia's growing appetite for pizza and cheeseburgers means the U.S. is exporting the most cheese  ever.  The U.S. shipped more than twice as much to Asia in the first four months of 2011 as a year earlier, U.S. Dairy Export Council data show. 

Yikes.

 

How Israelis Responded to Cheese Crisis

Israelis launched a huge Facebook protest of rising cottage cheese prices.  Read more:   Israeli Cheese Protest 

Question:  Why aren't  there more dairy farms in Asia??

 

 

Campaign Slogan: “It’s Corporate Crime and Control, Stupid.”

Ralph Nader:

"It was Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist, James Carville, who in 1992 created the election slogan: “It’s the Economy, Stupid.” For the 2010 Congressional campaigns, the slogan should have been: “It’s Corporate Crime and Control, Stupid.”
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The giant corporate control of our country is so vast that people who call themselves anything politically—liberal, conservative, progressive, libertarian, independents or anarchist—should be banding together against the reckless Big Business steamroller.

Read the full Article:

"The New Economy" Leaves Retiring Boomers Stranded -- Where to Go?

The Wall Street Journal has a great article about new places to retire in the "new economy".  The old standbys real estate prices that leave most boomers unable to relocate.

Read:  The New Best Places to Retire