Trying to make sense of the oil, grain, and currency markets was mind-boggling.
The sharp drop in world prices for oil and grain precipitated by the past few months' economic turmoil has literally, if probably temporarily, taken the energy out of last summer's vitriolic "food-versus-fuel " debate.
The drop in prices for oil, metals and grain Kazakhstan's major exports have also hit the economy.
Low prices for oil, metals and grain Kazakhstan's main exports will soon start to affect the economy.
Since gold, grain and oil prices soared to previously unfathomable heights, everyone wants to know what's next.
For example, readers would know that entering your name into the Reaping multiple times meant receiving extra grain and oil.
China still props up North Korea with supplies of grain and oil.
They rarely take physical delivery of raw materials and have no effect on the actual production and consumption of metal, grain or oil.
Iran, likewise, has been forced into paying with gold for imported staples like grain and cooking oil.
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There are reports that Iran is offering barter deals gold bullion for grain, and oil for rice and bananas.
Cook and stir until the rice is light golden and each grain is coated with oil.
Throughout the 1960's and into the 1970's, most Chinese needed ration coupons as well as money to buy grain, meat, oil or milk.
The stage is set, Grice says, for a permanent step up in grain prices, just as oil prices jumped following the 1973 Arab oil embargo.
In the days ahead, our train will pass a succession of monstrous eastbound freight services, groaning with raw materials: Albertan oil and yellow sulphur, British Columbian coal and lumber, but mostly grain from the prairies.
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