It fuels speculationandhoarding, as well as misdirects investment into normally uneconomic activities or stops the flow of productive investment altogether as people and businesses clutch their cash.
Inflation is a destructive distorter. it fuels speculationandhoarding, as well as misdirects investment into normally uneconomic activities or stops the flow of productive investment altogether as people and businesses clutch their cash.
Rising food demand has many causes, from raised climate instability to demographic growth, to urbanization (loss of subsistence production), to higher emerging market (particularly Indian and Chinese) living standards, to speculationandhoarding, and so on.