Graph shows food prices rising before Fed money creation... can someone explain this?

[John_James]

I think North has a pretty accurate assessment:

Booms, Busts, and Food Prices

[Autolykos]

@Philip M

Here’s a pdf of that harpers magazine article:

http://www.ebio.org/uploads/the-food-bubble-pdf-1.pdf

Thanks for that!

Having looked over the article, I can’t find any footnotes or any other hard evidence for what the author alleges of Goldman Sachs. It reads like an editorial.