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You’ll be happy to know that soybean and swine prices are at 10 year lows and wheat is up slightly but lower than a year ago. [1,2,3]

I think your concern is real and well placed. When the economy is frozen for a pandemic, you have a demand shock and a supply shock, what happens to prices? I think this was genuinely unclear early in the pandemic. Interesting additional details here [4,5]

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSOYBUSDQ

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPORKUSDM

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PWHEAMTUSDQ

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2020-05-27/pa...

[5] https://mobile.twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/12416894220909...




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