Influx

If you're a food manufacturer, a restaurant chain or just an average consumer in the US and especially the developing world, the above graph has to have you worried. Not only does it show the recent rapid increase in the costs of both food and oil, but it shows the closeness of the relationship...

Hedging is usually something done by Wall Street to help protect companies against volatile commodity and currency pricing. This tool might now be finding it's way into marketing thanks to a company called Pricelock, who've just done a gas deal for automaker Hyundai. The possibilities are endless;...

A few days back, I wrote about the rise of the "Radiohead pricing model" that we've started to see crop up in other places like restaurants and hotels. Digging a little deeper, it seems there are some environments where this has been going on for some time, Berlin's honesty bars being one...

There's a provocative piece by George Monbiot in today's Guardian, where he talks about the failure of politicians to grasp the concept that there are either higher energy costs from renewable sources or no energy at all. People are still thinking about alternative energy as alternative to oil, but...

The Daily Show puts the idea that Americans are now hoarding and stockpilling basic supplies like rice, into very sharp focus. Sam's Club now restricts rice purchases to four bags per visit.Of course, we know The Daily Show's stock in trade is satire, but the WSJ?"I don't want to alarm anybody, but...