Life getting hobbesian in the middle east?

[blazespinnaker]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/wor...toc.cnn?hpt=T1

Rising food prices are leading to some nasty, brutish, and short existences for some. Or at least some terrible class wars.

Is rising food prices a result of Chinese demand? Or too much money circulating through the system? Would raising interest rates help reduce the problem? Or would that just push developing nations back into poverty?

[iyamwutiam]

Re: Life getting hobbesian in the middle east?

I think you have asked some seriously interesting questions there. For example it is amazing how governments (particularly) the US but many many others -can defy the 'Laws' of Supply and Demand at the drop of a hat -when the populace may choose to hit the eject button on the the Mr.10% known in most countries as a president/prime minister etc (except i Pakistan -where they seem to have no taste for polity).

[touchring]

Re: Life getting hobbesian in the middle east?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/wor...toc.cnn?hpt=T1

Rising food prices are leading to some nasty, brutish, and short existences for some. Or at least some terrible class wars.

Is rising food prices a result of Chinese demand? Or too much money circulating through the system? Would raising interest rates help reduce the problem? Or would that just push developing nations back into poverty?

I think a bit of both and also the weather and not just China but India, and as well as many of those resource rich countries that exports to China and India. If you believe that the US prints money for China to spend (http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthr...China-to-spend.), then yes.

Also, global warming as a result of forest burning factory pollution is destroying crops at an unprecedented scale.