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"Arab Spring Redux?" - Bloomberg Finally Connects The Dots, Higher Food Inflation...

• Zero Hedge

Six months after SocGen's market skeptic Albert Edwards shared his thoughts about why he started to panic about soaring food prices and how it may cause social unrest in emerging market economies, Bloomberg chimed in with a piece titled "Arab Spring Redux? Middle East Most Exposed to Food Prices." 

Pandemic-driven hunger is already sweeping across the world as we highlighted on Monday that global food insecurity is at 15-year highs. 

Bloomberg finally connected the dots Tuesday with "international food prices close to their 2011 peaks," and it was this time ten years ago when food insecurity resulted in "waves of protests, especially in the Middle East." 


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