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2011-05-04 Economy

How the Fed triggered the Arab Spring uprisings in two easy graphs

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Posted by tipper 2011-05-04 12:25|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It isn't an 'Arab Spring' at all. Just call the whole shebang 'food riots.'

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-04 13:33|| 2011-05-04 13:33|| Front Page Top

#2 One can explain anything with graphs or statistics. For example, 90% of statistics are made up on the spot.

We can control uprisings in the middle east but we cannot control our own spending and our own economy?

Posted by JohnQC 2011-05-04 14:09|| 2011-05-04 14:09|| Front Page Top

#3 It is a spring. A spring is followed by summer. Summer is dying time in ME.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-05-04 14:40|| 2011-05-04 14:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Surely bad harvests last year due to a cold, wet spring in the northern hemisphere (Russia discontinued grain exports until further notice) followed by the major flood in Australia had something to with food prices rising?

Summer is dying time in ME.

Could you expand on that g(r)omgoru? Heat deaths, thirst deaths, hunger deaths, other?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-04 15:32|| 2011-05-04 15:32|| Front Page Top

#5 All of the above. See.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-05-04 15:52|| 2011-05-04 15:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Correlation is not proof of causation.

The Fed likely had some effect, but less than the weather and the biofuels lunacy.

The Arab world's particular problem is a huge dependence on imported food.

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-04 19:12|| 2011-05-04 19:12|| Front Page Top

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