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Some States Are Targeting a Tactic Corporations Use to Raise Your Grocery Prices

Companies are using personal data to set individualized prices for customers, a ploy known as surveillance pricing.

https://murica.website/2026/03/some-states-are-targeting-a-tactic-corporations-use-to-raise-your-grocery-prices/

Some States Are Targeting a Tactic Corporations Use to Raise Your Grocery Prices – The USA Potato

War on Iran sparks global fertilizer shortage, threatens food prices http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRkTfr #IranWar #FertilizerShortage #FoodPrices #GlobalTrade #OilMarket

Sojourner00 1d ago

Trump is costing you money in every way possible. USPS to reportedly impose first-ever 8% fuel surcharge on packages, beginning in April
#tarifftaxes #electricity #pollution #foodprices #gasprices #affordability

https://tinyurl.com/3jdp3ee8

CBC Top Stories 2d ago

Cuban health-care workers struggle to support the sick amid U.S. oil embargo
Young health-care providers at Havana’s Cardiology Institute describe a double-whammy of desperation in their work and private lives. They're anxious about what the future holds since a U.S. oil embargo in January led to dramatic fuel shortages in Cuba, along with soaring food prices and nationwide power outages.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-health-care-us-oil-embargo-9.7141080?cmp=rss

CBC Health 2d ago

Cuban health-care workers struggle to support the sick amid U.S. oil embargo
Young health-care providers at Havana’s Cardiology Institute describe a double-whammy of desperation in their work and private lives. They're anxious about what the future holds since a U.S. oil embargo in January led to dramatic fuel shortages in Cuba, along with soaring food prices and nationwide power outages.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-health-care-us-oil-embargo-9.7141080?cmp=rss

Iran allows ‘non-hostile’ ships to pass through Strait of Hormuz | The wRap

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/march-25-2026/

Iran allows ‘non-hostile’ ships to pass through Strait of Hormuz | The wRap

Today’s headlines: War on Iran, price hike, Sara impeachment

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UniversidadxClima 3d ago

“Standard trade models underestimate the impact because they miss the bottleneck mechanism: energy disruptions cascade through chemicals and fertilizer production into food prices, amplifying losses for the world’s poorest countries.”

Kiel Policy Brief #KielInstitute

Authors Hinz J. Mahlkow H. Sogalla R. Willmann G.

#EnergySecurity #FoodPrices #Geoeconomics
Emerging Markets & Developing Countries

International Trade

https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3mhuu2ta2ds2e

Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social)

“Standard trade models underestimate the impact because they miss the bottleneck mechanism: energy disruptions cascade through chemicals and fertilizer production into food prices, amplifying losses for the world’s poorest countries.” https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/the-cost-of-closing-the-strait-of-hormuz-energy-bottlenecks-and-global-food-security-19613/

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KAPUALabs 3d ago

Strikes on critical energy facilities like South Pars don't just make headlines—they empty gas cylinders in Dhaka and double fertilizer costs in Punjab. This analysis traces how infrastructure warfare creates global food price shocks. https://post.kapualabs.com/2p8betfj #EnergyInfrastructure #FoodPrices #GlobalSupplyChains