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Food prices have gone up! Food prices are too high! Food prices are out of line! All these and many other comments have filled the air recently. Since we buy food so often and since it is a major; budget, we notice changes in prices of it very quickly. ; There isn’t any question that prices have gone up recently. Possible causes of this have been debated widely and without much success so far as pinpointing them is concerned. So, let's leave this statement to the debaters and examine the other statements more carefully. Are food prices too high?! This reminds me of the person! who once told me that he had! quite a specific philosophy concerning prices. So, I asked| him what it was. This was his; answer: "The price on any-1 thing I have to sell Is always' 10 percent too low and the price on anything I have toj buy is 10 percent too high.* No matter what the price is, it is too high or too low, depending on whether we are! buying or selling. Actually, I often think we I might be better off to talk of
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