From NPR: Why Coffee Is Getting More Expensive

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Here is an excellent new piece from NPR's always-engaging Planet Money team about the recent upswing in coffee prices.  It echoes several themes I articulate in my recent monograph, Fair Trade? Its Prospects as a Poverty Solution , especially the reasons why short-term coffee prices can be quite volatile.  They even mention that coffee "demand is inelastic!"

August 23 - The price of coffee beans hit a 12-year high today. I thought there might be some kind of...