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It might seem like prices are rising wherever you look, from medical care to college tuition. Yet to the Federal Reserve, they might not be going up fast enough.
The Fed says a little more inflation might be just the thing to start a chain reaction that would ultimately create jobs - and avoid a spiral of falling prices that could damage the economy.
In a statement Tuesday, the Fed avoided directly mentioning the dreaded word "deflation." But it signaled its concern that today's very low inflation might lead to actual price drops.

World food prices hit a new record high in January after rising for a seventh consecutive month, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Thursday, warning the poor would be hit hardest.

The FAO Food Price Index, which monitors monthly price changes for a basket of commodities, averaged 231 points in January -- up 3.4 percent from December and its highest level since FAO started measuring food prices in 1990.

If you want to drive a rational economic-type of person crazy, simply mimic Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's willful refusal to acknowledge seemingly obvious inflationary trends.

You can start by quoting Dr. Bernanke's observations on the ramp in commodity prices, made Monday night:

"I think the increase will be transitory, that it will pass, and we will go back to a level of inflation that is consistent with our price stability mandate."

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Are precious metals really a good protection of wealth in a hyperinflationary and taxed regime? Does an "inflation tax" wipe out most of the gains one could stand to make by investing in precious metals while a currency collapses? Are additional strategies required to realize appropriate gains from metals speculation?

A mystery meat, which has defied the best efforts of scientists to identify it, has been found in a lamb curry as part of an investigation into food fraud.‘It did contain meat, but that meat was not lamb, not pork, nor was it chicken or beef. Not horse, and not goat either.’ The discovery raises new questions about just what is going into the nation’s takeaways and processed foods. The meat in a Beef in Black Bean Sauce dish turned out to contain high levels of chicken material including blood, while a burger contained no beef at all, other than blood and heart.

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Kitco.com is a website that facilitates the buying and selling of precious metals such as silver, gold and even platinum. The exchange of precious metals is not usually on most people’s radars unless they’re buying jewelry. Yet it’s important to remember that the value of these raw materials extends far beyond their status. The Canadian company was founded in 1977 by Bart Kitner, initially operated from his apartment. Today Kitco has offices in Montreal and New York, as well as a significant Internet foot print.

Analysts said the jump in used car prices partially reflected the government's "Cash for Clunkers" rebate program, which has reduced the stockpile of used vehicles since cars which qualified for that program were junked and therefore not available for resale.

The advance in both new and used car prices accounted for 90 percent of the increase in core inflation last month, government analysts said.