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applegrove

(118,492 posts) Tue Jun 7, 2022, 04:40 PM Jun 2022

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Tweet of the Afternoon #2: (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2022 OP

Wow.Dems need to learn how to use data like Reich dies to make their case at the polls Raven123 Jun 2022 #1

62 new "food billionaires" last year underpants Jun 2022 #2

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Raven123

(4,792 posts)

1. Wow.Dems need to learn how to use data like Reich dies to make their case at the polls

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2022, 04:46 PM

Jun 2022

underpants

(182,604 posts)

2. 62 new "food billionaires" last year

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Tue Jun 7, 2022, 06:22 PM

Jun 2022

The overall wealth of food corporations and billionaires swelled by 45% in mere two years to a mammoth $382 billion. This is a direct effect of rising food prices which went up by over 33% in 2021.
And, they could get richer as food prices would rise by another 23% in 2022 - supercharged by the Ukraine war.
Overall, the food industry created 62 new billionaires. The biggest gainer of the food price inflation is the privately owned Cargill Inc from the US - popularly known as ‘the richest people you have never heard of’.

https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/rising-food-prices-made-62-new-food-billionaires-and-the-dynasties-could-get-richer-this-year/articleshow/91738259.cms