Makes me $oft for the purcha$e, if you know what I mean, and quite a$hamed about it, too:
"In 2014, coffee prices percolated
WASHINGTON — Sellers of America’s favorite energy source, crude oil, had a rough year, with prices falling off a cliff. But the nation’s second-favorite energy source — coffee — has seen prices jump, making it the best-performing commodity of 2014. Droughts that hit the coffee belts sent the price of beans soaring: bad news for drinkers and diners but great news for investors, according to data from the financial-visualization service FinViz. The benchmark contract for 37,500 pounds of Arabica beans traded for about $1.68 a pound Wednesday, up from about $1.20 at the start of the year, according to ICE Futures. For futures traders, coffee was a better bet than gold, silver, or platinum — and far more energizing than crude, heating oil, and natural gas, which rounded out the three worst-performing commodities of the year. So why was coffee priced so high? Drought in Brazil and a fungus in Central America crimped the world’s supplies for much of the year. But rainfall returned to Brazil last month, raising expectations for this year’s crop."
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