At the time some said that the upstream cause of the Arab Spring was increased food prices. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/world/july-dec11/food_09-07.htm

At the time some said that the upstream cause of the Arab Spring was increased food prices. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/world/july-dec11/food_09-07.html http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/world/july-dec11/food_09... More controversially, some blamed this on the Fed's inflationary QE2 policy (printing money), as food prices went up across the world in real terms. In the US this was an inconvenience, but abroad it was something else. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8492078/How-the-Fed-triggered-the-Arab-Spring-uprisings-in-two-easy-graphs.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8492078/How-the...