Japan in a variety of ways is approaching crisis mode for it's currency and economy. https://www.reuters.com/business/japans-super-long-bond-yields-slide-optim

Japan in a variety of ways is approaching crisis mode for it's currency and economy. https://www.reuters.com/business/japans-super-long-bond-yields-slide-optimism-over-likely-cut-mof-sales-2025-05-27/ https://www.reuters.com/business/japans-super-long-bond-yiel... Japanese monetary policy has been limping along for quite some time now. Decades. Maybe now it is reaching a inflection point were the state is no long able to manipulate things enough to hide the cost of sovereign debt. Food is one of those things were people just can't defer buying because they are worried about current state of the economy. So maybe food prices are where the symptoms of a flagging economy and falling money value are most apparent.