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Your Full English Breakfast is Getting Cheaper!

Geoff Riley

11th September 2015

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Grain stocks are at a twenty-nine year high, world coffee prices have dropped by nearly 30% and global prices for pork, sugar and milk are also well down from where there were six years ago.

Little wonder that the average (notional) price of a full-English breakfast has fallen significantly in recent times as this rather lovely FT graphic shows!

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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