Food prices are soaring. Oil prices are at historic highs.

Oil prices are soaring, as are Putin s approval ratings.

Before 2007, banks enjoyed high returns and soaring stock prices.

Soaring energy prices, for example, have become a leading inflation risk.

Russia s government has banned wheat exports, sending world grain prices soaring.

Until now, three critical factors helped the world weather soaring oil prices.

When home prices were soaring, the geniuses behind mortgage finance seemed infallible.

NEW YORK Around the world, protests against soaring food and fuel prices are mounting.

Currently, the Maghreb countries suffer from soaring unemployment, poverty, and high prices for basic commodities.

In the eurozone, stock prices are soaring, while joblessness is at a record high 12.2 .

Though oil prices have been dampened for now, a robust recovery could send them soaring again.

Of course, there is no glee in seeing stock prices tumble as a result of soaring mortgage defaults.

Lee also must confront factors beyond his control, such as soaring oil prices and the global credit crunch.

To add insult to injury, food and medicine prices are soaring. According to The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)

Soaring oil and gas prices have made Russia more powerful, less co operative, and less interested in joining the West.

Since 2000, prices have been on an upward trajectory, with soaring demand only briefly interrupted by the 2008 financial crisis.

Thus, soaring food and fuel prices are likely to upset efforts by governments to improve income distribution and social cohesion.

Soaring food prices before the global financial crisis provided a warning, as does the slowing rate of growth of agricultural productivity.

In addition to the usual grievances under a brutal regime, Syrians were reeling from a massive drought and soaring food prices.

By the same token, soaring energy prices shifted purchasing power from the United States and Europe to oil exporters, who, recognizing the volatility of energy prices, rightly saved much of this income.

The massive wall of liquidity that has resulted has triggered inflation, sent real estate prices soaring, and fueled a sharp rise in debt.

There are rumors that Sechin s clan has designs on Russia s Stabilization Fund, which soaring energy prices have pumped up to over 140 billion.

In response to an attack, Iran might well seek to obstruct shipping in the Persian Gulf, potentially triggering oil shortages and soaring prices.

Soaring food and fuel prices and major natural disasters played an important role in undermining financial markets, household purchasing power, and even political stability.

The EU s ad hoc 1 billion Food Facility, created in 2008 for rapid response to soaring food prices in developing countries, is a good example.

For example, food prices are increasing alongside soaring oil prices, partly because of increased production costs, but also because farmland in the United States and elsewhere is being converted from food production to bio fuel production.

Many central bankers and economists argue that today s rising global inflation is just a temporary aberration, driven by soaring prices for food, fuel, and other commodities.

The historical failure named Iraq war, the demise of secular Arab nationalism and the soaring oil and gas prices have wrought profound changes in the region.

With food prices now soaring, most of Asia s working poor, who are already struggling on degraded lands, in sweatshops, on streets and at homes, risk further destitution.

With China s wages soaring and rising oil prices driving up shipping costs, production in Mexico is suddenly looking much more attractive, even taking security concerns into account.

That is why commodity prices will just keep soaring until world growth slows down long enough for new supply and new conservation options to catch up with demand.

During the mid to late 1990s, Ford continued to sell large numbers of vehicles, in a booming American economy with a soaring stock market and low fuel prices.

In an era in which stock and housing prices are soaring, the central banks of Japan and China are holding almost two trillion dollars worth of low interest bonds.

They are not the ones who will be blamed for soaring prices, nor are they the ones who will have to force the inflation genie back into the bottle.

The current system underpins Spain s soaring unemployment rate.

Asia s developing economies are soaring, with 9.4 growth.

And the soaring palm trees , with clustered dates .

And the soaring palm trees , with clustered dates .

Of course, it should be noted that if economic reform in resource rich Africa had been proceeding at the same pace as in Asia, the era of soaring commodity prices might have been postponed for another century.

The period of wage moderation may be coming to an end, warns Otmar Issing, the ECB s chief economist, implying that soaring energy prices may now be feeding through into the overall price level (so called second round effects ).

The global economy seems to be walking on water, shrugging off soaring oil prices, policy paralysis in Europe, unsustainable borrowing by the United States, and record housing prices. Is it because, as G 8 leaders would have us believe, investors are in a buoyant mood, confident in their leaders stewardship of the global economy?

Soaring house prices worldwide are propping up consumer demand in many countries, and, according to a recent study by the International Monetary Fund, continually falling long term interest rates explain two thirds or more of the global price rise.

Developing countries currently face higher rates of inflation not because of poorer macro management, but because oil and food prices are soaring, and these items represent a much larger share of the average household budget than in rich countries.

Yes, the soaring deficits may contribute somewhat to international financial instability.

Yet headline inflation is soaring, and, not surprisingly, gets the headlines.