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We ask from the heart that supermarkets, which are now more profitable and selling more, help us to take care of the pocketbook of the people by not raising prices.

I have always fought for farmers getting better prices.

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

When the time comes to raise rates, I do think there will be some benefits that flow through to savers.

Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get.

To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.