| The year 2014 was the worst year for commodities in the past five and one-half years... since 2008 in the Great Recession. Prospects for a recovery in commodities prices are not good: market expectations for inflation over the next ten years has dropped from 2.30 percent last January to 1.55 percent now.
Can economic growth be rising in an environment where commodity prices are falling? Earlier in the current economic recovery, commodities seemed to be the darling of investors because the policy of quantitative easing on the part of the Federal Reserve seemed to spur on dreams, in the short run, of a bubble in commodity prices...............................................Full Article: Source
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