As the US congressional midterm elections enter the 100-day countdown on the 26th, commodity prices, especially food prices, have become one of the key topics influencing voters' votes. Economists have summed up the current price situation in the US as “rockets and feathers”: prices soar like rockets take off, but fall as slowly as feathers.

As the US congressional midterm elections enter the 100-day countdown on the 26th, commodity prices, especially food prices, have become one of the key topics influencing voters' votes. Economists have summed up the current price situation in the US as “rockets and feathers”: prices soar like rockets take off, but fall as slowly as feathers.