Friday Financials: ‘Brinner’ to the rescue!

Rice hoarders. Flour stashers. Payday-loan growers. Five-dollar-bill swindlers.  No, you haven’t entered a time machine. It’s all just the past week in the good ol’ U.S. of A. “It’s fascinating; I don’t recall anything like this in modern food-retailing and supermarket history in the U.S.,” Benjamin Senauer, co-director of the University of Minnesota’s Food Industry Center told the Chicago Tribune. “You have to go back to World War II to see this.” Welcome to WWII and Friday Financials, folks! Here, light shines from the end of the time-warp tunnel.