When thinking about real world “tail risks” few are more frightening than food shortages and famine. Aside from the obvious direct implications, they tend to be the catalysts behind most socio-political uprisings throughout history. It is not oversimplifying to state that “price stability” or “inflation targeting”, as the core premise of central banking, boils down to this basic issue. If only they could keep that in their sights. Figure 1: UN Food and Agriculture World Price Index Source: Bloomberg The implications of the long manipulation of the global economic sandpile and its inevitable transition towards its critical state, could rightly…