Layers of Volatility

Producer prices for onions, crude oil, and corn (January 2000 = 100). Onions are the only one of the three banned from futures trading on all US boards of trade.

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Monthly averages; onions are the PPI for dry onions.

Chart: Ryan McCombSource: BLS producer price indexes, WTI spot via FREDCreated with Datawrapper