Current commodity prices are in a world-wide uptrend for several reasons. When looking at commodity spot prices, the trend is undeniably clear: commodity prices are rising.

There are two primary driving forces that are fueling the consistent, across-the-board rise in nearly all commodity prices: currency debasement and consistently rising demand. As central banks around the world combat the global financial crisis with "quantitative easing," also known as printing money out of thin air, the values of those paper currencies are dropping. This shows up as rising prices for most commodities.

It's not that the prices of commodities are rising per se, but that it takes more and more of a debased currency to purchase the same quantity of commodities with a currency that is losing its value.

There is also the increased demand for commodities that is a very strong factor is their rising price. Biofuel has greatly added to the demand side of the equation. the development of a middle class in China has increased the demand for commodities across the board, from iron ore and coking coal, to crude oil and natural gas, to wheat, corn, coffee, sugar and oats.

The powerful combination of rising global demand and various currencies around the world being regularly debased has propelled current commodity prices consistently higher.

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