By now, the technical shortcomings of the Baltic Dry Index of seaborne shipping costs are old hat to anyone with the price of a good newspaper. The index is misleading, its critics agree. Not just that, but it seems to only go down. Following is a note about some competing indices that have actually gone up. To anticipate, 1931 doesn't seem to be on the horizon.

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