If you’ve been reading recent headlines about coffee prices you might be thinking: what fresh hell is this? We’re being told that, by year’s end, a cup of coffee could cost as much as - wait for it - twelve dollars.

Today, business reporter Jessica Yun, on why the beverage so many of us rely on to cope with each day could soon become a luxury item.

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