Consumer columnist and West Hartford resident Harlan Levy has more than 20 years of experience writing stories about everyday experiences that anyone could encounter.

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By Harlan Levy

I love my morning coffee, a Nespresso decaf, and feel less able to greet the day without it. So I found it distressing to learn the Consumer Price Index’s recent news: Coffee prices climbed nearly 21% in August over year-ago prices, the largest jump since the 1990s. That news also spotlight’s President Trump’s 50% tariff on Brazil – the reason for which, Trump said, was a “witch hunt” against former president and now-convicted Jair Bolsonaro, who attempted a coup to overturn the election – and 20% tariff on Vietnam, the world’s largest coffee exporters, and also 10% on exports fro

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